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Abused, But Working Hardware Stories?
RPI Geek writes "Everyone's heard the stories about people who, knowingly or unknowingly, abuse their computers. Personally, I've had a faulty power supply literally burn a hole through the motherboard, with the only ill effects being a dead PCI slot and USB ports. I'm curious as to what kind of abuse fellow /.ers have done or seen done to electronics while the hardware still worked afterwards. Soldered a broken keyboard PCB back together so that it worked fine? Taken sticks of RAM out of a running computer to see when it would notice? Overclocked a 386... to 386MHz? I'm interested in hearing any stories about abused-but-working hardware."
No, an ARMED ROBBER came into MY HOUSE and BEAT ME WITH A HAMMER, and THEN I shot him, you IDIOT pACifist foreigner. If you have a problem with self-defense, I recommend you get yourself a white flag and wave it vigorously. Then, the criminals will assault you instead of me.
Damn, I could have shot him in the head if I'd known he had my calculator in his pocket.
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