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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'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 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. :-(
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.
45 5F E1 04 22 CA 29 C4 93 3F 95 05 2B 79 2A B2
To really seal the deal, see if you can VNC in full screen mode to a Mac, then let people come over and play with it!
Linux, you magnificent bastard, I read the fucking manual!
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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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)
Actually, my fish tank has a "In case of emergency break glass" sticker off a fire alarm.
Unknown host pong.
There are Windows zealots?
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"
I want to see someone stick an "Intel Inside" logo on the gate to an embassy.
For large sets, this will be our guide even unto death, for the LORD will work for each type of data it is applied to...