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why not just put stray magnetic things in a tin box? |
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That would be too organized. This has the added benefit, it set to run every time the drawer detects a new addition, of killing any de-organizer or re-organizer robots that a vandal may decide to inflict upon your drawer. |
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err... so now I need a separate junk drawer just for my magnets ? |
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No... you just need a soon-to-be award winning, patent pending
Re-gausser. |
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This has the added benefit of erasing any cellphones and computer devices you might have left in the drawer by accident. |
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Which would've been wiped already by the magnets this is
designed to counter, so what's your point? |
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I don't think that's necessarily true. Whereas i have something of a "putting magnets anywhere near magnetic media" phobia, unless they're actually rare earth magnets or ordinary iron magnets in contact with the media concerned, i think you'd stand a fairly good chance of getting away without damaging them. It's not advisable to stick them in the same drawer, but it would be a pity to lose any data which you were lucky enough to have retained or be able to retrieve where they were damaged. |
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Who puts such media in the kitchen junk drawer, though? |
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Someone who is as disorganised as i am or who has fancy gadgets disguised as something else. |
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//erasing any cellphones //
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Your cellphone uses floppies? |
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Right, so are Micro-SDs and so on not magnetic? Not being sarcastic here, just asking out of curiosity because i don't really get them.
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OK, after looking them up, so they're semiconductor-based. |
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Since we're talking about storing miscellaneous hardware in the kitchen, wasn't your typical refrigerator door designed to hold assorted spare magnets? |
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I used the side of my computer's tower (actually a motherboard on it's side...) to hold refrigerator magnets for a whole decade back in the 90s. Both sizes of floppies went in and out every day to run various shareware games with no problem.
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Later, the floppies in an early digitial camera I had continuously gave me problems... but at that time, I was in the navy, on a steel ship with built-in degaussers.
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So... the magnets in the drawer probably won't be a problem, but I think the degausser would go a bit overboard. |
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What's with all this talk of digital media? Read the post, please.
Seriously, if you have one of these, keep your digital media out
of the drawer. |
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//wasn't your typical refrigerator door designed to hold assorted spare magnets?// - alas, no. I realised after buying my fridge that the door is stainless steel and thus non-magnetic.
[ye_river_xiv] ...digital cameras which stored pictures to floppy disc - I'd forgotten about those! |
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A stepvan from bankrupt carpet cleaner, some impressive magnets and you can start a mobile degaussing service. |
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Pick up a church at auction and start a gauss religious sect. Lights dim at high noon and anything place reverently on the altar is degaussed. |
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No preaching if all attending donate a buck. |
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Tea and cake in the social hall afterwards. |
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//Magnetic screwdrivers are great until you don't want one.//
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