http://item.ebay.com/291125433026
 
You can get some pretty cheap phones that have good specs.

This happened in the default iOS 4 browser as well when I had an iPod Touch over three years ago. Everything stops loading when this happens because of the resulting extreme CPU/memory usage. I think this glitch happens on every single iOS-based proprietary browser.


I don't want to check if it still happens in iOS 4 because I heard that older iDevices explode if you try to recharge them after leaving the battery empty for several months in a row.

It wasn't a problem for me on my iOS 3/4 iTouch back in the day. It did cause extreme lag due to the resource usage though.

First of all, can I then command it without the user noticing? Second, I'm confused by talk of servers, ports, and writing - I'd need a lot of walking through that.

Sidenote, can anyone help me write a special hard-reset or BSOD Windows Vista x86 driver? That might work well.

If you set up the listener right, then yes you could do it in a way that the user wouldn't notice.

If you wrote a simple server application that all it does is listen on a port, so something like this would work (node.js)
require('http').createServer(function (req, res){
  require('child_process').exec('<command to run>');
}).listen(9615);
All you would have to do is figure out what the IP is on the network and then just load http://<machines_ip>:9615 in your web browser (as long as the machine you are on is on the same network) to cause the BSOD or shutdown.


EDIT: So, as it was pointed out to me on IRC. I really shouldn't be helping with this kind of thing. The topic is locked because, well the reasons you want to know this are kinda nefarious.
Sorry about that!

Although it's harder to find old content via IRC logs than the forums

Although it's not hard to just ask people who might remember on IRC. Or might have a better idea of what to search for.

Quote from: Eeems on July 03, 2014, 10:55:38 pm

See attached for the setting you need to disable. You will also need to remove any topics you don't want to be notified for.

That's what I was talking about (and did a long time ago) and just now, I got notified for this topic.

So you removed the notification from your list of topics to notify from? The first checkbox doesn't relate to the topic notifications. That one is for emails that admins would send out to everybody. If you want to disable notifications for a topic you would have to remove that topic specifically. You would also have to disable the second checkbox to stop it from automatically adding new topics to the list.

Please use Ourl.can/issue to report issues.

You should include graphs for CPU and memory usage to see if it coincides with temperatures changes.