An odd thing....
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Here's one of those things that can only happen to you when your day starts out bad and gets steadily worse.... X| (True story BTW). Went out and got some McDonalds for lunch. Brought it back to the office. Wanted salt on the fries. Opened package of salt and placed on desktop computer. Had a flash of inspiration - put fries aside and did some coding. Had a floppy disk half in/half out of the floppy drive. Went to go eat fries. Looked for salt, found it. Didn't get a full grip on it, dropped it onto the floppy disk where it promptly distributed a thousand little salt grains onto and INTO the disk drive. Tried to blow it off (bad idea) disk drive is now full of salt and makes odd noises when spinning. Paid no attention to it, put disk in drive anyways. Accessed drive, heard strange noises - disk surface is scratched. :suss: Disk drive has been adversely affected. CEO will NOT be happy - these are brand new IBM machines. Ug. I can't believe I destroyed a perfectly good floppy drive with McDonald's salt. :rolleyes: This has got to be a first. Has anyone else ruined their work computers or am I alone in my (soon to be) suffering??
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Here's one of those things that can only happen to you when your day starts out bad and gets steadily worse.... X| (True story BTW). Went out and got some McDonalds for lunch. Brought it back to the office. Wanted salt on the fries. Opened package of salt and placed on desktop computer. Had a flash of inspiration - put fries aside and did some coding. Had a floppy disk half in/half out of the floppy drive. Went to go eat fries. Looked for salt, found it. Didn't get a full grip on it, dropped it onto the floppy disk where it promptly distributed a thousand little salt grains onto and INTO the disk drive. Tried to blow it off (bad idea) disk drive is now full of salt and makes odd noises when spinning. Paid no attention to it, put disk in drive anyways. Accessed drive, heard strange noises - disk surface is scratched. :suss: Disk drive has been adversely affected. CEO will NOT be happy - these are brand new IBM machines. Ug. I can't believe I destroyed a perfectly good floppy drive with McDonald's salt. :rolleyes: This has got to be a first. Has anyone else ruined their work computers or am I alone in my (soon to be) suffering??
John Theal wrote: Has anyone else ruined their work computers Not yet... well... What do you mean by ruined.. with food????... nope... Destroyed windows by fooling around.. most definitly.. Doing it at the moment. Regards, Brian Dela :-)
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Here's one of those things that can only happen to you when your day starts out bad and gets steadily worse.... X| (True story BTW). Went out and got some McDonalds for lunch. Brought it back to the office. Wanted salt on the fries. Opened package of salt and placed on desktop computer. Had a flash of inspiration - put fries aside and did some coding. Had a floppy disk half in/half out of the floppy drive. Went to go eat fries. Looked for salt, found it. Didn't get a full grip on it, dropped it onto the floppy disk where it promptly distributed a thousand little salt grains onto and INTO the disk drive. Tried to blow it off (bad idea) disk drive is now full of salt and makes odd noises when spinning. Paid no attention to it, put disk in drive anyways. Accessed drive, heard strange noises - disk surface is scratched. :suss: Disk drive has been adversely affected. CEO will NOT be happy - these are brand new IBM machines. Ug. I can't believe I destroyed a perfectly good floppy drive with McDonald's salt. :rolleyes: This has got to be a first. Has anyone else ruined their work computers or am I alone in my (soon to be) suffering??
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Have you ever turned Windows 2000 Pro into a Windows 2000 Server just by a click of a mouse? Brian does this sound familiar? It does to me. :-D :-D :-D Regards, Venet. Donec eris felix, multos numerabis amicos.
Venet wrote: Brian does this sound familiar? Moi... me... never... Never heard of that before :~ Regards, Brian Dela :-)
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Venet wrote: Brian does this sound familiar? Moi... me... never... Never heard of that before :~ Regards, Brian Dela :-)
Hmmm, Do ya remember that small application called 'Switch'? Ah come on now you must do. You should have seen the face of the Sys Admin the next day. OMG that was funny. :laugh::laugh::laugh::laugh: Regards, Venet. Donec eris felix, multos numerabis amicos.
