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The Funniest Places for Hardware Stickers?
Nice2Cats asks: "So after buying another piece of computer hardware, I am stuck with more of those stickers that some silly person in marketing actually thinks I'm going to slap on my computer. The problem is, I'm running out of other places to put then (throwing them away would show a lack of creativity, and is out of the question). I already have one on my drill ('Sound by Hercules') and my table saw is 'Dual BIOS'; I also probably have the world's only vacuum sweeper and lawn mower that claim to be made by Apple. I don't want the stuff on my car, my wife draws the line at our toilet cover -- where have other Slashdot readers put these stickers? Where is the most awesome place you have seen, say, that white Apple?"
However, our fridge at work has over 300 processors on it now...
stored on computers from birth to the grave
I put my Apple sticker on my Nalgene water bottle. It's pretty darned close to the same shade of white as the volume measurements on the side, so it blends in perfectly.
Personally, I like the back of my laptop. Mine informs people that "Opening this product will void the warranty" and "Run CD First before connecting cables".
Tluin natha Linux xxizzuss uriu olt bwael mon'tun.
I'm fond of putting "Designed for Microsoft Windows"
stickers on trash cans and shredding machines.
My old philips Nino was a rare, custom made Pentium III model. Yup, the sticker made it faster.
vk.
while visiting a friend I noticed a 'Designed for Windows XP' sticker at the :)
toilet flusher button. I couldn't think of a better place
I'm actually trying to collect random computer stickers for my Guitar Hero controller. The game box comes with a sheet of stickers that you can use to decorate the guitar controller, but they're fairly boring and generic. I want one that stands out a bit more.
Shades of Grayden
On the inside of a bathroom stall at Novell, there's a 'Using Mono!' sticker. Right where your eyes fall when you're sitting there, er, using mono.
Some wag put this sticker on here at work. It's genuine (and not just placed there for this slashdot story) but I only finally took tyhe picture when this subject came up. Enjoy!
Bus error in your favour. Collect 200kB
Many of the "Intel Inside", "Designed for Microsoft Windows", and such stickers are great for putting on urinals and public toilets.
/. strips the &tm; entity?)
Or, slap them on the back or sides of a ricercar when nobody is looking - obviously an "Intel Inside" sticker must be good for another 20HP.
(OT: did you know that
www.eFax.com are spammers
From back in the day, when I was working IT Support in a chemical plant,
I have an "official" IBM 80386 Memory Expansion hard hat.
My current laptop is a dual function unit. Not only is it Thinkpad,
it's also a 10000-watt UPS, specifically an APC Smart-UPS 10000.
I've put the warming sticker from our rack enclosure on the entrance to my cube, informing visitors in 13 different languages that "enclosure may become unstable if more than one component is extended at one time".
Just trying to warn lUsers that visiting my cube carries a 'Risk of Personal Injury'. ^_^
____
~ |rip/\/\aster /\/\onkey
I put a white Apple logo on the side of my PC, just for the fun of seeing people's heads asplode.
Another one bites the dust
I put one of the AMD stickers that came with a boxed AMD processor on a co-workers (QA) Apple G5 machine. It looked pretty native and later as Steve Jobs announced the move to the Intel based Macs, my co-workers told me that my prophecy was utterly wrong. :-(
On my kettle. It boils *real* quick! :)
grnbrg.
Designed for Windows sticker on the trashcan, that's a regular. I do it whenever I see one. But a warning label about risk of irritation and all kinds of such warnings on the Windows CD (label taken from a pepper spray can), Intel Inside Pentium III on my pocket calculator, and neat "barbed wire" sticker on the firewall are some of nicer applications.
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This sounds like a Fark or SA photoshop thread. Too bad /. doesn't allow pics...
[o]_O
Place the "Intel Inside(R)" sticker on your inflatable doll's bottom parts.
I've submitted questions that actually ask something halfway important to me and where rejected. Now we're reading about what to do with stickers?!?! Give me a break. I'm seriously about to bail on this website even though I've been reading it for years. What the hell do I care about where to put a damn sticker? Shove it up your ass for all I care. Intel Inside that
I stick them all underneath my desk, on the side of the drawer block. It fills up after a while, but then they move me to a new office around the same time, so it all works out.
