Comes now the requisite warning about children playing with war toys.
As the say, and they are right, you only have to see the impact of this
stuff on a human body once to understand the gravity of it.
It really ain’t a game. Best to make that distinction somewhere in your
back-and-forth.
Bob Loewer
Senior Principal Investigator
Sparta, Inc.
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From: “Jamey Kirby”
To: “NT Developers Interest List”
Sent: Friday, April 13, 2001 12:51 PM
Subject: [ntdev] RE: [NTDEV][WINXP]Cherry bombs, Verifier and XP …
> Not a very good cherry bomb if it went out. All of my cherry bombs had
waxed
> fuses and did quite well under water.
>
> Of course, I always thought I could make a better “cracker” than those for
> sale at ‘South of the Border’, so I set out to make the ultimate
“cracker”.
>
> - Steel box (about the size of a packet of cigs).
> - small hole (large enough to fill it with the powder from 5 16 gauge
> shells).
> - What to do with the buck-shot? Pour that in too to create shrapnel.
> - Insert a long fuse in the hole.
> - Wrapped the box in a whole roll of duct tape to cap the hole.
>
> Well, I lit it and the fuse burned a perfect exhaust hole through the
tape.
> Remember those flowering “crackers” than spin on the ground making all
sorts
> of colors? Well, this puppy was that plus some (10 fold).
>
> When that baby got lit, it took off in the air sponging and whistling…
All
> the while spraying buck-shot all over the place. Panic issued, people
> ducking. I think I hid behind the large BBQ in the back yard until it was
> over. Windows broken, doors with holes; needless to say, my parents we
none
> too happy.
>
> Sometimes I feel the same when debugging some of my drivers.
>
> Jamey
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: xxxxx@lists.osr.com
> > [mailto:xxxxx@lists.osr.com]On Behalf Of Gary Little
> > Sent: Friday, April 13, 2001 9:01 AM
> > To: NT Developers Interest List
> > Subject: [ntdev] [NTDEV][WINXP]Cherry bombs, Verifier and XP …
> >
> >
> > When I was a kid in the '50s, growing up among the mesquite trees in
West
> > Texas, every summer us kids would look forward to the 4th of
> > July. We’d plan
> > on how we’d use the firecrackers, that’s what we called fire
> > works, to blow
> > up this or that, or scare someone. And there was always talk of how to
get
> > the super bango boomer … the atomic bomb … those little round balls
of
> > concentrated destruction. The one’s that rumor said some high
> > school student
> > used to blow out every toilette in the high school. Oh yeah! A
> > Cherry bomb!
> >
> > Well one year we got one of those Cherry Bombs. Oh man were we gonna
make
> > some noise. We had it all planned. Yup, we were gonna blow up some
> > toilettes. Damn straight! Gushers of water would inundate that little
town
> > of Andrews, Texas. We huddled over that white throne, placing the bomb
on
> > the toilette seat … lighting the match … setting it to the fuse …
> > tipping it … flushing the commode and then running like hell so we
> > wouldn’t get drowned…
> >
> > There was no bang … Andrews never recorded the great flood of
> > '56, and we
> > learned about disappointment, and that lit fuses and water don’t mix.
> >
> > Disappointment continues into the middle age years when you dutifully
> > install Whistler, build 2462, to catch some bugs. Yessir … I was gonna
> > stomp a big gushy one … but the fuse on my cherry bomb hit the water
and
> > fizzled. I told WinDbg to break into the target … went to the command
> > window … typed in “!verifier 0xf” and watched the fuse go out when
> > verifier replied
> >
> > “8017ee20: Unable to get verifier list”
> >
> > Windows XP, Whistler build 2462
> > Global flag Pool Tagging enabled
> > Driver Verifier enabled settings
> > Special pool
> > Pool tracking
> > Force IRQL checking
> > Deadlock detection
> >
> > Why can’t verifier find it’s own “verifier list”? There are times
> > when I hate computers.
> >
> > (Hey … I could have just gotten on and bitched.)
> >
> > Gary
> >
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