had rotted the electronics to the point the parts nearly fell off the board
I once worked for a computer rental company in florida. We had some original pc-xts a ta phosphorous mining operation. When we replaced the computers to upgrade them, the black components including the front of the floppy drives had been bleached to a light grey. There was enough dust on the motherboard to bury all the components. The machines still worked.
He starts pacing around, handling the various antiques and oddities one rarely sees except in a rustic environment like this.
I once was asked to recover data from a dead dinosaur unix box in flora, illinois. The machine had no ethernet connection and the only way in or out of the box was through a scsi tape drive. I took the tape drive out of the box and asked if they knew anyone with a linux box. They took me to the town computer store, which was a guy in a double-wide. Half was a computer store, the other half was a wood shop where he made banjos. We sat and listened to the computer repair shop owner play the banjo as the tape restored in the other room. Only in America.
A Troublesome Printer was usually treated with Boot Therapy
This reminds me of two more experiences. While working at a computer rental store, we had a number of compaq 386 computers. They used connor hard drives. Conner blew it and put the wrong grease on the spindle of the drives. When they got cold overnight in an office, the grease would glue the platters in place so that the drives wouldn't spin up. The fix was to hit the drive just as you turned on the power.
At the same place, we had a number of ps/2 model 50s. Some would stop working from time to time. The fix was to disassemble and reassemble them.
I once worked for a computer rental company in orlando. We stacked 20 pc-at keayboards near the roll-up door in the back to be loaded in the morning. When we came in in the morning, a colony of red ants had moved into the keayboards. I guess they were feasting on years worth of crumbs between the keys. I used cans of compressed air to blow all the ants out.
At the same place, I was picking up pc-ats and lifting them over my head to be place on their side on a shelf 6' above the concrete floor. I lost my grip on one and it fell to the floor. The face broke off on impact. It booted and worked just the same.
While working at another company, one of our customers tried to install their own scsi tape drive. The managed to put the ribbon cable on backwards. I guess it tied one of the wires in the middle of the ribbon to ground. It got hot enough to melt the insulation off that wire. The ribbon cable was split down the middle with this one wire with no insulation. He replaced the ribbon cable and put it on the right way. The controller and tape drive still worked.
I had a 486dx2-50 notebook. It was a monster with a black and white lcd display. It used desktop 3.5" hard drives.
First, I updraged the drive from 200megs to 1gig.
Then I bought the expansion bay which was really a box with 2 isa slots in it. I put a 16550 board in one of the slots so I could use a 14.4 modem. That left one slot which I filled with a new isa video board so I could get more than 16 colors in windows.
That left no slots for a sound card. And I still had no way to get a cdrom. So I split the case on the expansion bay and got a riser board from a packard bell slim desktop case. I plugged the riser board into one of the slots, then plugged the video board and sound card with cdrom controller into another slot. Then put the cdrom drive in a separate case with an old 386sx motherboard to appease the power supply. Then I ran a ribbon cable from the controller on the sound card to the cdrom drive in the separate case. If I turned it all on at once, it worked just fine.
A friend of mine worked a summer job in a paint factory where they canned spray paint. He loaded labels into the machine. Same cans of paint, it was the labels that determined whether it was a high end brand or some random house brand.
I once worked for a company that did manufacturing software. We were getting a tour of a tire plant. We were shown the room with the finished labeled tires. There were "gold" and "silver" tires with different warrantee periods. We asked what the difference between the tires was. They responded, "$50". We said, "no, we mean the technical differences." They said, "$50."
When you Wal-Mart or Safeway batteries, there is a good chance you are actually buying an Energizer or Duracel.
The way the gasoline distribution network works in the US, you have no way of knowing which company produced the gasoline, redarless of which station you go to. All of the gasoline is comingled into the same pipeline and transferred around the country. What comes out at the other end and put in the shell or exxon truck may have been refined by bp. The only difference is the additives.
I recently adopted a child from Siberia (Novosibirsk). I read slashdot from the hotel there. It was last november. 30 below. I also AIMed friends at work at 1am, 1pm in chicago.
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Two ways of saying the same thing, one is antagonistic, the other is constructive.
To generalize, you always need to avoid placing blame, even when it's clearly their fault. Always give people an out. And never criticize when it's unnecessary. No one ever has a bad idea. People have always excellent ideas, but what if we did this instead, and let them decide that it's a better idea.
The key here is that most people are very worried about how they're perceived politcally in their job. If you always give people a way to save face, they'll appreciate it. They may not be consious of why they like you, but they'll behave the right way when it come time for them to either back you up or stab you in the back.
Oh ya, and my friend's credit was STILL bad 2 years later from that stuff, even though all parties knew what had happened.
This is because the Fair Isaac credit score has nothing to do with how good a customer you are. It's a measure of how likely a creditor is to make money from you. This is why if you keep paying your loans off after only a few months, you get a bad score. This is also why the reporting agencies were so reluctant to tell people how the score is calculated. If you're an identity theft victim, you're a bad risk for the creditor because they can't be sure you're really you. They're more likely to lose money from whoever is presenting your indentifying information. Works as designed.