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Here's one of those things that can only happen to you when your day starts out bad and gets steadily worse.... X| (True story BTW). Went out and got some McDonalds for lunch. Brought it back to the office. Wanted salt on the fries. Opened package of salt and placed on desktop computer. Had a flash of inspiration - put fries aside and did some coding. Had a floppy disk half in/half out of the floppy drive. Went to go eat fries. Looked for salt, found it. Didn't get a full grip on it, dropped it onto the floppy disk where it promptly distributed a thousand little salt grains onto and INTO the disk drive. Tried to blow it off (bad idea) disk drive is now full of salt and makes odd noises when spinning. Paid no attention to it, put disk in drive anyways. Accessed drive, heard strange noises - disk surface is scratched. :suss: Disk drive has been adversely affected. CEO will NOT be happy - these are brand new IBM machines. Ug. I can't believe I destroyed a perfectly good floppy drive with McDonald's salt. :rolleyes: This has got to be a first. Has anyone else ruined their work computers or am I alone in my (soon to be) suffering??
John Theal wrote: I destroyed a perfectly good floppy drive with McDonald's salt. So why don't you sue them? ;P
Vikram.
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Here's one of those things that can only happen to you when your day starts out bad and gets steadily worse.... X| (True story BTW). Went out and got some McDonalds for lunch. Brought it back to the office. Wanted salt on the fries. Opened package of salt and placed on desktop computer. Had a flash of inspiration - put fries aside and did some coding. Had a floppy disk half in/half out of the floppy drive. Went to go eat fries. Looked for salt, found it. Didn't get a full grip on it, dropped it onto the floppy disk where it promptly distributed a thousand little salt grains onto and INTO the disk drive. Tried to blow it off (bad idea) disk drive is now full of salt and makes odd noises when spinning. Paid no attention to it, put disk in drive anyways. Accessed drive, heard strange noises - disk surface is scratched. :suss: Disk drive has been adversely affected. CEO will NOT be happy - these are brand new IBM machines. Ug. I can't believe I destroyed a perfectly good floppy drive with McDonald's salt. :rolleyes: This has got to be a first. Has anyone else ruined their work computers or am I alone in my (soon to be) suffering??
While travelling, I broke the modem in my work laptop becuase I dropped it off of a hotel desk onto the floor. :-O I was able to replace it easily, although it tunrs out that PCMCIA slot the modem also broke - fortunately the laptop had two of those. I'm sure I'm not the only person to have damaged a laptop by dropping it, though. :) "When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute and it's longer than any hour. That's relativity." - Albert Einstein
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John Theal wrote: I destroyed a perfectly good floppy drive with McDonald's salt. So why don't you sue them? ;P
Vikram.
My soon-to-be-updated site KI klike KDE kand kuse kit, kbut KI kmust kadmit, kstarting kall knames kwith K kis ksilly. KI khope kthey kwill kgive kup kthis kwhole kscheme ksoon kand kcome kup kwith kreal knames. pI vThink aHungarian nNotation vIs iA aWonderful nThing cAnd pEveryone avShould vUse pIt aAll dThe nTime, adNo nMatter pWhat dThe nContext, adEven adWhen vSpeaking.
:-) Regards, Brian Dela :-)
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While travelling, I broke the modem in my work laptop becuase I dropped it off of a hotel desk onto the floor. :-O I was able to replace it easily, although it tunrs out that PCMCIA slot the modem also broke - fortunately the laptop had two of those. I'm sure I'm not the only person to have damaged a laptop by dropping it, though. :) "When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute and it's longer than any hour. That's relativity." - Albert Einstein
Navin wrote: "When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute and it's longer than any hour. That's relativity." - Albert Einstein Why on the stove. Just sit alone! ;P Regards, Venet. Donec eris felix, multos numerabis amicos.
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Hmmm, Do ya remember that small application called 'Switch'? Ah come on now you must do. You should have seen the face of the Sys Admin the next day. OMG that was funny. :laugh::laugh::laugh::laugh: Regards, Venet. Donec eris felix, multos numerabis amicos.
Venet wrote: Ah come on now you must do. Well.. maybe I remember.. I might have clicked on a few things... but I didn't know.. honest ;) Regards, Brian Dela :-)
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Navin wrote: "When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute and it's longer than any hour. That's relativity." - Albert Einstein Why on the stove. Just sit alone! ;P Regards, Venet. Donec eris felix, multos numerabis amicos.
