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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
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".
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I'm fond of putting "Designed for Microsoft Windows"
stickers on trash cans and shredding machines.
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
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
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'. ^_^
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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 visted a Holiday Gas Station in the middle of Minnesota (about a year ago) and while using the restroom, being astonished to see a poster with all the java classes / packages on the inside door of the restroom.
What was funnier, was that someone had updated it by drawing in a couple of new additions and other made-up classes (javax.swing.phonesex). I remember thinking - WTF? Who thinks about java while taking a dump... talk about an extreme programmer.
There is always a frontier where there is an open and willing mind
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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Place the "Intel Inside(R)" sticker on your inflatable doll's bottom parts.
I have a "Designed for Windows 2000" sticker on my stapler.
I'd give my right arm to be ambidextrous.
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
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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.
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.
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
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
Actually, my fish tank has a "In case of emergency break glass" sticker off a fire alarm.
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I used to have a "No User Serviceable Components Inside" sticker on my motorcycle helmet.
I put my AMD sticker that came with my X2 processor on my girlfriend's *cough* "toy"
Would that be an Apple iSuck vacuum you have there?
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My former employer DC'ed some Tandem (Now HP Non-stop) servers, called Himalaya K1000's.
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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
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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?
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"
It's software causing hardware...