This is yet another reason why credit card companies are scams. They're loan sharks, nothing more. Credit card companies in the US need heavy regulation. It will never happen though.
Well, yes, but complaining about that is like complaining that the green glowing symbols that are supposed to be the representation of The Matrix make no sense from a software perspective.
If you speak japanese and use a mirror, they start to make sense!
While she's busy in the birthing room screaming in agony, go out in the lounge and watch some SG-1!
When my wife was in labor with our second child, there was a tv in the delivery room on over her. It was playing a particularly good episode of ST:TNG. Me and the nurse were both glued to the tv. I think my wife still hasn't forgiven me for that one.
People have done this from time immemorial in raiding the new years and mid year sales at department stores they don't otherwise shop at
My wife regularly does this to clothe our soon-to-be six children. She never pays more than a dollar or two for any of their clothes. How? She shops for them six months out of phase. She buys winter clothes in summer and summer clothes in winter slightly larger so they will fit six months later.
(Incidentally they feed us BS saying that the real reason they issue cards is because those customers who have them tend to be more loyal and spend more than on your standard everyday credit card, but if that was the case why charge so much interest?)
Really? I think it's partially because they want to charge ridiculous interest rates. Bit I think it's also for this reason:
Try buying something there on six or twelve months no interest plan. Then wait a number of months, then buy something else on a similar plan. When you send in your payment, enough to cover both minimums, can anyone guess what they do? Anyone? They apply the entire mount to the latest purchase making you "miss" your minimum payment on the oldest one. This allows them to nail you for 25% back to the beginning. I've had numerous angry phone calls with them over this.
Of course, this should be no surprise. Credit card companies are loan sharks anyway. I simply don't use any of them anymore.
... and that should have a negative affect on corn futures. In other news, three marines were tragically killed today in a fire-fight when they were tele-fragged by Corporal NanoGator. Officials have opened an investigation into the placement of the respawn point. Corporal NanoGator was respawning after being shot dead elsewhere on the battlefield.
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had rotted the electronics to the point the parts nearly fell off the board
I once worked for a computer rental company in florida. We had some original pc-xts a ta phosphorous mining operation. When we replaced the computers to upgrade them, the black components including the front of the floppy drives had been bleached to a light grey. There was enough dust on the motherboard to bury all the components. The machines still worked.
He starts pacing around, handling the various antiques and oddities one rarely sees except in a rustic environment like this.
I once was asked to recover data from a dead dinosaur unix box in flora, illinois. The machine had no ethernet connection and the only way in or out of the box was through a scsi tape drive. I took the tape drive out of the box and asked if they knew anyone with a linux box. They took me to the town computer store, which was a guy in a double-wide. Half was a computer store, the other half was a wood shop where he made banjos. We sat and listened to the computer repair shop owner play the banjo as the tape restored in the other room. Only in America.
A Troublesome Printer was usually treated with Boot Therapy
This reminds me of two more experiences. While working at a computer rental store, we had a number of compaq 386 computers. They used connor hard drives. Conner blew it and put the wrong grease on the spindle of the drives. When they got cold overnight in an office, the grease would glue the platters in place so that the drives wouldn't spin up. The fix was to hit the drive just as you turned on the power.
At the same place, we had a number of ps/2 model 50s. Some would stop working from time to time. The fix was to disassemble and reassemble them.
I have three similar stories.
I once worked for a computer rental company in orlando. We stacked 20 pc-at keayboards near the roll-up door in the back to be loaded in the morning. When we came in in the morning, a colony of red ants had moved into the keayboards. I guess they were feasting on years worth of crumbs between the keys. I used cans of compressed air to blow all the ants out.
At the same place, I was picking up pc-ats and lifting them over my head to be place on their side on a shelf 6' above the concrete floor. I lost my grip on one and it fell to the floor. The face broke off on impact. It booted and worked just the same.
While working at another company, one of our customers tried to install their own scsi tape drive. The managed to put the ribbon cable on backwards. I guess it tied one of the wires in the middle of the ribbon to ground. It got hot enough to melt the insulation off that wire. The ribbon cable was split down the middle with this one wire with no insulation. He replaced the ribbon cable and put it on the right way. The controller and tape drive still worked.
I had a 486dx2-50 notebook. It was a monster with a black and white lcd display. It used desktop 3.5" hard drives.
First, I updraged the drive from 200megs to 1gig.
Then I bought the expansion bay which was really a box with 2 isa slots in it. I put a 16550 board in one of the slots so I could use a 14.4 modem. That left one slot which I filled with a new isa video board so I could get more than 16 colors in windows.
That left no slots for a sound card. And I still had no way to get a cdrom. So I split the case on the expansion bay and got a riser board from a packard bell slim desktop case. I plugged the riser board into one of the slots, then plugged the video board and sound card with cdrom controller into another slot. Then put the cdrom drive in a separate case with an old 386sx motherboard to appease the power supply. Then I ran a ribbon cable from the controller on the sound card to the cdrom drive in the separate case. If I turned it all on at once, it worked just fine.