What I'm listening to now on Pandora...
I have a "Designed for Windows 2000" sticker on my stapler.
I'd give my right arm to be ambidextrous.
I slapped the "Dual Bios" sticker from one of my older motherboards on the side of our thermostat. Just in case one of the BIOSes breaks down or something...
Tim Dorr
Owner/Manger
A Small Orange
Runs on intel inside, and have a geforce5FX sticker for better water flush effects.
Why would you want to stick an Intel Inside sticker on a piece of music? I don't get it.
on the back of my black office chair on wheels... or is that my co-worker? Back in the late 60's my uncle had every automotive sticker, from STP to Hooker Headers on his bicycle, I thought it was damn cool, but I was 4 then.... everything he did was cool!
Sig Hansen?
Some bonehead ordered us to replace our Linux-based firewalls with Cisco PIX systems because "we're not supposed to use PC's as firewalls".
Oddly enough, the PIX (which, near as we can tell, is basically a PIII system running off of a flash drive) is one of the very few Pentium-based boxes I've ever seen which doesn't ship with a Intel Inside sticker. Now corrected.
c.
Log in or piss off.
You should browse at -1 sometime, you'll be thankful we don't have images on slashdot.
Dell sent me a big book of hard drive stickers, they say things like "100 GB 7200 Ultra 320" I guess they are supposed to go on those removeable hard drive enclosures in all thepoweredge 2850's we have. But, they didn't send us any stickers in the sizes of drives we actually have.
:-)
So, now all the office phones have "36GB 10K Ultra 320 SCSI" drives in them, and most of the monitors sport sexy 300 gig drives.
--Nuintari
slashdot : where an opinion can be wrong.
In the bin, not on it.
-- Cheers!
I have a coin-op arcade 25 cents, push to reject sticker on my PC.
One line blog. I hear that they're called Twitters now.
Hmmm... one of the guys in my squadron put a "Intel Pentium III Inside" sticker on the back of my flight helmet. I had "outed" myself as a nerd long before so I left it... it's still there.
"It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance." - Thomas Sowell
;if i were a NLD user, i might enjoy subverting the 'designed for windows' decal with novell's version.
;treehead
"If any part Linux was stolen, then Windows was the biggest heist in history."
I attached a Pentium 90 MHz chip to the dashboard of my old Mitsubishi Eclipse. It failed to produce noticable performance benefits, though.
>Speed of light: air=299792458m/s; vacuum=299702547m/s
It seems that air is speeding up your light. It looks like you might have those values reversed...
"It's tough to be bilingual when you get hit in the head."
The win98 "Where do you want to go today?" I was forced to buy with my laptop is still firmly attached to my trashbin. It has outlived the software that came with it for over 5 years, and is still holding on tight.
I've been known to randomly place stickes on co-workers' cars. It's one of the more common office pranks here. One of our tech support technican's pick up says "Intel Pentium III", which is very funny considering that the thing barely runs. He's really good at fixing computers...not so good with his truck. Our administrative assistant's car says "Cable managment by Panduit" and "NOC'd out by Extreme Networks".
We've also been known to make stickers...like the one that mysteriously ended up on our boss' car "Ask me about my penis enlargement."
2 cents,
Queen B
HDGary secures my bank
A Behringer sticker on the back helped a lot more (keeps the cable plugged in), and the girls particularly like the neck sticker that says "Choose 3 of your favorite songs and save BIG!"
I hope I didn't brain my damage.
My Rubbish Bin was "Designed for Windows XP" and my Nephew's Skateboard boasts the old Rainbow Apple (From my old A2E)
My life is either one big analogy, or one big wine stain. I can't tell these days ~Amber one night in a bar.
...and my inhaler is powered by a Pentium 4, according to the sticker :)
You are more than the sum of what you consume. Desire is not an occupation.
I've got a Dell coffee cup that somehow got a white apple directly over the dell logo. Either way, the coffee tastes like crap, but its good for a laugh now and then. Waiting for an apple rep to notice and get me a real cup one day. P
-- My dog can beat up your dog.
