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What happens When You Cook Your Palm Pilot
Hal-kun writes "What happens when you put a Palm Pilot in the oven to dry with the warmth of the pilot light, only to have someone cook a Pizza while you were out? Take a look. Stick a fork in it, I think it's done."
Wonder what it tasted like? Mmmm... Palm Pilot. However, the electronics don't look so damaged... Maybe it's salvagable?
Everything is mainstream now.
My boss washed his in the washer, needless to say he never got another one.
Macs as a fetish property
Now thats a good one... Why didnt he just disasemble it and use a hairdryer to dry it out LOL.... Nothing like fried Palm parts :-)
Only thing better would have been the microwave
Am I lying when I tell you that im telling the truth? Or am I telling the truth when I say that Im lying?
...and don't mind a little blatant karma-whoring:
The Palm Graveyard is dedicated to tales and pictures of Palms that have piloted their way to the choir invisible.
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Shouldn't it just run faster?
Oh, he over cooked it...
"The cost of freedom is eternal vigilance." -Thomas Jefferson
Give it to Emeril. Then after he does his thing, it will finally be done for.
-Cyc
/.'s 10 Millionth
The nerve of this person, cooking a Palm in an oven!
Everyone knows you're supposed to barbecue them!
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Hope they got the service plan. Still nothing compared to what happens to technology in the microwave.
Interestingly, the electronics looked to be pretty intact for the temperature it was cooked at, and the screen didn't look too bad. I'd say those Palm VIIx's are fairly resilient. Too bad they're so big.
This brings up another interesting question, however. Are there "rugged" PDAs that are able to take a beating? I know that Fellowes sells a bumper case that's supposed to protect Palms, but how durable are they? Does somebody make a "rugged" PDA?
That's really funny. I've actually dried out electronic stuff this way before and it usually does work, as long as someone doesn't come along and try to use the oven hehehe =]. Bet the company wasn't too happy.
mmmmm. palm pizza
This would be news if the device actually still ran after melting. "The indestructable Palm Pilots..."
To the term "HotSync" :)
I wonder how my Palm Vx would take it -- the casing being metal and all... no doubt the buttons, the screen, and the internal PCB would be toast...
You think the warranty will cover that? =] :)
Perhaps a microwave would have been the better way to go. Dry it from the inside out
I hope the pizza didn't get ruined.
I hear that microwave ovens are really great for drying off your poodle after a shampoo!
...consumer protection activist comment
here:
The story that goes with the pics is a bit weird...
/me thinks it's a hoax.
Still, great pics !
I guess he didn't purchase the Palm eMeatThermometer2.0(TM) attachment. That, plus the optional wireless add-on pack, should have alerted his pager to pull it out of there in time...
Sounds like a PalmPilot in the hand is better than two in the oven...
Storm: What happens when you cook a Palm Pilot?
Storm: The same thing that happens to everything else.
...but it's being eaten...by some...Linux or something...
Soon to be a #11 at a fast food restaurant neat you!
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I'd be pissed if the pizza came out tasting like plastic. What we need are pictures of that pizza.
One future, two choices. Oppose them or let them destroy us.
Maybe if we're really good, we can see what a CD of XP looks like if you put it in the microwave.
You really can, and people actually do dry out circuits by baking them. If he had removed the LCD, plastic case, and batteries it might have survived.
Imagine a Beowulf Cluster of ovens cooking that thing...
Using an oven to dry out electronics isn't all that absurd.
When I was working in hardware design, many IC's that were designed to be wave soldered had to be totally free of moisture. They came shipped in air tight containers with humidity cards to tell you if they were exposed to too much moisture.
If they were not dry enough, the procedure was to bake them in an oven at several hundred degrees for a while.
Now, LCD's and plastics and other materials would not be too happy with that treatment. As others noted, a hair dryer will work to get it mostly dry. I'd suggest leaving it in a warm, dry area for at least a day after to make sure.
I once spilled an *entire* glass of water into an old Comodore 1541 disk drive. The scary thing, is they contained their own power supply. And it was on. After a day or so of drying, it worked fine.
