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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