{"id":821,"date":"2004-04-29T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2004-04-29T20:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/archives\/2004\/04\/29\/computer-guy-donts-tilting-a-pc\/"},"modified":"2004-04-29T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2004-04-29T20:00:00","slug":"computer-guy-donts-tilting-a-pc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/2004\/04\/29\/computer-guy-donts-tilting-a-pc\/","title":{"rendered":"Computer Guy Don&#8217;ts: tilting a PC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Don&#8217;t tip a computer that has a CD spinning in the drive. The resulting gyroscopic perturbations will do bad things to the CD in the drive.<\/p>\n<p>I was re-installing XP on a newish Dell 2400. The XP product activation code is written on the side of the PC. So when I needed the code, (the computer was sitting on the floor and I was in a chair) I tilted the case. The resulting noise sounded like a circular saw that was trying to cut through a piece of wood that was just too thick. Once the CD came to it&#8217;s (literally) grinding halt, I took it out and found a long circular gash in the disc.<\/p>\n<p>So I&#8217;ve spent an hour with a Skip Doctor, trying to read the disc. No luck yet but I think I&#8217;ll get it eventually. Feh!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Don&#8217;t tip a computer that has a CD spinning in the drive. The resulting gyroscopic perturbations will do bad things to the CD in the drive. I was re-installing XP on a newish Dell 2400. The XP product activation code is written on the side of the PC. So when I needed the code, (the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/821\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}