Roughly, it works by searching for a specific sort of controller (used in a centrifuge), in a specific sort of situation (running at a certain RPM used for uranium processing), and then inserts a modified operating system that revs up and revs down the machine until it spins itself to pieces.

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Though Murstein and Bergeron hired Lisa Brown, a former AOL executive, to be the team's chief executive, Petty, as the chairman of RPM, is still running most of the show, which includes the wooing of the sponsors.

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You can bump up the hard drive to 40GB running at a speedier 5, 400 rpm if you so desire, though you'll have to give up about two hours of battery life for the pleasure.

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Start the engine of the running car, and run it for 1-2 minutes while revving the engine to higher rpm.

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In 1980 RPM begat Spinoff which in 1984 mutated into On the Wire, now the longest running continuous alternative music show on UK radio - and due to celebrate its 25th anniversary in September 2009 with a month-long extravaganza of special extended shows and guests from both Lancashire and across the globe.

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