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  • From: Thomas Graham <lkthomashk AT yahoo.com.hk>
  • To: nealbirch <nealbirch AT attbi.com>
  • Cc: sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] totally off topic... but funny
  • Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2002 23:56:36 +0800 (CST)

cigars? I want it, actually, I never try one before,
wahahaha
CAT ? does your dog chewed your optical fiber cable ?
or the animal chewed the power cable and burn
themseleves, LOL...

--- nealbirch <nealbirch AT attbi.com> wrote: > Well,
it's a week unemployed today... So I am doing
> some minor free
> lance consulting type stuff.
>
> Yesterday I did some in home repair for a guy a
> know, he wanted to get
> on the web with his old compaq (300 mhz, win98)
> machine. I quoted a
> price, (I have a reasonable hourly fee, you want to
> be able to get out
> of there sometime. And if he's got the money to
> burn, I got the time to
> waste answering inane questions =) and we took a
> look.
>
> Kenny has no idea about ergonomics, so we discussed
> how using a kitchen
> table as a computer desk is gonna kill him, even if
> he is a one finger
> typer who can't double click. It's only $40 for
> cheap computer desk at
> Office Depot, for christ sakes... anyway. Did I
> mention he has cats? I'm
> allergic to cats.. at least he kept them outside.
>
> His pc, at least 4 years old, is in the original
> pristine compaq install
> condition, with every piece of crap software they
> install on it still
> running. loverly.
>
> His modem won't dial. this is because it's not being
> detected anymore.
> It used to be detected, because it's setup, but when
> I remove it, it
> doesn't find it again. bummer. com2 completely gone.
> I decide that I
> will show him what a modem looks like, so we
> disconnect the thing and I
> haul it off to his kitchen where he has a tall
> center island perfect for
> working on the thing.
>
> I quickly see that someone has been there before me,
> because they have
> broken the fricken power button attachment by trying
> to take the front
> of the case off without disconnecting the cord,
> which on these models is
> firmly plugged into the motherboard... if you try to
> pull the front
> bezel off it breaks the mounting bracket for the
> power switch rather
> than unplugging the cord. Nice design. He said that
> a friend of his had
> done that, and I explain the joys of non-conductive
> epoxy for case
> repair, he says he doesn't use it, there is a power
> switch on the back
> he uses instead when he shuts down.(ok, he gets
> points for actually
> shutting down properly, which makes up for never in
> 4 years doing a scan
> disk or defrag.) I told him to put some duct tape
> over the front so
> someone else doesn't hit the switch and jam it
> again.
>
> Unfortunately, the case won't come apart because his
> cat has at sometime
> in the past sprayed the thing. ("It's mine! Mine, I
> tell you!" I had a
> dog like that.) After a few moments of reflection, I
> say: "Normally, we
> don't use hammers on computers, but do you have one
> handy?" With a
> couple of judicious blows using a screwdriver as a
> chisel, I pried the
> thing apart and took a little sandpaper and 3in1 oil
> to the rusted parts.
>
> I figured that maybe the cat had pissed on the modem
> too, but no, no
> evidence of corrosion there, swapped it to the other
> pci slot (rockwell
> hcf modem, early model, software upgradeable) and
> figured what the hell,
> it might work, so I washed my hands and we tried it.
> Joy! It works! Oh,
> by the way, the cat chewed the phone cord, too. go
> figure.
>
> Oh yeah, he wanted to use AOL. I figured he was
> paying. Latest version
> didn't display well, but an earlier version did.
> Told him to call and
> cancel in 45 days, he should get at least another
> free month, then he
> can get the AARP discount... AOL is good for people
> like him. It's all
> in one place, and he'll have to upgrade his computer
> to run the latest
> version so he'll stimulate the economy.
>
> I had to explain that computers aren't like cars.
> With cars, they don't
> increase the minimum speed limit from 40 mph to 250
> mph... And it
> doesn't hurt to clean the keyboard every now and
> then.
>
> And keep the cat away from the computer...
>
> Oh yeah, I got $50 and a couple of good cigars for
> about 3 hrs work. I
> work cheap.
>
> The story above is true. I didn't change the names
> because he'll never
> see this.
> --
> "You can fool some of the people all of the time
> --and those are the ones you have to concentrate
> on!"
> GW Bush-- from the N.Y. Times
>
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