Why is it that Novell's site goes into a redirect loop whenever I try to access it with their own OS and browser? Using KDE 3.4.0 Level "b" SUSE 9.3 nothing at novell.com diplays. The site goes into a redirect loop with the language page. That sucks!
Yea, it works with Firefox but, there is no excuse for it to not work with Konqueror. It use to.
anybody seen an ati-powered fish tank? it looks just like the real thing!
also, both of my dogs are running pentium 4's (well, their collars are, anyway)
i figured it was the best place for them, espically after all those "Core dumps" in my yard.
Cogito Eggo Sum, I think therefore I'm a waffle
All of my stickers go onto toolboxes. They're non obtrusive, and they look OK there.
-Turkey
Don't you know a benchmarked kettle never gives output?
"The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the pieces." --Aldo Leopold (Paraphrased)
%^)
Although I am not sure if this is classed as hardware or software....
I put an old rainbow Apple sticker and and equally old Elephant Memory Systems sticker on one of my high power rockets, and sent them past Mach 1. The (vinyl) Apple sticker came back on the rocket. The (paper) EMS sticker is still up there for all I know.
"I may be synthetic, but I'm not stupid." -- Bishop 341-B
My friend had an ancient Compaq laptop (like the kind we used to sell at a place I used to work, so it was very recognizable and just screams OLD!!! to me) and I'd always do a double-take at the "Designed for Windows XP" sticker he put on it. ("Wait... Compaq is making laptops with trackballs again? Oh, right...") So a few months ago I pulled a "Pentium 4 HT" sticker off a machine at work (it was kinda coming off anyway) and stuck it neatly on my G3 iBook's wrist rest.
:-)
First it was just a joke, but now that Apple has made their announcement, I tell people it's a prototype.
Dear Slashdot: next time you want to mess with the site, add a rich-text editor for comments.
I put mine (actually, it was given to me) on the front of my SPARCstation, covering the Sun logo, but not the word "Sun".
:)
(Of course, my SS is actually running Linux, but that's another story. If I owned a Mac, it would be running Linux too.)
I was just thinking how nice it was that I'd read nearly all the comments for an ask-slashdot, and there hadn't been a single post that was offtopic. Everyone had stuck to the question. And it was nice to have a less serious question for once, as a change to the "Save me 5 big ones on a consultant" ones we usually get.
:-)
Not that there is anything wrong with those questions, it just makes it interesting to see what people get up to in their spare time. Glad to see more off this type of question recently.
You do stick 'Designed for Windows' stickers on the trashcans in your break don't you?
Anyway, the reading without trolls, it was just due to the moderation, here at the bottom of the comments is the troll. Or three. So few people have commented, the flame war hasn't started yet. The trivial comment that should be moderated Offtopic hasn't been written and moderated Insightful either, with 5 followups rated similar also not existing. Signal is up, noise is down.
Well, it seems fashionable to slag-off Slashdot recently. Don't confuse this with that, I still love Slashdot, even the things which people are complaining about. Its not about the news; that tagline is just to draw you into what Slashdot is really all about.
Sorry, should be putting this in my blog, but just wanted to show there was another side to the droves that claim to be leaving. Now make me offtopic
For years I've had a "Design for use with Windows 2000" sticker on my magic 8-ball at my desk. A couple of years ago it gained a "Designed for use with Windows XP" sticker as well. "Will the machine Blue Screen today?" (shake shake) "It is certain".
-- John
...to put on my spiffy new Apple Developer's Transition Kit?
Preferably one that will be hard to remove when Apple receives it back at the end of 2006?
"How to Do Nothing," kids activities, back in print!
I once built a MacQuarium out of a Mac Plus. This was just before the PowerPC was released and the Mac Quadras and PowerBooks were shipping with big, red "Ready for PowerPC Upgrade!" stickers. My co-worker slapped one on the front of my MacQuarium. It's still there.
signat-url: http://www2.potsdam.edu/dctm/prescor/signat-url.h
I used to have a "No User Serviceable Components Inside" sticker on my motorcycle helmet.
I took the Centrino sticker off my laptop and put it on one of our older servers here. The "Designed for Microsoft Windows XP" sticker went on the can of compressed air.
