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  2. Head crash - Wikipedia

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    A head crash in a modern drive. Note circular scratch mark on the platter. A head crash. A head crash is a hard-disk failure that occurs when a read–write head of a hard disk drive makes contact with its rotating platter, slashing its surface and permanently damaging its magnetic media. It is most often caused by a sudden severe motion of the ...

  3. Hard disk drive failure - Wikipedia

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    Read/write head from circa-1998 Fujitsu 3.5" hard disk (approx. 2.0 mm x 3.0 mm) Microphotograph of an older generation hard disk drive head and slider (1990s) Noises from an old hard drive while attempting to read data from bad sectors. During normal operation, heads in HDDs fly above the data recorded on the disks.

  4. List of computing mascots - Wikipedia

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    A monkey head [61] Syft: Syft, free and open-source software bill-of-materials command-line tool and Go library: A cute cartoon owl [62] Tux: Linux kernel, a free and open-source monolithic Unix-like computer operating system kernel that has been included in many OS distributions: A cartoon anthropomorphic penguin [63] [1] Tizen Genie

  5. Scanners - Wikipedia

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    The exploding head scene was filmed four times, but Cronenberg accepted the first shot and did not remain to watch the three others, opting to instead take a nap in his Winnebago. The scene depicting the exploding head was trimmed down to allow for a R-rating from the MPAA. Cronenberg originally intended for the scene to be the film's opening ...

  6. 2024 Lebanon electronic device attacks - Wikipedia

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    Brian Finucane, an adviser at the International Crisis Group and a Non-Resident Senior Fellow at the NYU School of Law, noted that the Law of War Manual gives "exploding WWII-era communications headsets" as a specific example of prohibited booby traps, but also noted that "the United States submitted an understanding to Amended Protocol II that ...

  7. The Boys Whose Head Exploded - Wikipedia

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    The Boys Whose Head Exploded is a rare live performances bootleg compilation by English post-punk band The Pop Group, released on 27 May 2016 through Freaks R Us. [2]

  8. 'Exploding head syndrome' occurs more frequently than ... - AOL

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    A disorder known as 'exploding head syndrome' has been found to be far more common among young people than previously believed, affecting nearly 1 in 5 of those studied. The condition causes ...

  9. Avatar (computing) - Wikipedia

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    [2] [3] It was first used in a computer game by the 1979 PLATO role-playing game Avatar. In Norman Spinrad's novel Songs from the Stars (1980), the term avatar is used in a description of a computer generated virtual experience. In the story, humans receive messages from an alien galactic network that wishes to share knowledge and experience ...