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Re: Driver for display goes to a infinite loop by viewing a html!

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Frank Nospam)
Thu Aug 12 21:51:05 2004

Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2004 16:32:47 -0400
From: Frank Nospam <fuy1@umbc.edu>
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For the sake of completeness: Mac OS X 10.3.5 doesn't crash or
  consume excess CPU cycles at your test page.

The only notable quirk was a failure to scale the test image:
  Safari 1.2.3 (KHTML) displayed a blank space 999999 pixels tall
  and Mozilla 1.8a displayed a 999999x999999 black box.


> On 11 Aug 2004 12:11:06 -0000, Bipin Gautam <visitbipin@hotmail.com> 
> wrote:
>> http://www.geocities.com/visitbipin/crazy.html
>> Try scrolling the picture for few seconds...[ don't kill the process] 
>> I have tested it on several machines with intel vga. it reboots Winxp 
>> with a fetal error because The driver for the display device got 
>> stuck in an infinite loop.


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