A BDU's is born every minute ...

Sridhar Ayengar ploopster at gmail.com
Thu Oct 20 10:00:20 CDT 2005


Paul Koning wrote:
>>>>>>"Scott" == Scott Stevens <chenmel at earthlink.net> writes:
> 
> 
>  Scott> Back when I experienced my first 'high speed' CDROM drive,
>  Scott> which was on my new work computer, I heard the humming as the
>  Scott> CD spun up and thought 'hmmm.'
> 
>  Scott> Then I started adding progressively more scotch tape to a spot
>  Scott> on a CD to throw it off balance and investigate the noise
>  Scott> level produced.
> 
> I ran into that when I loaded a CD with a stick-on label.
> 
> That's when I discovered that *everyone* except the manufacturers of
> that junk says that you should NOT put labels on CDs.  And I no longer
> do; if I get one I peel it off.

I was able to get a CD unbalanced by putting too much ink on it from a 
Sharpie.  It didn't come apart, it just made a lot of noise.

Peace...  Sridhar


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