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techrecoveryDear Knobjockey Prometheus II,
I built you from scratch. I gave you tender loving care when you were relegated to the stuffy cardboard prisons in which you were incarcerated as newborns. I'm still paying you off, and will be for a long time. I took you, piece by piece, broke you out of gaol, cleaned and assembled you, making sure to Read The Fucking Manual even though i've been building your like for many years, triple checked all your sockets and connections, installed a brand new brain into you and gave you the life you dreamed of.
I set you up with the care and attention of an interior decorator with serious gender identity issues, matching your desktop shades and shapes and tweaking your UI until it was beautiful to behold. I sheathed your cables in blue UV and the ends in red, so that you may be striking and appealing to the eye.
I regularly kept your BIOSes updated and checked, secured you from the tribulations of an eWorld that doesn't eCare and spent time with you day and night caressing your buttons and switches like they were my own, basking in your cathode glare until I developed a lovely geektan™ and eyes that oscillated at the same frequency as your VSync.
When you got sick, rare as it was, beautiful Prometheus, I cared for you and spent hours tending to you until you were better. For 6 months, we were an inseparable item...
And this is how you repay me?
One spike of dirty power and you die completely. no warning, no apologies, nothing. you just walk out that door. your lack of consideration for my feelings leaves me cold and disappointed that our relationship meant that little to you. And when i finally find what I believe to be the problem - because *I* DIDN'T ABANDON YOU! even after you left me, i stayed by your darkened husk and searched and prodded and built and rebuilt til I found something wrong - For you to take the brand new part I voided a warranty for and spit it back at me in a fit of rigor-mortis inspired pique just takes the cake.
Well fuck you AND your crappy fuse. I'm taking your heart out and you can wait until I can afford a new one. powerspike that you ungrateful bitch.
Insincerely,
Me.
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I built you from scratch. I gave you tender loving care when you were relegated to the stuffy cardboard prisons in which you were incarcerated as newborns. I'm still paying you off, and will be for a long time. I took you, piece by piece, broke you out of gaol, cleaned and assembled you, making sure to Read The Fucking Manual even though i've been building your like for many years, triple checked all your sockets and connections, installed a brand new brain into you and gave you the life you dreamed of.
I set you up with the care and attention of an interior decorator with serious gender identity issues, matching your desktop shades and shapes and tweaking your UI until it was beautiful to behold. I sheathed your cables in blue UV and the ends in red, so that you may be striking and appealing to the eye.
I regularly kept your BIOSes updated and checked, secured you from the tribulations of an eWorld that doesn't eCare and spent time with you day and night caressing your buttons and switches like they were my own, basking in your cathode glare until I developed a lovely geektan™ and eyes that oscillated at the same frequency as your VSync.
When you got sick, rare as it was, beautiful Prometheus, I cared for you and spent hours tending to you until you were better. For 6 months, we were an inseparable item...
And this is how you repay me?
One spike of dirty power and you die completely. no warning, no apologies, nothing. you just walk out that door. your lack of consideration for my feelings leaves me cold and disappointed that our relationship meant that little to you. And when i finally find what I believe to be the problem - because *I* DIDN'T ABANDON YOU! even after you left me, i stayed by your darkened husk and searched and prodded and built and rebuilt til I found something wrong - For you to take the brand new part I voided a warranty for and spit it back at me in a fit of rigor-mortis inspired pique just takes the cake.
Well fuck you AND your crappy fuse. I'm taking your heart out and you can wait until I can afford a new one. powerspike that you ungrateful bitch.
Insincerely,
Me.
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Date: 2006-01-19 12:13 am (UTC)piece of crap.
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Date: 2006-01-19 12:31 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-01-19 06:17 pm (UTC)When I first got a system that I could monitor the various voltages, I discovered the reason why all my previous systems would act flaky for no good reason.
Undervoltage can be just as damaging....
Now that I have a UPS on my stuff, once I get over the initial surprise of it kicking in, it's quite reassuring :) Getting one that can suppress overvoltages and correct undervoltages is practically a requirement these days.