oh for christs sake...(x-posted to my personal LJ)

[twitchfetish.livejournal.com]

Dear Brainless Infinitard,

for you who were somehow given permission to survive the attempted abortion and live to your current age, purchase a computer with the money you made from donating parts of your addled brain to science, and then subsequently fail to use it in any semblance of the way intended:

if you switch the little red switch on the back of your power supply from "220" to "110", you have just guaranteed a nice little light show and some smoke that will probably make you high. it won't have any other effect on you because your brain is too fucked up to be damaged by burning silicon and plastic.

when you start seeing the smoke, do not decide that it looks pretty and watch it for hours. TURN YOUR FUCKING COMPUTER OFF. unplug it from the wall. good monkey.

now, when you call us and tell us that "someone" switched your power supply to 110V in a country that uses 240, don't expect us to be 1. sympathetic or 2. likely to cover you under warranty.

yes the black marks near the power cord mean you will need to buy a new PSU for your machine.

what really makes us giggle though is the fact that through your utter inability to comprehend the basic tenets of survival you have probably fried multiple components of your system, and you will be up for a fair bit of money getting it working again.

no. we're not going ot repair it for you. our warranty does not cover Acts of God. your continued survival is obviously an Act of God. in one of his vengeance moods. to punish me for something i've done. like failing to travel back in time and educate your parents on the wonderous possibilities inherent in the consumption of copious amounts of Thalidomide and various other wonderful drugs during pregnancy. at least then they'd have an excuse for your obvious mental deficiencies.

moron.

IV

Comments

[teraflops.livejournal.com]

Ouch, that's the first time I think I've ever seen someone wish flipper-babiness on a customer.
Nicely done :-D

[swwinchester.livejournal.com]

Mmm. That is defiantely a rarity. I generally prefer to wish nonexistance unto people, as that means I have to pay less to support thier continued existance. ^_^

Otherwise, hello, fellow NJ Geek / Anime fan. ^_^

[teraflops.livejournal.com]

Haha, hiya! North Jersey or South Jersey? ;-)

[swwinchester.livejournal.com]

Central. Sitting just south of Princeton, freshly unemployed by the Geek Squad. Pleasure to know there's at least one other NJ geek out there watching this. ^_^

[teraflops.livejournal.com]

This? It's high theater.
If I wasn't NDA'd out the wazoo, I'd be sharing my own tales, too. It seems like I work in an insane asylum, half the time.

[swwinchester.livejournal.com]

Ahhhhhhh. NDA's are fun stuff. Let me guess, government work? Know how that is, can empathize quite well.

And as a quiet reminder, you live in NJ. This state IS an Insane Asylum. So working in one only half the time means you're in good shape.

[teraflops.livejournal.com]

Nope, I work abuse for a major broadband ISP based out of southern NJ(you can probably guess which, from that), I'm just *really* encouraged not to talk about it. And, since they're paying for my tuition and they get to ask for all that money back if I get fired, as well as sue me under the NDA, and blackball me with every other major ISP, I can't really get into specifics about what we do, ever.

[swwinchester.livejournal.com]

Ahh, I see, I see.

:: smirks :: They wouldn't happen to be hiring, now would they? ^_^;;;;

[teraflops.livejournal.com]

Actually... yes, but you'd hate it ;-)

[swwinchester.livejournal.com]

:: shrugs :: Work is work. It can't be THAT much worse than working for Best Buy for 2.5 years as a technician.

Well, it probably could be worse, but on the upside, they're apt to pay me a living wage.

Or at least enough that I can keep myself happily immersed in my vices.

[teraflops.livejournal.com]

I've also got to disagree about NJ being insane. I grew up here, and it seems Perfectly Normal(tm), to me :-P

[swwinchester.livejournal.com]

... I grew up here as well. Born in Cherry Hill, to be specific, and I've spent 25 years wondering what was wrong with this place.

Then I realized exactly what was wrong. Everyone was crazier than 'normal'.

And this is coming from someone who is admittedly a little bit nuts.

[teraflops.livejournal.com]

You've gotta be f*cking kidding me. East side or west side?

[swwinchester.livejournal.com]

No bloody clue. I just know that's what it says on my birth certificate - I've lived up where I am now for all but the first 8 months or so of my life.

I won't go into more detail unless you contact me outside of a public forum. Me past be messed up something astounding. ^_^

[teraflops.livejournal.com]

Ah, okay. I grew up in CH, and the possibility, however brief, that you were in my HS class was rather terrifying. And I agree, enough details in public. Nice to meetcha. :-)

[swwinchester.livejournal.com]

Indeed. A pleasure it is. Feel free to tap me on AIM - I'm fairly sure I listed that in my profile. If not, tap me again here, I'll advise you. ^_^;;

[teraflops.livejournal.com]

*tap*

[swwinchester.livejournal.com]

A response was made, but an away message was received.

One or two of us...

[yduras.livejournal.com]

Although I think I qualify as North Jersey (Union County).

Re: One or two of us...

[swwinchester.livejournal.com]

You're up there in the north jersey area, yeah.

[swwinchester.livejournal.com]

Ahhhh, the PSU gave up and let out all the magic smoke that makes it work. I've seen it myself. And yes, we used to write that into service tags - 'Magic Smoke Escaped - Unit Non-Functional'. We once got one back from service that said 'Found fault, reloaded magic smoke.' Good times, that.

If you want real fun, try a detonated PSU. That's right. Detonated.

This one was not the customer's fault, oddly ... his PSU was assembled incorrectly, with EVERY Capacitor wired backwards.

We all know what effect that has when first tested. You have a few moments before things go 'boom'. How it got past QC, we'll never know. We just know that it blew out badly when it got to us.

[110billion.livejournal.com]

inelligent: intelligent minus the t
see also: this customer

[torkell]

A PSU that a friend got when he was putting his computer together cam set to 110v (this is the UK, home of 230v electricity). Plugged it all in without realising, flicked the switch and nothing happened. Which was good, as the only thing that could have happened would be the magic smoke escaping from the PSU and most of the system as well. Turned out that something internal had tripped, as it worked fine when it was set to 220/240.

[geekgrrl-ca.livejournal.com]

I've always wanted to flip the switch on a power supply and watch the effects.

[swwinchester.livejournal.com]

It's fun for the whole family!

Seriously, get an old 200W PS out of a junker, throw the switch, and sit back and watch the fireworks.

[geekgrrl-ca.livejournal.com]

I'm told that here it won't do anything cause our lines are 110 and it just kinda sits there and looks dumb when you flip it to 220

[swwinchester.livejournal.com]

This is why you plug it into a nice variable AC power supply unit that is set to 440 volts.