[woliveirajr]

> Back in the bad old days of Linux, you could easily damage your monitor with the wrong xorg.conf settings

You could also damage a floppy drive making it read/write, for many times, few sectors outer the common limits. Being there, done that.

But after so many discussions on online forums that it was impossible to cause physical damage using software (other than overwriting firmwares), I gave up and kept this (and the asm code) deep inside my heart.

And bringing it up still gives me chills that those discussions will return right now...

[koytch]

Sounds close to

http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/W/walking-drives.html