Opening yourself up for that one. Anyway, I have Apple stickers on my guitar and amplifier. I have a GNU snowboard with penguin stickers, php, perl, and Linux. I think the best place however was not a sticker but fake tattoos. My 4-year old daughter and I sported RedHat tattoos for a week.
Flexible bare-metal recovery for Linux/UNIX
I put my AMD sticker that came with my X2 processor on my girlfriend's *cough* "toy"
I've had a Intel Inside Pentium 4 "sticker" on my Ipod Mini since I got it back when they came out.
My 1960s era turntable has a carefully placed Intel Inside sticker on the front face. It does turn a few heads, but only the really observant ones. I think most of us just instinctively tune those things out.
... on fruit.
Put them on bananas and apples at the grocery store.
I have an Intel Xeon sticker on my PIII 700 laptop. That's it. I lost all the Asus, ATI, and Intel stickers I got while building my last computer.
Would that be an Apple iSuck vacuum you have there?
Tibbon
tibbon.com
My former employer DC'ed some Tandem (Now HP Non-stop) servers, called Himalaya K1000's.
p /casestudy/nttdata/images/08.gif
VERY expensive machines when new. Nice black roll around case about 5 feet high, 2 wide, with a swing open front door. I took it home, gutted out all the internals, and now it contains not only my PC internals, but also an HP/UX 133MHZ system, and a beer cooler in the bottom.
And a nice Intel Inside sticker!
Here is the pic!
http://h50146.www5.hp.com/products/servers/nonsto
AC
I have an iBong, and I must say that I *do* think different when I use it.
Who is General Failure and why is he reading my hard disk?
sports Centrino and my laptop has a Mt Olive Pickle processor.
Someone hates these cans.
All of the toilets in my house read "Designed for Windows XP".
-I like my women like I like my tea: green-
I took my computer's on an airplane once, and the box was checked by the TSA. They stuck a nice holographic sticker on the box, but I relocated it onto the case. Now my computer has a "Inspected by the Transportation Security Agency" sticker on it. It really makes great conversations.. Oh, and I stick Pentium 4 stickers on floppy disks. They overheat, are slow, inefficient,and are overpriced, so it fits. :)
(I hope this is not moderated by an Intel fan..)
Fighting ignorance with ignorance.
This won't really work if your not in school, but a couple of my friends got ahold of a couple of "Intel Inside P4" and "Made for Windows XP" stickers and stuck them to some of the most ancient computers in the labs. They also took the "Pentium II" and "Made for Windows 98" stickers off the old machines and put them on some of the faster machines. Worked fairly well to keep a lot of the clueless off some of the better computers.
Famous Last Words: "hmm...wikipedia says it's edible"
The funniest sticker I have seen was taken off of a ladder and modified to say "Failure to follow instructions may result in injury or death". The modified sticker was then placed on a Foreman's Hard Hat.
I've got an "Intel inside Pentium !!!" sticker over top of the irritatingly bright blue Logitech logo on the top of my giant Logitech mouse (the one that comes closest to fitting my hand). Can still see a bit of the blue glow from behind the word "Intel".
I remember seeing a toaster that deserves a "Celeron Inside" sticker.
"it's not about aptitude, it's the way you're viewed" - Galinda
Before I moved and lost it, I had a "450 watts of crushing power" sticker that was on my blender, that I stuck on the fridge. Perhaps it would have been funnier on my brother's truck.. =)
Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together.
The office microwave has an Apple sticker on the door. I suppose that would make in an iNuke.
My Nextel Motorola i836 has a nice Intel Pentium 4 HT Sticker on the back of it. Gets about as hot as one too...:P People actually ask me if there is a P4 in there too. Gives me a laugh every time.
I have for years now carried a few stickers printed on a laser printer with address labels...
ATTENTION: ToiletCam is for research purposes only.
I stick them on the back side of toilet stalls or in spots one would only find after a while of.... uh sitting.
THE WORLD IS GOING TO END!!!! eventually.
It seems to get a laugh.
