Subj : Rhythm Nation would crash some laptops
To   : All
From : Warpslide
Date : Fri Aug 19 2022 09:04:36

While many people love Janet Jackson's "Rhythm Nation", some PCs
aren't really a fan.

According to Microsoft principal software engineer Raymond Chen's blog, The 
Old New Thing, some older Windows XP-era laptops would crash when playing the 
music video for the Jackson song due to a certain sound.

Chen says the company discovered the song had a sound in it that caused a 
specific model of the laptop's hard drive to crash. The soundwaves would 
cause the hard drive to vibrate, crashing the device. The manufacturer sort 
of fixed the issue by making it so that model of the computer couldn't play 
that specific frequency.

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Jay

.... What did the nut say when it sneezed?  Ca-shew!

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