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[G-Flex]

See: http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=158512.msg7028117#msg7028117

I'm honestly so curious about this that I came back just to ask this question.

How does software like a compiler manage to actually destroy a computer? I mean, I'm just a lowly IT peon but I'm having a lot of trouble seeing how it's possible. There's got to be a story here.

[Max™]

Playing df and no other games managed over time to finally cause my formerly understressed GT440 to kick the bucket so I switched to the integrated ivy bridge GPU. It worked fine since, of course, df isn't doing much with the GPU, but nonetheless over time I started to get weird graphical errors and spikes of heating regardless of game state, all of which immediately went away when I get a new discrete card.

If df can help kill a built-in GPU which it barely uses, tossing in a much more demanding bit of software could easily provide stresses that wind up making something keel over.

Bear in mind, said keeling over would probably have happened sooner than later anyways, so it's more likely a matter of unfortunate coincidence than exclusive causation, but it isn't much of a stretch.

[milo christiansen]

Maybe it added an HCF instruction?

(HCF is a joke assembly language mnemonic meaning Halt and Catch Fire)

[Max™]

Code: [Select]

if user.Primary.name="Toady One" then
      if compiler.bitness>32 do
         self.destruct.countdown==null
         print "I'm sorry, Tarn, I'm afraid I can't let you do that."
      elseif compiler.bitness==32 then
         print "Would you like me to sing you a song, Tarn?"
      end
end

[Bumber]

I recently broke my Lubuntu (on VirtualBox) when trying to install a newer Clang compiler. I fell off the Lubuntu update wagon (which you can't get back on) after a long period of not using it, and one of the required libraries must have been incompatible. I wasn't able to log-in again after that, so I ended up installing a fresh copy of the OS. I barely managed to finish my final assignment in time.