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Monday 22 October 2007

WARNING: Hacking your startup tune can have bad effects!

OMG this is funny!!!

5 comments:

Malachy said...

Oh well, it could have been worse - Looped hampster dance :o

Colonel Panic said...

no don't you mean the badger song? That would of been hilarious...
BADGER BADGER BADGER BADGER BADGER BADGER BADGER BADGER BADGER BADGER BADGER BADGER MUSHROOM, MUSHROOM... AAHHHHHH ITS A SNAKE!!! AAHHHH ITS A SNAKE!!! -- sorry its just my startup tune...looping!!! LOL

TheguywholikeselectronicsandLinux said...

but if it was looped it would go on for ages, that would be funny!

Colonel Panic said...

Back to the real point though-

I'm surprised that man managed to hack his startup tune in that way, as because he was using a mac, the *dauingg* startup tune that you normally hear is hard-programmed into the ROM chip on the motherboard. I know this because even if there's a crippled/corrupt/non-existent system it still does the startup tune, perfectly well. So what I'm guessing he must of done is muted the built-in startup tune (you can do that with some program that I forget the name of) and laid on an extra software-based tune, which is the one you hear. Or it could of been just a cool prank, and someone was hiding in the curtains with a ghetto blaster, and when he saw him start up is computer he turned on that sound!!! Another point about the mac startup sound: It sounds JUST LIKE the opening of a song called 'Nothing Compares To You'. Sounds like just the sort of thing any I-think-the-sun-shines-out-of-Steve-Job's-Ass person would say!!! *Turning mac on: Nothing compares to you, doiunggggg!!!* I'M LOLLING AGAIN!!!! LOL!

Malachy said...

Well fela, this is mentioned in http://musicthing.blogspot.com/2005/05/tiny-music-makers-pt-4-mac-startup.html

Makes interesting reading.