🚀 go-pugleaf

On Fri, 20 Jan 2017 09:01:16 +0000, Toby Newman <goo...@asktoby.com>
wrote:

>On 2017-01-19, Mr Rob <noemail...@jsjsaiiowppw.com> wrote:
>> On Thu, 19 Jan 2017 09:04:58 -0500, Spalls Hurgenson 
>>>
>>>Oh, if THAT'S the sort of stories you want... Did I ever tell you
>>>about the time I /snapped/ my motherboard trying to attach a heat-sink
>>>fan? Or how I learned about the Dangers of Static Electricity in, "Oh
>>>No, Now I Need a New Video Card!". And then there's the
>>>real-oldie-but-still-goodie "Wait, 3.5" Disks aren't Hard Disks?" ;-)
>>
>> I've snapped a motherboard before as well. I had 3 corners attached to
>> mountings inside a case, the fourth mounting was missing. It was a
>> huge tower with a Pentium II "slocket" on an LX  chipset which was
>> really heavy. I could see through the butchered case that the corner
>> nearest the heavy CPU was bending away from the case when I stood it
>> on its end. But I thought it would be OK. Which it was for a few days
>> at least.
>>
>> Then it broke one night when I was sleeping. The PC didn't work
>> anymore after that for some reason.
>
>I was once working on my PC with the side off, the PC was on. I think
>I was investigating fan noise. At the same time I was eating cherry
>tomatoes and one exploded as I bit it. Somehow I was covered in tomato
>juice but the PC survived.

I went for years with a side off my PC boxes.  Easier that way.  I
never cared about how it looked.  My biggest problem has always been
to find all the fucking connections of wires from MB to stuff, so all
the blinken lights and noises were heard, properly, and could be
switched on and off by the bloody buttons.  I've had PCs running that
I knew for a fact didn't have all the proper connections plugged in
right - but basically I'm lazy and if the damn thing runs I have
enough trouble trying to read the help manuals for software I want to
use, and I figure if this infernal machine was supposed to save labor
cost it's doing a damn poor job.

My current machine was fairly easy.  I guess half of that is because
of experience and the other half is better technology.  The CPU cooler
is massive, but the fan isn't much and is totally silent.  Some of the
instructions were totally opaque, but youtube demos of "how to install
a  brand-X heat sink" etc were excellent.  There doesn't seem to be
anything that I can't find on youtube... "how to install an electrical
sub panel" kind of stuff, takes you right through it.  The box
advertises as "silent" but it's already silent so wtf?  I can't hear
the 1060 - in fact I can 't hear the PC at all.

I'm amazed by and I'm made totally ecstatically happy by 2016 computer
technology -  hardware and software and interactive.