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

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