But how would that explain relativity? ;-P Regards, Brian Dela :-)
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But how would that explain relativity? ;-P Regards, Brian Dela :-)
Brian Delahunty wrote: But how would that explain relativity? Don't you think that sitting alone makes a minute look like an hour? You see humans are social beings, they aren't designed to be alone ;) Regards, Venet. Donec eris felix, multos numerabis amicos.
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Here's one of those things that can only happen to you when your day starts out bad and gets steadily worse.... X| (True story BTW). Went out and got some McDonalds for lunch. Brought it back to the office. Wanted salt on the fries. Opened package of salt and placed on desktop computer. Had a flash of inspiration - put fries aside and did some coding. Had a floppy disk half in/half out of the floppy drive. Went to go eat fries. Looked for salt, found it. Didn't get a full grip on it, dropped it onto the floppy disk where it promptly distributed a thousand little salt grains onto and INTO the disk drive. Tried to blow it off (bad idea) disk drive is now full of salt and makes odd noises when spinning. Paid no attention to it, put disk in drive anyways. Accessed drive, heard strange noises - disk surface is scratched. :suss: Disk drive has been adversely affected. CEO will NOT be happy - these are brand new IBM machines. Ug. I can't believe I destroyed a perfectly good floppy drive with McDonald's salt. :rolleyes: This has got to be a first. Has anyone else ruined their work computers or am I alone in my (soon to be) suffering??
There are many stories. My worst personal case was keeping all of my floppies is a desk drawer and knocking an open can of soda on top of them when I left the drawer open one day. "For as long as I can remember, I have had memories. Colin Mochrie."
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There are many stories. My worst personal case was keeping all of my floppies is a desk drawer and knocking an open can of soda on top of them when I left the drawer open one day. "For as long as I can remember, I have had memories. Colin Mochrie."
I had a cat knock a can of Pepsi into an open server while it was running! :omg:
Paul Watson wrote: "At the end of the day it is what you produce that counts, not how many doctorates you have on the wall." George Carlin wrote: "Don't sweat the petty things, and don't pet the sweaty things." Jörgen Sigvardsson wrote: If the physicists find a universal theory describing the laws of universe, I'm sure the asshole constant will be an integral part of that theory.
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Here's one of those things that can only happen to you when your day starts out bad and gets steadily worse.... X| (True story BTW). Went out and got some McDonalds for lunch. Brought it back to the office. Wanted salt on the fries. Opened package of salt and placed on desktop computer. Had a flash of inspiration - put fries aside and did some coding. Had a floppy disk half in/half out of the floppy drive. Went to go eat fries. Looked for salt, found it. Didn't get a full grip on it, dropped it onto the floppy disk where it promptly distributed a thousand little salt grains onto and INTO the disk drive. Tried to blow it off (bad idea) disk drive is now full of salt and makes odd noises when spinning. Paid no attention to it, put disk in drive anyways. Accessed drive, heard strange noises - disk surface is scratched. :suss: Disk drive has been adversely affected. CEO will NOT be happy - these are brand new IBM machines. Ug. I can't believe I destroyed a perfectly good floppy drive with McDonald's salt. :rolleyes: This has got to be a first. Has anyone else ruined their work computers or am I alone in my (soon to be) suffering??
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Here's one of those things that can only happen to you when your day starts out bad and gets steadily worse.... X| (True story BTW). Went out and got some McDonalds for lunch. Brought it back to the office. Wanted salt on the fries. Opened package of salt and placed on desktop computer. Had a flash of inspiration - put fries aside and did some coding. Had a floppy disk half in/half out of the floppy drive. Went to go eat fries. Looked for salt, found it. Didn't get a full grip on it, dropped it onto the floppy disk where it promptly distributed a thousand little salt grains onto and INTO the disk drive. Tried to blow it off (bad idea) disk drive is now full of salt and makes odd noises when spinning. Paid no attention to it, put disk in drive anyways. Accessed drive, heard strange noises - disk surface is scratched. :suss: Disk drive has been adversely affected. CEO will NOT be happy - these are brand new IBM machines. Ug. I can't believe I destroyed a perfectly good floppy drive with McDonald's salt. :rolleyes: This has got to be a first. Has anyone else ruined their work computers or am I alone in my (soon to be) suffering??
