Oh man, this reminds me of my "party trick" back in the day of saying I could tell what OS a computer was running by listening to the HDD seeking. The good old days

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VTimofeenko 4 hours ago | parent [-]

You can't just drop this without examples. What OSes and what were their tells?

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numpad0 4 hours ago | parent [-]

It's not something that can be easily written out in text form. More like a pronounced version of how an iPhone feels when you're force rebooting.

	▲	VTimofeenko 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Not an iPhone person, however when I force shutdown a laptop I am hacking away on, I do feel like I am strangling it with a pillow to ease it's suffering. But that feeling comes purely from my side, the machine shows no signs of life at that point anyway. Are you referring to something like the GPRS staccato coming from speakers catching a cell phone call or the almost imperceptible flyback whine of a CRT?