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Subject: Re: How to make Fritz be quiet... (Re: Hiarcs 7.32 & The Elusive Manual)

Author: Shep

Date: 01:29:08 06/16/99

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On June 15, 1999 at 22:31:07, Dave Gomboc wrote:


>>P.S. There is an alternative solution (though not nearly as interesting as
>>melting the damn thing's plastic guts) consisting of turning the talk off.
>
>Find a cafeteria at a local university with a beater microwave and heat up the
>CD for a few (I mean few!) seconds.  I have seen this done -- not pretty, but
>pretty funny. :)

Or try the opposite: put your CD in the fridge overnight.
This will not destroy it, though, but in fact increase the audio quality of the
chatter (this is still a debated issue among HiFi enthusiasts, but many claim
this little trick actually does work).
However, no guarantees as to how this might affect program data... :)

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Shep




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