Workers at a local call center got bored one day, and finding a hole in the side of a monitor amused themselves for some time by shoving the remains of a Burger King meal into it. The friend who told me about this added that he'd never felt more like Jane Goodall among the apes...
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Let your mercy spill / On all these burning hearts in hell If it be your will / To make us well...
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John Theal wrote: I destroyed a perfectly good floppy drive with McDonald's salt. So why don't you sue them? ;P
Vikram.
My soon-to-be-updated site KI klike KDE kand kuse kit, kbut KI kmust kadmit, kstarting kall knames kwith K kis ksilly. KI khope kthey kwill kgive kup kthis kwhole kscheme ksoon kand kcome kup kwith kreal knames. pI vThink aHungarian nNotation vIs iA aWonderful nThing cAnd pEveryone avShould vUse pIt aAll dThe nTime, adNo nMatter pWhat dThe nContext, adEven adWhen vSpeaking.
"The salt bag did not disclaim the usage of this product in disk drives, therefore McDonalds owes me money!" -- Gnnnnmmmpppppppfffffhhh!
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Here's one of those things that can only happen to you when your day starts out bad and gets steadily worse.... X| (True story BTW). Went out and got some McDonalds for lunch. Brought it back to the office. Wanted salt on the fries. Opened package of salt and placed on desktop computer. Had a flash of inspiration - put fries aside and did some coding. Had a floppy disk half in/half out of the floppy drive. Went to go eat fries. Looked for salt, found it. Didn't get a full grip on it, dropped it onto the floppy disk where it promptly distributed a thousand little salt grains onto and INTO the disk drive. Tried to blow it off (bad idea) disk drive is now full of salt and makes odd noises when spinning. Paid no attention to it, put disk in drive anyways. Accessed drive, heard strange noises - disk surface is scratched. :suss: Disk drive has been adversely affected. CEO will NOT be happy - these are brand new IBM machines. Ug. I can't believe I destroyed a perfectly good floppy drive with McDonald's salt. :rolleyes: This has got to be a first. Has anyone else ruined their work computers or am I alone in my (soon to be) suffering??
One of my old sysadmins had a bright idea after one of the removable drives (an old DEC RM05) had a head crash and trashed a set of platters. She inserted another set of platters to see if that one would work. It didn't. Ever again. Tim Smith I'm going to patent thought. I have yet to see any prior art.
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One of my old sysadmins had a bright idea after one of the removable drives (an old DEC RM05) had a head crash and trashed a set of platters. She inserted another set of platters to see if that one would work. It didn't. Ever again. Tim Smith I'm going to patent thought. I have yet to see any prior art.
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Here's one of those things that can only happen to you when your day starts out bad and gets steadily worse.... X| (True story BTW). Went out and got some McDonalds for lunch. Brought it back to the office. Wanted salt on the fries. Opened package of salt and placed on desktop computer. Had a flash of inspiration - put fries aside and did some coding. Had a floppy disk half in/half out of the floppy drive. Went to go eat fries. Looked for salt, found it. Didn't get a full grip on it, dropped it onto the floppy disk where it promptly distributed a thousand little salt grains onto and INTO the disk drive. Tried to blow it off (bad idea) disk drive is now full of salt and makes odd noises when spinning. Paid no attention to it, put disk in drive anyways. Accessed drive, heard strange noises - disk surface is scratched. :suss: Disk drive has been adversely affected. CEO will NOT be happy - these are brand new IBM machines. Ug. I can't believe I destroyed a perfectly good floppy drive with McDonald's salt. :rolleyes: This has got to be a first. Has anyone else ruined their work computers or am I alone in my (soon to be) suffering??
The owner of our company put an audio CD in his CDROM drive..but not all the way into the tray...when he closed the drawer, it shattered into several hundred pieces...both outside and inside the drive. We found large and very tiny CD pieces all over the office as well as inside the CD drive...needless to say, he asked us to try and fix the drive rather than get a replacement...ended up getting a replacement...:eek: Steve