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[drquuxum.livejournal.com]

Dear TA,

When someone in your class spills Pepsi on one of the laptops, don't wait until 4:59 PM THE NEXT DAY to tell me about it. That is a legitimate reason to page me.

No love,
Quuxum

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[http://users.livejournal.com/hub_/]

diet pepsi?

[teriwyn.livejournal.com]

Given the history of folks in this forum, I doubt the OP would be so lucky.

[http://users.livejournal.com/hub_/]

could be a change in karma. At least then didn't try to rinse the machine under tap water :-) One can hope.

[jecook]

heathen.

Although I will admit to *trying* to cut down my sugar intake by cutting a 50/50 mix of diet coke and regular coke to try to kill the chemical taste of the diet stuff... (which just did *not* work today...)

[mattcaron.livejournal.com]

I drink tea. HFCS will kill you.

[notthebuddha.livejournal.com]

What would the immediate action for a liquid spill on a laptop be? Flip it over to stop further inundation, then call support? Or would you want to stand it up in some way?

[laptop-mechanic.livejournal.com]

Immediately pull all power. Remove all available access panels and keyboard if you can.

However, given that this was soda, if any of it got into the interior the machine is pretty much toast. That stuff is a bitch for corrosion.

[compwizrd.livejournal.com]

we had someone do that to a lovely Thinkpad T42.

Toasted the USB ports.

It was Diet, too..

Have to pray Lenovo will replace the MB

[mattcaron.livejournal.com]

The T60's have drain holes. :-)

[typhoid.livejournal.com]

Then they quickly turn it on to see if it still works... and if it works, they keep using it.

When it dies the next day, they refuse to believe that it was from the liquid spill.

/head. meet desk.

[adamjaskie.livejournal.com]

IT WAS WORKING YESTERDAY!

[mattcaron.livejournal.com]

My laptop has drain holes in the keyboard.

[tallguy.livejournal.com]

OMG, it's the Pepsi Syndrome!

Quick, somebody call Jimmy Carter!