Not so for the Commodore 128 that took a glass of grape juice (real, not flavored) into the keyboard. Although it was funny watching the keys sloooowly depress in the order you typed them in...
Unfortunately this product is not edible, and believe me, I tried. Boy did I wake up with a stomach ache the next morning.
chicken of course, well at least my mother-in-laws chicken.
What do you think he does when his laptop gets wet?
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It does not square up with my experience of the real world. Most of the technical guys where I work are none too smart, and the manegement all seem to have MBAs or further degrees. I wish all the jealousy and playa-hating would stop.
Geeks are not better than everyone else, and their so-called humor is not funny
If it's fake or if it's true, it's still a laugh!
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Is there anyone that actually thinks this was an accident? This "exec" cooked his Palm so he could get the "latest and greatest" as a replacement.
I know a lot of people who have done the same thing. Your laptop seem a big sluggish? Drop it on the pavement "by accident"... and bingo... the IT department hands you a shiny new blazingly fast feature filled replacement.
It doesn't take a genius to figure out what really happened.
-S
--- What parts of "shall make no law", "shall not be infringed", and "shall not be violated" don't you understand?
we've got a new addition for the geek cookbook!
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Stick a fork in it, I think it's done.
Perhaps you can try giving Meldroc, the person who said it, credit?
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No.. you don't BBQ them.. Everyone *knows* that with a VIIx you flambet them with a lovely white wine and cream sauce...
Mmmmm....
Or has anyone else noticed that the most sure-fire way to get an article on Slashdot is to wreck complex electronics?
Pouring concrete in a PC case, cooking your Palm Pilot, what's next? Xbox tossing? eBook flushing? Blasting a new iMac with a high-powered laser? Okay, that last one would be cool.
[PowerPoint] is a tool for capitalist presentation
if you are putting Palm pilots on pizzas as toppings. :)
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Cook for one hour at 375` and soon all system resources will melt into a globulous wad of uselessness ... just like Windows!
m.mmm..myyy
...to the pizza dammit, was it saved, was it tasty, was it delectable, did it taste like burnt plastic?
I wondered why there are so many PHBs believe in kitchen-ware could fix hi-tech devices.
My friend, an Oracle DBA consultant, was given a difficult task to revive a very old tape which contained very important data. He tried so many methods in vain until he found out the tape manufacturer did provide service to 'bake' the tape. Yes! bake the tape to revive the tape. We don't know how and what they use to bake the tape, but they really said it is some process to 'bake' the tape to make the tape 'readable' again.
My friend solved the problem. A month later, the same client called, saying that their PHB, in an attempt to save money, baking tapes that he found problems - with (you bet) house oven.
This time, my friend declined to help(of course.)
My mother always said that bad things would come from Palm abuse...
The "wild molten" look...Apple, are you paying attention? heh heh
Once I had to clean out a calculator that I spilled cranberry juice in, I dunked the parts in denatured alcohol (ethanol or isopropyl with very low water content) which I assumed would clean out the cranberry juice and drive out the water. The calculator (TI85) still works fine today......"teh oven" is "teh bad idea" I think.
Dunno about taste of the Palm Pilot, but I'm sure the pizza tasted like hell (from personal experience.) I hope they tossed it, rather than eat it, burnt plastic residue would settle on the pizza and probably make it toxic, besides just tasting that way.
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
my aunt dropped her palm vx in the toilet (fell out of her purse) with her cell phone
Well, she put them in the oven on a cookie sheet on a very low heat and sure enough - it worked
However, both stopped working over some time. The plus is that the plam was able to sync and was able to be replaced 'under warrenty' and same with the phone
There was no definate corelation between the water and stop working but I am pretty sure that some things that were exposed to water eventually corroded.
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Why the hell would I want to cock my Palm Pilot, I got a girlfriend for th...Ohhh, Cooook.
On the 4th of February we asked the question: "Who do you love to have sex with???" Lets check out our results.
24.9% -- The hole of a Lunix CD
2.5% -- A relative
4.9% -- That Charmer from Goatse(CmdrTaco)
12.9% -- My Blow-up-Whale look-alike of CowboyNeal
54.8% -- I'll stick to CowboyNeals ass
...if you look at the pictures, it is the new one. He replaced his old Palm III with the new one, which subsequently got cooked.
