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Jun. 15th, 2005
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swwinchester.livejournal.comLet's do some quick background info here - I am a great fan of anime, and have a LARGE volume of Fansubbed anime on my systems here. I will frequently toss friends an ep here, and ep there that they need, it's cool, after all, they toss me good stuff too.
And then I get this lovely request from a friend of mine ... who, incidentally, has never contributed ANYTHING (worthwhile) to my fansub pool ...
"Can you transfer me a few eps of fansub?"
"Sure, what did you need?"
"The first 34 episodes of _____."
"That's ... 5.7 gigabytes of data."
"Oh, we're both on cablemodem, that should go fairly fast. Maybe an hour or two, tops?"
... right. I'm one of 6 computers sharing a DSL line. I'm NOT going to do that to my fellow users here in the house. She KNOWS that.
*shakes head* And it was impossible to explain to her why what she was asking for was impossible, especially when it takes me an hour or three to send a SINGLE damn ep of fansub somewhere ... -_-
I mean, hell, it would be FASTER for her to drive the two hours over here, snag the eps off of my network directly, do some shopping in the local malls, have dinner, and go back HOME than to have me throw this stuff to her. Of course, that's 'not workable'.
My AMV Archive for a Cluebat right about now ........
And then I get this lovely request from a friend of mine ... who, incidentally, has never contributed ANYTHING (worthwhile) to my fansub pool ...
"Can you transfer me a few eps of fansub?"
"Sure, what did you need?"
"The first 34 episodes of _____."
"That's ... 5.7 gigabytes of data."
"Oh, we're both on cablemodem, that should go fairly fast. Maybe an hour or two, tops?"
... right. I'm one of 6 computers sharing a DSL line. I'm NOT going to do that to my fellow users here in the house. She KNOWS that.
*shakes head* And it was impossible to explain to her why what she was asking for was impossible, especially when it takes me an hour or three to send a SINGLE damn ep of fansub somewhere ... -_-
I mean, hell, it would be FASTER for her to drive the two hours over here, snag the eps off of my network directly, do some shopping in the local malls, have dinner, and go back HOME than to have me throw this stuff to her. Of course, that's 'not workable'.
My AMV Archive for a Cluebat right about now ........
One side of the story.
Jun. 15th, 2005 09:59 amreynardo.livejournal.com"So your machine seems to be connecting ok, but you can't get a web page? Try disabling your firewall. Got a page now? So what does that tell you? NO, it *doesn't* mean that we're blocking your signa ... no, sir, we don't control your fire... no, sir I won't send a technician to calibrate your third-party softw... no, I WON'T transfer you to a "REAL" tech supp... have a nice day sir."
The User Strikes Back
Jun. 15th, 2005 11:13 ammicrochip.livejournal.comA friend of mine built his new computer yesterday. Athlon64 system. He's not the most technical of people, but I thought "heh, it's only building a computer, and he's got someone fairly technical next door. He shouldn't have much in the way of problems". Hmmm!
All was going well and good, but for the fact it was turning itself off, generally within around 10 minutes. He rang me up several times, I gave him basic diagnostics, he got nowhere. I went over to check it out. Tested the power supply in another PC, worked fine. Concluded it was something to do with the motherboard, either software or hardware wise. Had a thought, and asked him "Did you take the plastic off the bottom, peeling off from the heatsink paste?" "Er, dunno" came the reply.
Hopped into the BIOS, and checked the temperature. Watched it tick up. 32. 34. 36. Right up to around 68 when it cut out. Decided the processor obviously wasn't getting cooled, so I unclipped the CPU heatsink and fan. Lifted it up, and sure enough, the heatsink paste was all intact. Underneath the huge plastic cover, which covered the whole of the bottom of the heatsink. Which was beginning to melt. Somehow, he'd had managed to leave the original plastic cover on the bottom of the fan/heatsink underneath the heatsink itself, locking it in between the heatsink and processor. So the CPU was in direct contact with... plastic. Which had begun to get deformed and start to melt. Oops. This wouldn't have been anywhere near as bad, if it hadn't been blatantly obvious, at least 1cm deep on the bottom of the heatsink, and the fact the silicon heatsink paste was underneath it, very well protected from any actual heat.
