Here's our first video from our new series with Raymond Chen, .
We asked him to tell us about the mystery wherein some music would crash a laptop!!??
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Tell us about the time some music crashed a laptop
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What song do you think crashed the laptops? (Answer coming next week in Raymond's blog devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/)
- Tie a Yellow Ribbon18.6%
- Happy Birthday to you11.6%
- Rhythm Nation25.3%
- Ice Ice Baby44.4%
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Raymond Chen has now posted a new article with more details on this musical mishap that crashed a laptop.
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Almost synonymous to captain crunch's take over of phone lins using Cereal Box Whistle
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Not at all. The phone network at the time used tones as a signaling mechanism. The whistle exactly matched one of the frequencies used to generate control tones.
The HDD didn't have a command interface driven by audio frequencies; no "designed interface" was triggered.
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Must be HDD.
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Well, the audio filter won‘t fix the problem, if you‘re honest. It’s just a hotfix. If some competitor‘s notebook is not vulnerable (or other devices) and plays that frequency, you‘re still screwed.
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