Anyway, with the budget restrictions curently in effect at most companies, that rule doesn't apply any more. All of the employees where I work have been told, "If your laptop dies, you get a desktop machine." Since most of us already have a desktop machine, that means we get nada if our laptops break. Scary...
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Grab the next motherfucker marmaduke who refuses to submit to these pelvic ostentations.
I've stumbled upon a brain fart which melts away your molds!
Somewhere, probably. If you're in the sick mood for more hosed computer stuff:
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http://www.mikey-san.net/static/bucket/trackpad
http://www.mikey-san.net/static/bucket/power_su
These are pictures of a PowerBook G3 that decided to fry itself after several years of use.
Cooked, big time. Makes you wonder how many other computer damage pictures are floating around on the Internet.
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Mikey-San
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Do you know how to check whether a microwave oven has leakage? I saw an article suggest to put a mobile phone into the microwave oven and call the phone. Because the mobile wave spectrum in the microwave band, if the metal cast failed to prevent microwave passing thru, then the phone will ring.
:)
I'm not the only one who read the same article. A PHB in another section would like to check whether the pantry's microwave oven has leakage with this method - later he complaint to the columist why he didn't warn the readers NOT to press the 'Start' button.
May be the columist must make the disclaimer 'People with IQ below 100 shouldn't read the following...'.
"Here, hold this wire for me..."
/sbin/fsck -U micro$oft
I used to read Nintendo Power back in the day when 8 bit systems walked the earth.
One of the soldiers took his gameboy with him to Desert Storm, and it got toasted by a grenade, according to one issue.
They showed a picture that looked about like that Palm Pilot did - but Tetris was running on it. It still worked! Of course, the screen was really difficult to see, since half of it was burnt off, but at least it did *something*.
There used to be a gameboy "game" called a workboy, which was basically a PDA. Maybe I should get one of those instead of a Palm. Then I won't have to worry about it breaking.
Mod me down and I will become more powerful than you can possibly imagine!
So, yesterday we had "arse digiter", and today we have "arse techniquer". This is getting a bit wierd...
...a slice of pizza in his Palm charging/sync cradle, and his roommate hoping he wouldn't notice anything wrong?
Today is my daughters birthday. I gave her guess what... a palm pilot.
Thanks a lot Slashdot. I feel much better now.
This is my personal opinion. I really don't think this is really all that important. We've seen other electronics being fried and killed on Slashdot before. It would be diffrent if the ting fried like that by trying to play Quake III.
And it doesn't work anymore? Back in my day, we could get our PDAs wed, burn them, have the cattle eat them, pass them, then freeze them, and they STILL had that new PDA smell! What has the world come to???
Seriously though that kind of neat. Personally I think that it would be insteresting to find out what fresh-baked Palms smell like. I guess I'll never find out because I don't have a Palm to waste (I don't have one period), and second I have to say I'd be suprised if it DIDN'T put off toxic fumes. My only real question for the guy who's Palm that was is this: how did the pizza taste? Does silicone enhance the flavor? Did you try putting the Palm in a light Bernet sauce?
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did the batteries explode all over the pizza?
Seize the following motherfuckermarmaduke, which rejects, to submit with this basin of east doing ion.
I gestolpert after a Gehirnfart, which melts away your forms!
This is really pathetic. I am sorry, but I want to point this out that there are literally thousands of sites out there with pictures and stories of ruined hardware. Why is this one worthy of a spot on the front page? I'm sure a large majority of us have submitted what we considered valuable, informative, or interesting stories, only to get rejected less than 30 seconds after submission.
/.'s front page, all you have to do is take an axe to some hardware, photograph it, and be like "whoops, I was chopping wood when my PC accidently slid under the blade."
Now, here's a guy who was a total numbnut who got his Palm fried.
Big deal.
From now on, if you want to get your story posted on
Wake up, editors.
Why bother.
I bought one of the Palm Pilots that came out in early 2000 and had the clear case. I "accidently" put min in the microwave. See it here: http://www.nerdtreehouse.com
Like I care about a cooked Palm Pilot. Where's the photo of the pizza???