Well, I've got a wind up alarm clock with 'Intel Inside' on it :)
I like the systems I build to sport AMD and GIGABYTE just above the power button. I don't know about a windows sticker I've never seen one of those??? Mepis Linux should have a sticker you can print out or Fedora. Someone should start making stickers for all the open source projects and selling them on ebay. I could start putting them on the left case panel. Fedora, Mepis, PClinux, SuSe, DSL, Knoppix, MythTV, K9copy, FireFox, etc... Well I guess space is limited while OSS is UNLIMITED.
I spent two weeks with it on untill someoen noticed and had me remove it
on my M-16
from an old HP DLT drive (in a nice military style khaki)
"operate lever only when the operate light is on"
As of Postgres v6.2, time travel is no longer supported.
I have a black bass guitar that sports a single white apple sticker right below the neck joint. Nice contrast.
this is getting old and so are you
blog
I had the rainbow/clear apple sticker from my Apple ][e on my 3-foot clear blue Grafx.
I've got a white apple on the back of my silver motorcycle helmet. I keep telling people its my "iHelmet". Strangely, nobody laughs. Well, one guy did.
In Soviet Russia, the signature reads YOU!
I'd imagne you could have some fun with that if you could find/make one.
Religion is a gateway psychosis. -- Dave Foley
My brother had a "powered by Microsoft Windows" sticker on his toilet which he put there because it would "crash" and dump water all over the floor if he tried to "squeeze" maximum performance.
Often I would hear "GODDAMN MICROSOFT CRASHED MY TOILET AGAIN" coming from his room.
I put a three of those neat stickers on my Latitude CP. Rather fitting too for it's on it's 3rd hard drive..
First rule of holes; When in one, stop digging.
It's software causing hardware...
thx. corrected.
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My Mac has a Celeron Inside sticker. It's also designed for the Intel Tualatin chipset.
My Mac lives in an ex-PC case and the previous inhabitant sported a Tualatin Celeron. Now it's a dual G4.
If Apple didn't prefer form over function, the Sawtooth case would have let me have 2 optical drives and enough space for decent cooling.
I had the apple logo tattoed on my "member," because it's stylish and "just works" every time.
I put them on my computers. I have a couple that are completely covered
"When life gives you lemons, don't make lemonade. Make life take the lemons back!" -- Cave Johnson
Since everyone's getting a bit off topic anyway, I guess I'll be fine sharing my own weird "stickers":
Superior Magikarp (main computer) – 2.4GHz, 512MB RAM, 80GB disk, Ultima Linux. Desktop machine, black tower case with blue highlights and a handle on top. Sticker is a Slaking Pokemon card on the top of the case, right by said handle. I really am lazy. There's also Tuxette, the U.L. mascot, on the monitor, along with another penguin sticker and a "Frank & Ernest" cartoon my friend gave me.
Micron XPE out of Hell – 133MHz, 80MB RAM, 6GB disk, Ultima Linux. This laptop's survived everything. Permanently glued a giant picture of Tuxette, the Ultima logo, on the back underneath the Micron logo, since I wanted something to look cool when the screen was opened and I figured I may as well promote myself.
Currently unnamed Dell system – 700MHz, 128MB RAM, 10GB disk, Ultima Linux. Optiplex system purchased from eBay (just $55!) to demo everyone's favorite operating system as part of a school project in April. Replaced the original DfMW2K sticker with a smaller version of Tuxette. It was appropriate enough.
Hmm, maybe my Windows stickers should go on my toilet, since everyone else puts them there.
Creative misinterpretation is your friend.
while not exactly a hardware sticker, this is still somewhat marginally apropos...in the building where i worked for a NASA project whilst I was an undergrad, someone had stuck a Powered by Microsoft Windows sticker on the top of the urinal.
I used to be able to get a hold of tons of the old PII and PIII metal stickers so they are on everything in my house. Speakers, TV, DVD player, you name it, it's driven by pentium. Even my wallet has Pentium III inside. My laptop on the other hand has a huge orange "Biohazard - May contain sharps" sticker on it.
"Yeah, that's only going to happen when a paper dog sucessfully chases an asbestos cat through hell." The Chosen One
Hey, it was a long time ago. It seemed cool at the time.