Retrieving emails from a dead server's hard drive

[Giles Orr]

2010/1/5 William O'Higgins Witteman <william.ohiggins-H217xnMUJC0sA/PxXw9srA at public.gmane.org>:
> On Tue, Jan 05, 2010 at 04:31:34PM -0500, James Knott wrote:
>>William O'Higgins Witteman wrote:
>>>(For interest's sake, when I could get the machine to POST it beeps,
>>>launches into the BIOS, and then the screen goes squizzy.)
>>Does it actually go squizzy?  Or just mooshy?  ;-)
>
> Entertainingly, it goes squizzy - the predominant BIOS background
> colours are retained, but the screen devolves into small repeating
> blocks of semi-random ick.  I would characterize mooshy as
> multi-coloured snow.  I've never seen squizzy before.
>
> (Perhaps we need a nomative taxonomy for video failure modes :-)

An excellent idea - and for the edification of all of us, I think you
should post a video so we may all know what "squizzy" looks like.  It
sounds entertaining.

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