He is a "Head Executive". He therefore is not expected to know better about anything to do with technology.
So he has immunity from firing for stupid, wasteful things like this. But he could be fired for parking in CEO's parking place.
/me weeps unashamedly at the wanton destruction of an innocent PalmOS device
:-(
I love PalmOS devices, even such ugly-ducklings as the Palm VII.
It makes me sad to see one mistreated so
/me believes that all PalmOS devices are God's children, even the ugly ones
As someone who works for Palm I'd like to inform the owner of the Extra Crispy Tasty(tm) Palm VIIx that if they can still read the serial number they qualify for the upgrade program. :)
i hope the pizza came out not tasting like plastic.
chalk one up for "stimulating the economy" :-)
http://www.tangible-technology.com/tape/baking1.ht ml
When baked, the tape will expand and become loose around the hub. For this reason, use flanges to protect the tape from coming apart. Cooking temperature is between 130F and 140F. Tapes wound on plastic reels with small hubs should be rewound onto large reels with NAB hubs. Be careful to thread the tape around the hub without any "folds." The goal is to minimize "mechanical distortions" that can be impressed upon subsequent layers causing dropouts. The "wind" must be smooth as if played!!!
I have received several e-mails regarding "cooking time" and temperature. Provided the wind is smooth, I am not afraid to bake a quarter inch tape at 135F -- for two hours -- flipping every half-hour. You will find that cooking time varies with tape width, type, brand, condition and the number of reels being baked. Ampex tape from the seventies might require twice as much time as 3M tape from the eighties (as reported by Wendy Carlos when restoring her masters from that time period). Table One below can be used as a guide.
Other links:
http://www.audio-restoration.com/baking.htm
which indicate that this may not be a permanent solution, but is intended for tapes manufactered from the mid 70's forward, which had a tendency to absorb mosture.
http://www.sospubs.co.uk/sos/1996_articles/may96/s alvagearchives.html
is also good, and indicates that home ovens do not go low enough.
"It is a greater offense to steal men's labor, than their clothes"
Is the market getting a little to hot for palm? Is the next stop to the deep fryer?
I'll bet a case of beer Bill has a pick of this on his desktop.
Help desk people. hahhaha. Sounds like a BOFH moment.
with a little bit o' tabasco! :-P
...surely he would know not to put a peice of tech like that in teh oven :-/
Hey, now!
What's wrong with beefy Dutch men!?
...will cover that? :-D
To get back on-topic.. (because we can't STAND to read a post that's not on the topic of burnt PDAs in a burnt PDA article.. that would be a waste of TIME!) Yeah, I think burnt PDAs are really cool. Hey, I could.. make a.. ummmm.. burnt PDA.. sandwich. Hahahahaha. Imagine a beowulf cluster of those. roflol.
Oi..... Son of the bloody monkey.
The streets shall flow with the blood of the Guberminky.
Foolish PHB, everyone knows you use a Microwave, not a Gas Oven!
Some people...
I don't read ACs: If a post isn't worth so much as a nom de plume to its author then I wont bother either.
Are you telling us that your users tell you the truth, without you needing to question them for an hour?
;-)
This is obviously a hoax
This is a classic deception.
The reality is that he was attempting to overclock that puppy to 30GHz.
Now let that be a lesson to everyone!
No mention if they flicked it on.
:)
Anyone remember the "baked Apple" ads where some guy had his house burn down around his Apple II and after Apple replaced the melted case it worked fine.
Yeah, I know, the Palm is probably toast, but if it could be made to work, they have the coolest case mod ever
The microwave is obviously the right way to dry it off!
Is this how the warnings section of consumer product manuals get so large?
One story, one comment:
The story: My college roommate and I were riding our motorcycles to his mom's place for post-Thanksgiving dinner when we got drenched in a rainstorm. My roommate put his boots in the oven to dry by the heat of the pilot. This was fine till after dinner his mom decided the oven needed cleaning and switched it to self clean before we moved to the livingroom for dessert and games. We discovered the mistake when the smoke detectors went off. The boots were charcoal and just a couple minutes more and the only remains would have been the steel toes and rivets.
