{"id":486079,"date":"2022-08-19T17:58:54","date_gmt":"2022-08-19T14:58:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/why-janet-jackson-made-laptops-crash\/"},"modified":"2022-08-19T17:58:54","modified_gmt":"2022-08-19T14:58:54","slug":"why-janet-jackson-made-laptops-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/why-janet-jackson-made-laptops-crash\/","title":{"rendered":"#Why Janet Jackson made laptops crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_88 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6ad02d1d656c5\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6ad02d1d656c5\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/why-janet-jackson-made-laptops-crash\/#%E2%80%9CWhy_Janet_Jackson_made_laptops_crash%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Why Janet Jackson made laptops crash&#8221;<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-2' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/why-janet-jackson-made-laptops-crash\/#Greetings_tech_nerd\" >Greetings, tech nerd!<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/why-janet-jackson-made-laptops-crash\/#So_why_did_the_song_cause_computers_to_crash\" >So why did the song cause computers to crash?<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/why-janet-jackson-made-laptops-crash\/#Not_an_isolated_incident\" >Not an isolated incident<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CWhy_Janet_Jackson_made_laptops_crash%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Why Janet Jackson made laptops crash&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<div id=\"article-main-content\">\n                            <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Gen Xers and boomers will remember the musical powerhouse that was Janet Jackson in the late 1980s. But now her music has been found to have a new power \u2014 it can crash laptops.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This week Microsoft chief software engineer Raymond Chen <\/span><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20220816-00\/?p=106994?utm_source=tldrnewsletter\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">shared<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> the story of what h<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>ens when older Windows XP laptops play the music video for Jackson\u2019s \u201cRhythm Nation.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" srcdoc=\"&lt;style&gt;*{padding:0;margin:0;overflow:hidden}html,body{background:#000;height:100%}img{position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;object-fit:cover;transition:opacity .1s cubic-bezier(0.4,0,1,1)}a:hover img+img{opacity:1!important}&lt;\/style&gt;&lt;a href=\" https:=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/img.youtube.com\/vi\/OAwaNWGLM0c\/hqdefault.jpg\" style=\"top: 50%;left:50%;width:68px;height:48px;transform:translate3d(-50%,-50%,0)\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Specifically, Chen recalls a colleague\u2019s tale from Windows XP product support. An unnamed major computer manufacturer discovered that playing the video would crash certain models of laptops.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"inarticle-wrapper plugged channel-cta hs-embed-tnw\">\n<div id=\"hs-embed-tnw\" class=\"channel-cta-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"channel-cta-img\"><img class=\"js-lazy\" https:=\"\"\/><\/div>\n<p><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thenextweb.com\/news\/src=\" https:=\"\"\/><\/noscript><\/p>\n<div class=\"channel-cta-input\">\n<h2 class=\"channel-cta-title\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Greetings_tech_nerd\"><\/span>Greetings, tech nerd!<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p class=\"channel-cta-tagline\">Are you into gadgets? And apps? And other cool tech stuff? Then this weekly <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">news<\/a>letter is for you.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Even weirder, playing the music video on one laptop resulted in a crash of another laptop nearby.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"So_why_did_the_song_cause_computers_to_crash\"><\/span><strong>So why did the song cause computers to crash?<\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The song contained a resonant frequency that affected the laptop\u2019s hard drive. Chen recounted:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cIt turns out that the song contained one of the natural resonant frequencies for the model of 5400 rpm laptop hard drives that they and other manufacturers used.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In other words, playing the song produced specific sound waves that vibrated at the same frequency as those from the hard drive. This caused the laptop to crash. This is known as <\/span><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.desolutions.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/what-is-a-vibration-resonance\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">vibration resonance<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Fortunately, the manufacturer solved the problem by adding a custom filter in the audio pipeline that detected and removed the offending frequencies during audio playback.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Not_an_isolated_incident\"><\/span><strong>Not an isolated incident<\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Even more interesting, there are other cases of vibration resonance causing local effects.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Another Microsoft dev revealed that playing the <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/game\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"7\" title=\"Game\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">game<\/a> <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">101 Monochrome Mazes<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> would \u201creliably crash their machine\u201d because the speaker <\/span><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.computerhope.com\/jargon\/t\/trace.htm\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">trace<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and reset trace were too close to each other.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">I was once working on a new desktop computer and I found that playing the game 101 Monochrome Mazes would reliably crash the machine.<\/p>\n<p>The hardware boffins investigated and discovered the trace to the speaker on the motherboard was too close to the reset trace.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Larry Osterman (@osterman) <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/osterman\/status\/1558676353196494850?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 14, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\/><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The phenomenon not only affects computers. In 1940 the <\/span><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tacoma_Narrows_Bridge_(1940)\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tacoma Narrows Suspension Bridge<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> collapsed in response to wind gusts, creating a vibrational resonance that matched the bridge\u2019s natural frequency. It caused the bridge to swing, twist, and eventually collapse.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Soldiers marching in unison across a bridge can also create vibrational resonance.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In 2011, the TechnoMart shopping mall in Seoul was evacuated in response to 10 minutes of swaying. Mall officials originally suspected a localized earthquake.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" srcdoc=\"&lt;style&gt;*{padding:0;margin:0;overflow:hidden}html,body{background:#000;height:100%}img{position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;object-fit:cover;transition:opacity .1s cubic-bezier(0.4,0,1,1)}a:hover img+img{opacity:1!important}&lt;\/style&gt;&lt;a href=\" https:=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/img.youtube.com\/vi\/lziRFZ8g67M\/hqdefault.jpg\" style=\"top: 50%;left:50%;width:68px;height:48px;transform:translate3d(-50%,-50%,0)\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">However, <\/span><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/koreajoongangdaily.joins.com\/news\/article\/article.aspx?aid=2939056\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">the culprit<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> was actually a group of middle-aged people doing a\u00a0 <\/span><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=lziRFZ8g67M\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tae Bo<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> workout to the song \u201cThe Power\u201d by Snap.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" srcdoc=\"&lt;style&gt;*{padding:0;margin:0;overflow:hidden}html,body{background:#000;height:100%}img{position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;object-fit:cover;transition:opacity .1s cubic-bezier(0.4,0,1,1)}a:hover img+img{opacity:1!important}&lt;\/style&gt;&lt;a href=\" https:=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/img.youtube.com\/vi\/nm6DO_7px1I\/hqdefault.jpg\" style=\"top: 50%;left:50%;width:68px;height:48px;transform:translate3d(-50%,-50%,0)\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The scenario was <\/span><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.news.com.au\/breaking-news\/gym-workout-caused-tremor-in-seoul-\/news-story\/5c59ecda108c91c411f3259569a2e77d\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">successfully replicated<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> using 17 middle-aged participants who exercised to the song for five minutes.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Enthusiastic dancing in unison at gigs can also cause <\/span><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2021\/05\/03\/suggs-reveals-a-madness-concert-caused-two-earthquakes-in-1992-14513884\/?ico=related-posts\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">vibrational resonance<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It all brings another meaning to the term good vibrations.\u00a0<\/span>\n                        <\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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