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"Your display is broken? Oh, you installed cygwin? Sorry, you're on your own: we don't support cygwin" Mostly joking but how far fetched is it to speculate s
by sequoia 14y ago
"Your display is broken? Oh, you installed cygwin? Sorry, you're on your own: we don't support cygwin"
Mostly joking but how far fetched is it to speculate such a thing, given that they are denying display service due to OS install? bittorrent clients can be quite hard on HDDs, I've heard, furthermore illegal torrents are purportedly full of malware which could "damage your computer"; can they reject a defective HDD claim if you have uTorrent installed?
- sliverstorm 14y agoThis used to happen with automobiles. It's called the Magnuson-Moss Act.
- smackfu 14y agoHeh, wasn't THAT long ago that setting up your CRT monitor for Linux involved a lot of scary stuff about using invalid frequencies that could cause damage.
- dexen 14y agoOnly relevant on exceptionally old and broken hardware. Any decent CRT or LCD provides http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EDID http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EDID which lists both standard and non-standard modelines and frequency range. X.org takes that into account, unless you override it by hand. Also, the display will shut itself down if driven over threshold. On the other hand, any software will happily let bad hardware kill itself, if not customized for particular hardware kink. I had a Linux apparently kill a 2.5'' HDD. Turns out OEM configured the drive to unload heads very often, probably to produce impressive power savings -_-' After about one or two years constantly power-on, the drive accumulated its rated number (~500'000) of unloads and died.