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Getting Help Building Your Computer

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the everyone-needs-a-little-helping-hand dept.

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.

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  1. Harrowing? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    How hard is it? Slashdot: News for fucking idiots. Stuff that matters to idiots.

    1. Re:Harrowing? by brxndxn · · Score: 1, Troll

      You are an idiot.. You didn't even click the link - Otherwise you would have realized that it's funny as hell.

      Clever.

      --
      --- We need more Ron Paul!
  2. Whatever Happened to Burt Ward? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll
    For most people, there are not enough hours in the day, but they're not Burt Ward. "People will come around our house and say, 'I can't believe how much living is going on here!'" he says with a laugh. That's because the erstwhile Boy Wonder, from the hit 1960s series "Batman," only sleeps three hours daily, from 6 a.m. to 9 a.m. "When you're up twice as much as other people, it's like having two lives." So what does Ward, 56, do with his extra life? He spends his nights working on projects for his visual effects company named, appropriately, Boy Wonder Visual Effects, which he formed in July 2001, after more than a decade of study and frustration at the lack of roles coming his way. There may not be a lot going on for Ward in front of the camera, but Boy Wonder has worked on more than 20 movies to date (including 2001's "Legally Blonde" and the upcoming action-adventure film "Bulletproof Monk," starring Chow Yun-Fat). "This is a transition to becoming a major player in the visual effects world," Ward says proudly. Ward and his wife, Tracy, 40 (whom he met in 1989 when her father, the late corporate raider Victor Posner, sent her to take over Ward's educational video company; they married in 1990), also rescue abandoned Great Danes. In 1994, after moving from Los Angeles to rural Riverside County, the couple and their daughter, Melody, now 11, learned about the number of Great Danes in the area that needed homes. "With a Great Dane, if you take it to a shelter, it's too big for the cages and people are scared of a big dog even though they're sweet, and they're put to death," he explains. The family's 4,000-square-foot home and five acres of land became a refuge for the dogs; Ward estimates they have found homes for more than 3,500 in eight years. Even with his other pursuits, Ward has not given up acting entirely. In November, he will team up with "Batman" costar Adam West in the CBS movie "Back to the Batcave: The True Adventures of Adam West and Burt Ward," in which the former Caped Crusaders will fight crime once more -- but as themselves. "This is a bigger production than anything we did on 'Batman,'" Ward says. Ward has fond memories of his experience filming the "Batman" series, a period that he chronicled in a 1985 tell-all book, "Boy Wonder: My Life in Tights." "We partied together, we got in messes together," he says of his friendship with West. "It was a lot of fun." What wasn't fun was wearing his Robin outfit. "Those were the python pants -- they nearly squeezed me to death. And the cape strangled me," he says. Almost 40 years after debuting on "Batman," Ward, who is now a grandfather -- his daughter Lisa, 35, from his first marriage, has two kids, Kevin, 10, and Katy, 8 -- is content with the way his life has unfolded. "I'm very, very happy. I have a wonderful family, I have the most wonderful people I work with," he says. "I'm the kid in the candy store."
  3. So... by Anonvmous+Coward · · Score: 1, Troll

    ...anybody else notice the DPI on that Palm Pilot? I'm envious!

  4. How tough can it be? by NineNine · · Score: 1, Troll

    Hell, everything's integrated into the motherboard these days..

    Motherboard + CPU + RAM + HD + Case + keyboard & mouse. Plug everything in where it fits!

  5. Re:Katie Sierra should get the fucking CHAIR! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Well you should get the chair as well you fucking wannabe American KKK lovin' hick.

  6. hey mom check out this karma whore by redhotchil · · Score: -1, Troll

    http://home.rgv.rr.com/explodingpony/ding.html

  7. Sad news ... Stephen King dead at 54 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll


    I just heard some sad news on talk radio - Horror/Sci Fi writer Stephen King was found dead in his Maine home this morning. There weren't any more details. I'm sure everyone in the Slashdot community will miss him - even if you didn't enjoy his work, there's no denying his contributions to popular culture. Truly an American icon.

  8. Re:Here we go again... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    MOD PARENT UP...

    Hilarious!

  9. Re:this stupid crap is on the front page? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    How about suck my nards you fucking elitist fucking asshole. Fucking die. the "editors" here are cum guzzling queens who give no insight as to the contents of the article. i rarely follow links because most of the suck. i hate you, i hate the mediocrity here. i hate you. i want to fucking cram a hot curling iron in your ass. i want to whipe you with a garden hose.

    There is no fucking way that article is worth SHIT. Now im going to look at it. Hold on one moment.

    I now see that it was lamer than some gay shit on HardOCP, Toms or Anand. Its by far gayer than that. Its even gayer than M3DZone, NVNews and Guru3D. Its gayer than maybe you.

    its some fat, unwashed intel using sexless fag playing with plastic toys for attention on slashfuck. i thought this was stupid. any fat fag can get on slashfuck by doing stupid gay shit.

    You fools never use real hardware, or do real things with "computers." The state of affairs is sad, marketing, plastic toys, cardboard boxes, and shit crap errata ridden hardware that you fat geek fags worship. Fuck you and your trident video cards, and your gay NV25, and you XP5 Y 255509 Illudium Pew-39 Space Modulators.

    YOU ARE ALL FAGS.

  10. Re:Not bad by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    You are a retard.