Re: I found an even easier way to crash CMUCL 19c/19f on FreeBSD 7.1


have you tried removing the battery and just powering it from the mains ?
No, because I don't see how removing the battery would allow
shut-down to finish so that it can *recogize* it's off and thereby
allow itself to then be turned on again. But if you honestly
believe removing the battery will allow it to finish the orderly
shut-down, and can convince me as to why you believe that, I'd be
willing to try removing the battery.
From: Robert Swindells <r...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
You could start reading up on SMBus on Wikipedia, or you could just
try it.

I could try all sorts of silly things people suggest that don't
seem to have any reasonable bearing on the desired outcome. But
right now I don't have time to try anything like that. I'm probably
going to wait until I have http://TinyURL.Com/TruFut up&running as
part of http://TinyURL.Com/NewEco and then post a "rumor" that
removing the battery will fix the problem, see what percentage
likelihood people give for your trick to succeed. Then if people
rate it more than 30% likely to succeed, I'll give it a royal try,
and finalize the truth-value per the result, so some people will
lose funds and others will gain funds.

How many people do you expect to visit your website who have built
laptops ?

Let me ask you: If you were to make a wager on success of your
suggestion, what percentage chance of success would you book? For
example, if somebody were selling futures at 30%, would you pay
that price because you believe the chance of success is large than
30%, or not? Or if somebody else were willing to buy at 70%, would
you sell-short at 70% because you'd rate the chance of success is
less than 70% so you could make a 70% profit when your idea turned
out to fail so the closing value was 0% and you could buy-back your
short-holdings at 0%?

In the time taken to type your post you could have tried what I
suggested. I would put the chance of success quite high, from knowing
how laptops work and from having had the same problem myself, it also
has zero risk.

... look for a different external modem that somebody else doesn't
need anymore, with the correct cable for your laptop, and use that.

I have no idea where to look that would have a reasonable chance of
success.

Where would you propose I look near downtown Sunnyvale?

George Neuner suggested finding a local computer user group to help
setup the software on your machines, the people there would be the
sort of people to ask if they had one.

You could also put a wanted ad on Craigslist for "External modem with
9 pin cable".

I have at least three old modems here, I'm not going to advertize
them anywhere since hardly anyone would want them.
.

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