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Getting Help Building Your Computer
An anonymous reader submitted an excellent story about getting help when assembling a PC from scratch. I'm sure many readers here know how harrowing the experience can be, and will appreciate this entertaining tale of lilliputians helping
in this rite of passage.
Here the first time i put my machine together i was worried to death about cracking my processor or pushing to hard. this guy has time to make a slide show out of it. Showoff.
The last time I told someone that a bunch of little green (and other colored people helped me put something together, it took me 3 weeks to get out of observation.
OS Software is like love: The best way to make it grow is to give it away.
Now only if I could train my legos to walk out of CompU$A with all the parts AND put it together, I could set up a nice racket.
I no longer have to stick in a couple dozen 64 K ram chips, or run debug to execute some code in a ROM chip on my MFM hard drive controller to partition a 20 MB Seagate drive. I don't even see nearly as many of those jumpers, and don't have to figure out whats on each IRQ. Good thing I can't swap those motherboard power plugs anymore. That made a funny sound.
...but how much static electricity did those little feet pick up?
Kudos to the mirror host, by the way.
Yeah, I have a webcomic...
The Oil Change
Linux User: "Fuck them, let them figure it out themselves and get their hanks cut on a cheap case. My modded nitrogen boxen runs great. Gentoo rocks! vi is best!
Vax User: "What? All computers come with COLOR? Heaven bless! CGI for everyone! 4 colors should be enough for anyone."
Lindows ala-Walmart User: "YeHaw! Easier than building my own plow! Ya'll come back now, ya hear?"
Windoze User: "Dude, I got a Dell. Let's run Windoze Update and watch TechTV."
Or the first P4 box that you build and you think you know how memory works but the blanks bite you in the ass and you spend hours before you RTFM. Yup that sucks.
Cypherpunks: Civil Liberty Through Complex Mathematics. Those who live by the sword die by the arrow.
That is the (at risk of sounding gay) cutest thing I've ever seen. I wonder how he managed to get the suckers to stand up, holding the various parts, without falling. Tape or glue or something?
SuPz.orG
I gave my lego men some parts that included a gig of RAM, a 120 gig HD, and a top of the line P4, and they gave my a 286 with 640k RAM, and a 20 meg HD. I tried to take them to small claims court, but it was thrown out since I did everything through word of mouth, and had nothing in writing, so just be careful with these people.
TechTV is like Comedy Central for geeks :)
Oh come off it, don't try to fool people with that old 'static electricity' scam. I bet you try to get people to stick their razor blades under a pyramid to sharpen them.
The whole thing was a crock we invented back in the 80s when the yields of the fabs was not exactly good. We told the customers who rang up to complain about a bad one 'static electricity'.
Then we hit on the idea of these stupid wrist bands. The guy who 'invented' those later on went on to 'invent' the abdominizer and magnasoles. They were originally made to sell to people visiting executions down in Florida when they still used the electic chair as part of a 'share the experience' package. Kindof a sicko idea I suppose.
If you don't believe me go put on your best rubber soled shoes and run up and down on a nylon carpet then ground yourself on the cpu of your PC that you removed earlier. Oh and while you have the thing out you can remove some of those sharp spiky pins we put on the back of them. No IC ever needed more than 8 pins, its a fact, we only added the others because it makes them look cool, you can remove the others with a pair of pliers.
Something else that most people don't know, you can fry most CPUs in a microwave for long periods of time without damaging them. Just make sure you wear a wrist band while you do so.
Only thing to watch out for is that you don't accidentally discharge the battery backup for the microcode while you are doing all this. That might cause your CPU to misfunction so experiment at your own risk!
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HA! You think you have it hard? I don't even have a computer! I just send and read voltages directly from each ethernet copper wire!
The heat comes down operation.
There is something sinister behind the scenes. For evidence, simply check out the second photo. In the background, near a pile of scrap, is a gruesome severed head! There's even a 1x2 puddle of blood!
The horror!
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Now really? Who else wanted to see the "Old Timer" get a little closer to that Athlon and say something like "Back in my day we had radiators to keep the house warm"?
HA! You think you have it hard? I don't even have copper wire! Try breaking into a NOC and reading slashdot straight from the fiber with your remaining eye!
The first time around is kinda tough... but if you've done it once, you can do it again easy enough.
Hey, kinda like sex.
Just have to make sure to RTFM...
*giggle*
Tune in for next week's episode:
"The Story of Andy's Lego Characters Stealing Dollars Out of Relatives' Wallets to Pay For Bandwidth".
Star Wars figures and Legos?!
WTF is that about?
I want to see a computer assembled by topless blondes that take breaks to make out with each other and have whipped cream parties.
Lego figures my ass.
There are some odd things afoot now, in the Villa Straylight.