The comment: I have successfully rescued sunken cell phones and such. First, immediately remove the battery. Next, rinse away the dirty water with distilled water. Then let the thing dry naturally - DON'T heat. H2O+heat = corrosion. Be patient and don't touch it for a couple days until it is really dry.
I grew up on a Navy R&D base and it was routine for the engineers to clean out some of their very expensive test equipment by wheeling it outside and rinsing it out with a garden hose! Of course this was in the desert and things dry very quickly.
...why those not in IT should not be allowed IT toys.
Leaving gear in the car trunk or wherever, particularly overnight, cools it down to ambient which in Montreal right now is about -10c to -20c at night. Then bringing it into one's nice warm steamy house means condensation on components like the hard drive, some batteries, metal shields, etc. This film of moisture can cause problems like corrosion and shorting resulting in everything from intermittant flakiness to outright failure.
Thus aside from sticktion and under-spec cold batteries & capaciters & the thermal stress of running a frozen laptop/palmtop it's just best to let the whole thing warm up and dry out before using. In those cases putting on top of the 'fridge (where the warm air from the condensor blows up) or inside an oven with a pilot light AND NOT USING THE OVEN or on a table near (not *on*) a radiator are all actually good ideas.
I don't read ACs: If a post isn't worth so much as a nom de plume to its author then I wont bother either.
Really, only Jackasses use PDAs. They deserve what they get. How hard it must be to be such a Jackass. They must spend a lot of money on replacing crap they screw up. Sheesh!
Reminds me of a story of mine..
Working tech support at a company.. Sales Weasle needed a modem to connect his computer upto the corprate network.. Needless to say it was an external. He was having line issues connection problems galore. So instead of calling the helpdesk, he came over to my manager and asked if one of us could take a look. I was lucky enough to get the assignment. Went over and diagnosed it as line issues and told him to just redial to try and get another line. He did that but then a week later came back and said it wasn't working. I went over and tapped the modem gently on the desk and told him all would be set now...
So a week later my manager called me into the office and showed me a smashed modem. One of those white USR. I knew exactly what had happened but my Manager asked me if I told the sales weasle it was okay to smash the modem into the ground repeatedly. It seems that after the weasle had done the deed he'd called IT, and IT had come to my boss. I explained myself and the IT chief said we could no longer help sales with their issues, and that they should call IT from now on blah blah... All in all it was a win win situation. My manager found it hillarious that the Sales Weasle had gone to such extremes to try and get a faster connection. Even the IT manager was smilling when it was all explained to him.
I don't read ACs: If a post isn't worth so much as a nom de plume to its author then I wont bother either.
moron
Why do you people have such a big problem with this guy's boss? The oven really is a great way to dry soaked electronics, as long as someone doesn't turn the temperature up to high. That's how I recovered all except a hard drive from my basement when it was flooded (I also put them in a hot car on a sunny summer day). Now, it might have been better to disassemble the unit first, and maybe use a hair dryer too, but it's kind of tough to cleanly disassemble those little consumer electronics gadgets. Or in retrospect, leave a note on the oven saying what's going on. But I don't understand why, just because he is someone's boss, it seems, you people think he must be a total idiot. What would you do if your palm pilot was drowned like that? Probably not much better.
But...I can't stop laughing. OMFG!!!!!!
Damnit, Jim, I'm an anarchist, not a F@#$!^& doctor!
Lets leave a VHS tape in a hot car and see what happens.
Thanks to file sharing, I purchase more CDs
Thanks to the RIAA, I buy them used...
Here is what I did to resurrect it.
I took the radio out of the car and the cover off the radio. I filled the kitchen sink with cold, clean water and soaked everything, cassette player and all, for 1 hour. Drained the water, refilled the sink, and soaked for another 15 minutes (rinse cycle). Finally, I baked it at 160 deg F in an (electric) oven for 8 hours.
Why 160? I figured a car radio could get that hot when the car was in the sun with the doors closed. I hesitated to go higher, mainly concerned with the plastic parts in the cassette player.
The radio and cassette still work fine to this day. Yeah, I still own the car - these days only gas-hogging SUVs match the surprising storage space inside of the tiny-looking frame of a 1988 Honda Wagovan, AFAIK made only one year, and only in tan. With plenty of headroom for extra-tall folks.
