I can't wait until they figure out how to telemarket via Voice-over-IP!
I can see it now...Futurama Season 17 Episode 21 (you know, after Microsoft buys Fox, MicroFox tries to incorporate Futurama into its 'hip' image by bringing it back to life in the year 2018 when two-dimensional cartoons are considered barbaric):
Leela: "Didn't you have telemarketers in the twentieth century?" Fry: "Well, sure, but not via VoIP. Only on TV and radio...and in magazines...and on the phone, and in movies, and at ballgames, and on MSN Messenger, and on buses, and door-to-door salesmen, and milk cartons, and T-shirts, and bananas, and written in the sky. But not via VoIP, no sirree."
So far I've been unlucky enough to have two systems go ablaze, and they've been fairly dust-free for most of their operating lives -- I tend to dust (and vacuum) them every month or so.
The first was a dual-processor Pentium II board that caught fire around an inductor about a year ago. Thankfully, the case was closed and the little blaze starved itself of oxygen, and was fairly controlled. It was a small fire around the inductor, so it was going nowhere, although several nearby chips actually popped off the board. See the pictures, if you dare:
Yeah, it was pretty nasty. My room was filled with smoke for a day or so, even with the window open and a fan blowing exhaust out my window.
The second was the ATX connector on a Pentium III motherboard actually heating up to the point of melting both the connector on the board and the connector on the power supply, so all that was left was a mess of molten plastic and some bare pins. Needless to say, both the power supply and motherboard were thrown in my local dumpster.
Anyone have similar experience? Or am I just an unlucky bastard?
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I can't wait until they figure out how to telemarket via Voice-over-IP!
I can see it now...Futurama Season 17 Episode 21 (you know, after Microsoft buys Fox, MicroFox tries to incorporate Futurama into its 'hip' image by bringing it back to life in the year 2018 when two-dimensional cartoons are considered barbaric):
Leela: "Didn't you have telemarketers in the twentieth century?"
Fry: "Well, sure, but not via VoIP. Only on TV and radio...and in magazines...and on the phone, and in movies, and at ballgames, and on MSN Messenger, and on buses, and door-to-door salesmen, and milk cartons, and T-shirts, and bananas, and written in the sky. But not via VoIP, no sirree."
SCO can bite my shiny metal ass.
Fine, I'll make my own POSIX-Compliant O/S! With Blackjack, and Hookers! In fact forget the O/S and the blackjack! Ah, screw the whole thing.
BSD is headed for a disaster of biblical proportions! What next? Human sacrifices, dogs and cats living together? Mass hysteria!
So far I've been unlucky enough to have two systems go ablaze, and they've been fairly dust-free for most of their operating lives -- I tend to dust (and vacuum) them every month or so.
The first was a dual-processor Pentium II board that caught fire around an inductor about a year ago. Thankfully, the case was closed and the little blaze starved itself of oxygen, and was fairly controlled. It was a small fire around the inductor, so it was going nowhere, although several nearby chips actually popped off the board. See the pictures, if you dare:
Burnout 1
Burnout 2
Burnout 3
Yeah, it was pretty nasty. My room was filled with smoke for a day or so, even with the window open and a fan blowing exhaust out my window.
The second was the ATX connector on a Pentium III motherboard actually heating up to the point of melting both the connector on the board and the connector on the power supply, so all that was left was a mess of molten plastic and some bare pins. Needless to say, both the power supply and motherboard were thrown in my local dumpster.
Anyone have similar experience? Or am I just an unlucky bastard?