Crazy computer ideas

(=DaRk=CrAzY-NuTTeR) #1

I’m wondering if anyone here has ever had or maby even done crazy things with their computer. It comes as I saw someones sweet HL2 case. Here is one thing that happend in my house.

In my house all the computer are linked on a home network with a server on it. The server was in the atic with my brothers computer and mine. The server was there but the fan was too loud. So we needed something to shut it up, the answer, crazy as it seems but we put the server on a home-made water cooling system, the thing was that the pump got hot after a while and the server did so the water needed changing all the time, or it would just evaporate and needed new water anyway. Funny thing is it worked :eek: and the CPU was dry, although the computers were soaked by water that overnight cooled down and condensed on the computer.

So what have you guys done?

(Mark.C) #2

who cares !

just your excuse to spam some more.

(RAV3N) #3

i care!

i love random posts that dont really fit in they fill me with a warm feeling inside

(Riftgarde) #4

Crazy computer ideas?

Spend hundreds downgrading your computer.

(Davros) #5

hmm silly computer ideas… there was a fuse in my old pc that died so i used a 2p coin to bridge the gap. no surprise that it didnt work, and the coin left a dent in my wall after it flew out :bash: . dont ask me to fix your pc :drink:

(SwordOfDamocles) #6

My housemate has his pc setup without a case sitting on a couple of old DVD boxes. He is such a ghetto cheap arse that he uses a pen to short out a circuit in order to turn on his computer. I ridicule him daily about his cheapness but he loves it nevertheless.

Saying that, his system seems 10 times more stable than mine which often refuses to even turn on…for which I blame my 9700Pro AIW:

http://www.viperlair.com/reviews/video_graph/ati/aiw/9700pro/fix.shtml

Evil tbh :<

(puubert) #7

Wow, that’s just SO crazy man. I thought I was crazy when I thought leprechauns where eating the circuitry in my computer. I swear man, I can hear them chewing. Listen, can you hear? Can you? CAN YOU. STOP IT GODAMNDAN UIRTYOPSGHPGH

(Riftgarde) #8

Crazy computer ideas, not crazy people ideas. :wink:

(sniser) #9

Sorry, people crazyness is all I have to offer :wink: when RTCW mptest came out, I played the night through… at some point I was going to the bathroom, still having the sound of explosions in my head… as I looked at the water boiler, I saw a little axis sniper looking out of the hole where the flame is… that’s when I decided to go to bed… damn, I just realize… I’m so <3k0r3!!!oneLULZ?

(SCDS_reyalP) #10

Everyone who has worked in the industry knows of Cable Gnomes, those creatures who lurk in the dark corners of racks and HVAC systems, until no one is looking, and then venture forth to create chaos upon ordered cabling. Sure, IT workers like to pretend that such things do not exist, that they are just a hallucination brought on by the strong EM fields found in data centers, or the rantings of caffeine crazed sysadmins. If you ask them in the office, no doubt they will roll their eyes, and either pretend to have no idea what you are talking about, or abuse you for your superstition.

Catch them at the pub after a few :beer:s and the story is different. Indeed, how else can you explain the fact that that a half dozen CAT-5 cables, left neatly bundled and labeled at 5:00pm, will, at 9:00am the next morning, be a tangled mess knots, remnescent of a certain ancient Celtic symbols ?

:moo:

(SwordOfDamocles) #11

are those gnomes of whom u speak the same little fekkers who eat 1 of a pair of socks when u put them into the washing machine?

(puubert) #12

I knew I wasn’t crazy. It’s a worldwide conspiracy.

([!]Icon) #13

Theres alot of stuff you can do with comps. Quakecon shocases alot fo the coolest cases in teh world.



Theres a whole world of case modding out there.

(evilsock) #14

Long, long time ago when I was 19, worked for a medium sized publishing house who at the time were using Apple Mac’s for their operators to input data (the part I worked in handled all the patent applications for the EU). I used to ‘repair’ the Apple Macs - you can’t really ‘reapair’ a Mac as such, even then it was modularised so once you had isolated the card it was a case of swap it out, suck it and see.

Anyway, a common problem with the original Mac Plus was that the built in CRT had a nasty habit of blowing (it was actually the electrical distrubance calused by the lift in our building that was actually the real cause of the problem) and part of my job was to replace the CRT’s (and anything else that went wrong tbh - software / hardware ‘engineer’ = dogsbody).

Once you’ve cracked open the case on a Mac plus, the first thing you should do really is discharge it - there’s a special tool you can use to discharge the CRT before replacing it - you must never forget or you stand to get a belting great shock from the CRT as you start messing with it - guess what? One time I forget and when I stuck my hand around the claw-like gripper that keeps the charge in place on the CRT I got belted with the CRT disharge - 18000 volts? summit like that. Got thrown about four feet against the wall behind me - it hurt, a lot.

That was the same place when one day when I was asked to look at a hardware problem with an OCR scanner. Stripped the casing down to get at the bits of paper stuck inside with the machine still turned on - I had long hair at the time and didn’t realise that as I was leaning over the OCR kit, my hair dangled into the live parts - got a f*cking great shock in front of about twenty girls who worked in the department and had to keep my mouth shut and pretend like nothing had happened…

(BlackDeath) #15

I opened the sidepanel on my case, crazy huh?

(CM..Punk) #16

What the hell, a COFFIN PC? It looks like a coffin for children too…

/me runs away

(eRRoLfLyNN) #17

Blackdeath wrote:
I opened the sidepanel on my case, crazy huh?

M.A.D.

Big looper! :wink:

(=DaRk=CrAzY-NuTTeR) #18

poor evil sock, have you learnt a lesson oh and BTW death, ur frikken annoying me already

the coffin PC is for stashing the objective

(BlackDeath) #19

Good, now you know how it feels :banana:

(=DaRk=CrAzY-NuTTeR) #20

i knew sum1 would say that, i should be one of those peeps that sit there and tell fortune, sorry ive forgotten what they are called and BTW black death, will you get of my back u been a tit lately