A friend of mine worked a summer job in a paint factory where they canned spray paint. He loaded labels into the machine. Same cans of paint, it was the labels that determined whether it was a high end brand or some random house brand.
I once worked for a company that did manufacturing software. We were getting a tour of a tire plant. We were shown the room with the finished labeled tires. There were "gold" and "silver" tires with different warrantee periods. We asked what the difference between the tires was. They responded, "$50". We said, "no, we mean the technical differences." They said, "$50."
When you Wal-Mart or Safeway batteries, there is a good chance you are actually buying an Energizer or Duracel.
The way the gasoline distribution network works in the US, you have no way of knowing which company produced the gasoline, redarless of which station you go to. All of the gasoline is comingled into the same pipeline and transferred around the country. What comes out at the other end and put in the shell or exxon truck may have been refined by bp. The only difference is the additives.
I read that as 67 tons of poo, which is about what my 3 toddlers produce in a given month
Good thing my son's diapers say up to 22 pounds.
I used my commodore 64 from afghanistan. :-D
I recently adopted a child from Siberia (Novosibirsk). I read slashdot from the hotel there. It was last november. 30 below. I also AIMed friends at work at 1am, 1pm in chicago.
Two ways of saying the same thing, one is antagonistic, the other is constructive.
To generalize, you always need to avoid placing blame, even when it's clearly their fault. Always give people an out. And never criticize when it's unnecessary. No one ever has a bad idea. People have always excellent ideas, but what if we did this instead, and let them decide that it's a better idea.
The key here is that most people are very worried about how they're perceived politcally in their job. If you always give people a way to save face, they'll appreciate it. They may not be consious of why they like you, but they'll behave the right way when it come time for them to either back you up or stab you in the back.
I think they should be looking for subspace beakons
why bother with brains when your gonads work well? ... it don't take much to reach that point.
Man, you must have some huge balls.
Believe me, wifey is taxing enough. That bitch won't stop nagging me.
Oh ya, and my friend's credit was STILL bad 2 years later from that stuff, even though all parties knew what had happened.
This is because the Fair Isaac credit score has nothing to do with how good a customer you are. It's a measure of how likely a creditor is to make money from you. This is why if you keep paying your loans off after only a few months, you get a bad score. This is also why the reporting agencies were so reluctant to tell people how the score is calculated. If you're an identity theft victim, you're a bad risk for the creditor because they can't be sure you're really you. They're more likely to lose money from whoever is presenting your indentifying information. Works as designed.
This is yet another reason why credit card companies are scams. They're loan sharks, nothing more. Credit card companies in the US need heavy regulation. It will never happen though.
(And yeah, that's a real example.)
Here's my favorite example. I have five, soon to be six kids. I need this now!
PC LOAD LETTER? What the fuck does that mean? The last time a printer told me that, i took it out in a field and beat it with a baseball bat.
Well, yes, but complaining about that is like complaining that the green glowing symbols that are supposed to be the representation of The Matrix make no sense from a software perspective.
If you speak japanese and use a mirror, they start to make sense!
While she's busy in the birthing room screaming in agony, go out in the lounge and watch some SG-1!
When my wife was in labor with our second child, there was a tv in the delivery room on over her. It was playing a particularly good episode of ST:TNG. Me and the nurse were both glued to the tv. I think my wife still hasn't forgiven me for that one.
People have done this from time immemorial in raiding the new years and mid year sales at department stores they don't otherwise shop at
My wife regularly does this to clothe our soon-to-be six children. She never pays more than a dollar or two for any of their clothes. How? She shops for them six months out of phase. She buys winter clothes in summer and summer clothes in winter slightly larger so they will fit six months later.
(Incidentally they feed us BS saying that the real reason they issue cards is because those customers who have them tend to be more loyal and spend more than on your standard everyday credit card, but if that was the case why charge so much interest?)
Really? I think it's partially because they want to charge ridiculous interest rates. Bit I think it's also for this reason:
Try buying something there on six or twelve months no interest plan. Then wait a number of months, then buy something else on a similar plan. When you send in your payment, enough to cover both minimums, can anyone guess what they do? Anyone? They apply the entire mount to the latest purchase making you "miss" your minimum payment on the oldest one. This allows them to nail you for 25% back to the beginning. I've had numerous angry phone calls with them over this.
Of course, this should be no surprise. Credit card companies are loan sharks anyway. I simply don't use any of them anymore.
A case mod with a built-in bong would work much better
Heh, shows what I know. I thought the water was for cooling the cpu, not cooling the user.
Now the option actually exists for me to play Doom3
Forget Doom 3! Longhorn!
the elder Mr. Simpson's car putatively ran at 0.002 mpg.
Back when I had my suburban, I used to tell people that the mileage was so bad, you had to measure it in gallons per mile.
... and that should have a negative affect on corn futures. In other news, three marines were tragically killed today in a fire-fight when they were tele-fragged by Corporal NanoGator. Officials have opened an investigation into the placement of the respawn point. Corporal NanoGator was respawning after being shot dead elsewhere on the battlefield.