Who's gonna microwave a Palm?
you know.....if you look at it from an angle.....and squint you're eyes slightly....
...It looks kinda like OS-X.
--an unbreakable toy is useful for breaking other toys--
Remember oven is a privialged device of group kitchen! All roomates should not be a member of this group and all roomates should be run in a room jail. This can help to provide added process security to the oven device.
:-)
---- Fight to protect your right to keep and arm bears! ummmm... ya I think that's right....
How dumb do you have to be to put electronics in the oven? I think he got what he deserved.
Only 'flamers' flame!
Or even significantly reduce its usefulness. That way your theory would also explain all the attention given to copy protected CDs and microsoft products. (*smile*)
-- MarkusQ
Looks like the phone I left on the stove (cordless phone) when it was on once LOL - melted over the burner a biznitch to get off ack
paul
Who cares about SCSI, this is REALLY the next generation of FireWire!!!
all my
AMD has announced that they are working on a new line of chips designed to work in Palm pilots and other small personal devices. When asked of their progress an AMD spokesman commented "The initial tests look encouraging although we're still having some problems with the heat dispersement. We've submitted some of the results of the experiment to a "research" group in hopes that they will have some useful insight."
I stole this Sig
Why did he have to put it in the oven? Backlighting works anywhere; maybe it needed to be in a dark space. Well, the chief problem was that somebody "blew out his pilot light and made a dish."
I had (still have, actually) a Palm V that I once sat on during a meeting. The screen was completely cracked. I called Palm's customer support and told them I needed it to be repaired. They didn't even ask me what was wrong. Apparently, it's a fixed price for repair no matter what happens to it.
If I wored in IT/IS at that company I'd call Palm myself. It's worth a shot.
Another story... A few years ago when I was working at an ISP, they had a beautiful 21-inch monitor that arrived DOA. The distributor they got it from just sent a new one right away and never asked for the other one back. This thing sat in a storeroom for almost a year. I asked about buying it, thinking they would say no, but I was surprised when they agreed to sell it to me for 10% of their cost. So I ended up paying $95 for it -- 1998, so that was a great deal!
I tried to get it repaired at several local TV repair shops, but none said they could fix it. I was starting to think I'd wasted my money, but my wife just called the manufacturer, gave them the serial number and they said, sure it's under warranty, just send it back! She told them to arrange to have it picked up, which they did. They fixed it (and actually it died right away, and they fixed it a second time - aarrgh!), but since then it's worked perfectly...
...an IT person would know that a Palm should be sauteed, not baked.
No, he oven-cooked it.
(according to the story with a nice layer of tomato sauce, onions and some other stuff that's on the dough of a Pizza).
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I can see putting it into the oven to dry it out w/ something around 150... No biggie... But this BS about not seeing it when you stuffed the zzza into the oven? Come on... Let's be real. This guy wouldn't have told anyone about this - he would have gone to the store bought another one and left it at that...
But actually telling people about this f'up? This guy needs to pee into a cup to see if the test machine explodes... He's obviously tooooo high.
Although the casing has melted, it seems to me that the PCB is intact ... which makes sense given what PCBs go through during manufacturing ...
A hairdryer could be just as bad... I once used a hairdryer to dry a mouse and keyboard I'd just cleaned... The mouse warped terribly. Kinda curled in on itself, the way a foam plate does when you toss it in a camp fire.
A solution to the problem with music today
Ebay, need I say more. Actually ya I do....people will buy anything!
I've used the heat generated from a TV or more recently my monitor. I'm not talking about dripping wet items, that would be stupid, and you would desrve what you get. But if it has moisture on the inside such as in the screen like the face of a watch that fod up inside. Take out the batteries, remove any covers, open all doors and panels, and place it on you tv or monitior. Leave there for a day or two. We used to tell this to people who dropped their digital cameras into water and it's worked dozens of times. Low grade heat and somewhere for the moisture to go. Of course we would suggest that the camera would need to go in for service immediately to protect it from corrosion, etc. most did they were glad we had saved them the cost of a new camera.
