On Tue, 2012-06-05 at 18:34 -0400, Jeremy wrote: > What can I do to use up my laptop battery as fast as possible? I am > breaking in an external powerpack on a netbook... playing a video is not > fast enough lol. > > I want something that will just keep going until it is dead. > > dd if=/dev/random of=/dev/null ? > > Jeremy
Plug in as many useless USB peripherals as you can find! Or if you really want to waste some power solder a low-value resistor to a USB connector (across pins 1 and 4) and plug it in (the lowest you could safely go would be 10 Ohm, >2.5W). Good luck, nick _______________________________________________ mlug mailing list [email protected] https://listes.koumbit.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-listserv.mlug.ca
