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"Sht Dwn Plz"

Friday, July 28, 2006 at 4:22 PM

It's been a long time since something in the IT world has made me smile. Between DRM, lawsuits and general irratation coming from working with computers for a living I've got used to IT being frustrating.

But this definitely got a grin from me:

Dell Turned Off by Text

Very funny... essentially, it appears that a guy managed to get a Dell GX520 to switch off simply by having a phone sitting close to it - and having the phone recieve a text. It's not just one person who's had this either - one person's even taken a video of the experience.

Now, I admit this could be a wind up. But it didn't stop us trying this at work on the GX520 we've been evaluating.

The result: the GX520 didn't turn off. It didn't get affected at all.

This could've been due to a number of factors:

The phone used to recieve the text (mine) was low on battery and perhaps was using lower power to send and recieve (does this even happen? I've no idea)
The phone used was operating in the wrong frequency range (Orange's) to create the issue
It's a rare issue
Our GX520 is a one-off lead-cased beast
This whole thing is a load of balls.

Either way, we're going to try it again on Monday with 10 phones. I'll let you know the result...

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