Suffice to say that it cheered me up no end that evening, and everyone who heard pointed and laughed. Including me. Repeatedly.
Funnily enough, after removal of the plastic, it ran at a nice cool 25oC. Shiny.
(X-Posted.)
All was going well and good, but for the fact it was turning itself off, generally within around 10 minutes. He rang me up several times, I gave him basic diagnostics, he got nowhere. I went over to check it out. Tested the power supply in another PC, worked fine. Concluded it was something to do with the motherboard, either software or hardware wise. Had a thought, and asked him "Did you take the plastic off the bottom, peeling off from the heatsink paste?" "Er, dunno" came the reply.
Hopped into the BIOS, and checked the temperature. Watched it tick up. 32. 34. 36. Right up to around 68 when it cut out. Decided the processor obviously wasn't getting cooled, so I unclipped the CPU heatsink and fan. Lifted it up, and sure enough, the heatsink paste was all intact. Underneath the huge plastic cover, which covered the whole of the bottom of the heatsink. Which was beginning to melt. Somehow, he'd had managed to leave the original plastic cover on the bottom of the fan/heatsink underneath the heatsink itself, locking it in between the heatsink and processor. So the CPU was in direct contact with... plastic. Which had begun to get deformed and start to melt. Oops. This wouldn't have been anywhere near as bad, if it hadn't been blatantly obvious, at least 1cm deep on the bottom of the heatsink, and the fact the silicon heatsink paste was underneath it, very well protected from any actual heat.
Suffice to say that it cheered me up no end that evening, and everyone who heard pointed and laughed. Including me. Repeatedly.
Funnily enough, after removal of the plastic, it ran at a nice cool 25oC. Shiny.
(X-Posted.)
xdownfornowx.livejournal.comThe next user that veiws an attachment in Outlook, makes changes, then saves it to the same attached file with out saving to a separate location, and then cries to me wanting me to pull their changes out of the temp files libmo of Outlook is going to get dick whipped in the eye!
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Jun. 15th, 2005 07:48 pmmsgoose.livejournal.comI work tech support for an ISP yesterday I got this
"It wants me to select a country should I put in Florida?"
I immediately hit the mute and began laughing and banging my head on the desk. I have heard Texas is like a whole other country but never Florida...
"It wants me to select a country should I put in Florida?"
I immediately hit the mute and began laughing and banging my head on the desk. I have heard Texas is like a whole other country but never Florida...
Paging Dr. Feud...
Jun. 15th, 2005 10:39 pmelobscuro.livejournal.comSo over the last two days, my dirty little mind has made the inevitable connection....
Between a "problem" line declaring to the world that the "fan blows load"...
And a co-working complaing of "erotic mouse movements". Enough so to speculate on cuasation... any one else got some Fun With Typos?
Between a "problem" line declaring to the world that the "fan blows load"...
And a co-working complaing of "erotic mouse movements". Enough so to speculate on cuasation... any one else got some Fun With Typos?
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Jun. 15th, 2005 10:49 pmbassgirl.livejournal.comQuote of the Day
her ="so that website is blahblah@dotcom?"
me = "no, blahblah.com"
her = "so blahblahdot@com"
me = "no. www PERIOD blahblah PERIOD com. There is no @ in website addresses."
her = "There isnt'????????????? Ever? Really??"
Alas, it was my MOM i was talking to on the phone between customers. Gak.
her ="so that website is blahblah@dotcom?"
me = "no, blahblah.com"
her = "so blahblahdot@com"
me = "no. www PERIOD blahblah PERIOD com. There is no @ in website addresses."
her = "There isnt'????????????? Ever? Really??"
Alas, it was my MOM i was talking to on the phone between customers. Gak.
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