Stupid Hack #1

To get an idea of the kinds of "Stupid Hax" we are talking about, I'll start you out with this one.

A friend of mine wanted to know what would happen if you ran a RAM tester, such as MemTest86+, in a virtual machine. So after firing up a new virtual machine in VMWare Server on my Windows 7 Desktop and mounting an Ubuntu disk with Memtest on it, this was the result.


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Nothing too exiting, but Memtest does indeed run and test the virtual RAM allocated to the virtual machine.

What would it have meant if it was showing errors in my virtual RAM? I don't think I really want to know the answer to that...



P.S. If anyone likes what they see here, and has any suggestions for some "Stupid Hax" they would like to see attempted, feel free to comment and give me some suggestions!

Welcome to the Stupid Hax blog!

This blog site is dedicated to all those strange and stupid hacks you may have pondered about while bored, but quickly realized how silly the outcome would actually be.

While, clearly having too much free time on my hands every once in a while, some of those hacks have come to life, and I will document them here.

Enjoy!


*** DISCLAIMER ***
*** Warning!! Not all hacks listed here are pointlessly stupid! Some have actually turned out quite useful! ***