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Computer Randomly Plays Classical Music
11417 days
Amazing news but totally true... And of course the Operating System that has this strange "problem" is... Windows! At least they have corrected it in versions XP+
Apparently when you are using safe mode in any version older than XP, seemingly at random, a piece of classical music starts playing. The two songs they have are "Fur Elise" or "It's a Small, Small World". The real reason though is that the BIOS has detected a fan failure. It is actually a design feature of a detection circuit and system BIOSes developed by Award/Unicore from 1997 on.
You can check out Microsoft's support page on this problem. Weirdly enough they have tried to cover it under the tags "kbhardware, kbinfo, and KB261186"... Probably to avoid being found.
It is a fun easter egg I'd be just amazed to have it happen to me... 
If you ever experienced it, comment!
An Open Letter For Open Drivers To NVIDIA
01417 days
AMD and Intel both now support open-source video drivers and release their programming specifications to the OSS community. Let's get NVIDIA to do this too!
A really good idea, and for the linux community it will be even better I guess, for all those Linux free licensing, no copyright, open source, -lovers. At last we won't see again the dialog "Do you want to use restricted drivers?"