If i was him id defintely axe the person who did that... poor ol' palm
i wonder what the pizza tasted like?
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If you look at the index page of the forum where these pics appear, there's some nice data on the slashdot effect in progress. Currently 58788 views for that thread - where most other threads don't get above the 2k views.
It'd be interesting to check back in a day or so, see how many hits we racked up in total...
when you're eating your freshly baked palm and scaulding hot stringy plastic runs down your chin?
The real question I ask is how was the pizza?
hmm... for fun I enjoy launching DDoS attacks against 127.87.42.5
Maybe he misread some email about ov3r*cl0ck*ing
I soaked mine in color safe bleach for about an hour. It was in the pocket of my bathrobe. The exterior looked okay so I just called up support and told them it stopped working. I had a new one in three days.
You could have cleaned the gunk out by soaking it in deionized water. Then air dry it.
Ignoring the obligatory "Magic Smoke" jokes, I'm wondering whether they eat the pizza. Benzpyrenes, dioxins, polychlorinated aromatics. These all have a negative effect on flavour.
Also, was it a Religiously acceptable pizza?
I also immensly enjoyed spilling cofe on my keyboard, dropping my cell phone, and then stepping on it, and cutting my finger when clipping my toenails. I guess I should dedicate a web site to it.
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I put my cell phone in the washing machine a while back, and when I took it out, it wasn't working at all. Raising the antenna caused a cascade to come out of the antenna well.
So I took it to Verizon where I declared "I think my cell phone is broken." The guy behind the counter goes "Did it get wet?" to which I replied "I think it might have!"
He declared that it was broken forever without any hope of repair and I was better off buying a new one. Since I didn't have enough cash with me to get a heady new replacement, I took my broken cell home and let it sit.
A couple of days later it was working again, albeit with all of the stored numbers erased.
Can someone please explain to me why one would *not* want electronics to get wet? I mean, I can understand things shorting out should they be run when wet, but if my cell was off when it went in the wash, why would the guy declare it to be broken forever afterwards? Probably a common sense thing I'm missing.
- Adam
My Palm III and cell phone were in a fanny pack that somehow managed to fling itself out of my car and into the middle of the street. By the time I'd recovered it (after someone less cluefully impaired pointed this out), at least one car had driven over it. Needless to say, the Palm was lunchmeat. The screen looks really cool, though, kind of like a piece of safety glass that someone smacked their head into hard enough to crush but not break.
Interestingly enough, the phone, a Nokia, works perfectly, except for the case being a little loose. I wrapped one end with tape and it's fine.
Semi-related to the actual story, I once spilled most of a cup of coffee into the top of my FM receiver, which happened to be on at the time. It was pretty disappointing, though - no sparks, no smoke, the damn thing didn't even stop playing. I unplugged it and let it dry out for a few days, and it was as good as new, plus the room smelled like French Roast.
What if life is just a side effect of some other process and God has no idea we exist?
Not all Dutchmen that like Front 242 are groten, dude! I take offense at your comments.
Last month, I feel real bad and vomit in my own jacket. I put my jacket in my washing machine to wash it. I dry it on the other day and find there's something heavy inside the pocket. I think it may be coins, card or paper something, I pull that thing out and find that it is my new CLIE.... I turn on the power immediately and poor little thing is already gone. I open the case and try to do a last minute first aid using my hair drier, BOOOBOO.. I turn it on again and finally confirm its death. Maybe I should I put it into my microwave owen like this guy does...
What I find out from this tragedy is that - DON't BUY T-400!
This little thing is too slim that I always put it in my pocket and forget to get it out...
I dropped my Palm IIIx from a height of 5 feet, and literally SMASHED the screen on the kitchen floor, but I did managed to HotSync it one more time before shipping it off for repair.
I love these new fangled devices!
I burned my palm on a curling iron while curling my hair before, and burned my palm on the fry pan while cooking an egg. I can't read palms but I have two of them.
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Incubus suck ass.
(2) Water can cause an active circuit to short itself out, possibly in a permanently descructive manner.
Fianlly some one did it, in a sort of anti-apple way that just screams, BUY ME, perfect for your grandmother even who likes the look of over cooked food.
Yes, they do. they suck this ass