Application of the "why did you even ask me" tax...

[Nohbody]

If you're putting THAT much effort in to your porn, you may have a problem.

Depends on if you're getting paid for it or not. I know of some (if only by name) who make a pretty penny drawing... well, pretty Pennys, among other things, in varying degrees of undress.

[Ironclad Alibi]

If you're putting THAT much effort in to your porn, you may have a problem.

True, there are those repetitive motion injuries from ... using the mouse.

[protege]

True, there are those repetitive motion injuries from ... using the mouse.

Damn, that double-clicking is a bitch...



Seriously though, we had some equipment at work, that should have been shot at birth. For example, the DEC (remember those?) terminal. That thing was a POS--the motherboard, was a foot square, and consisted of two halves that plugged into each other. Any other cards, were held on a vertical riser-type thing. Why? Needless to say, it didn't last long--we managed to overheat it, and I scrapped it.

Another favorite, was the laptop that I was forced to cobble together. This thing had issues--failing keyboard, damaged screen, etc. But, I wasn't allowed to trash it. Boss insisted that because it "still worked," it was still "good" My work-around consisted of attaching a CRT-style monitor, and regular keyboard and mouse. Since my "repair" contradicted the "portable" nature of the thing, it was banished to the conference room, and used to run the fax machine. That didn't last long either--it "failed" when the office moved awhile back

The last one, had to be the old server. Not sure why, but it would overheat with the case's side panels in place. Boss wouldn't spring for extra fans, so instead I had to remove all the panels from the case. Server worked, but again, it wasn't pretty. Eventually, it got so covered in dust, that it suffocated

In all 3 of those cases, had enough money been spent, they would have worked fine. But, the boss chose to be cheap, and instead...spent multiple times what the repairs would have cost.

[EricKei]

Hmmm... are you suggesting that maybe...just maybe...you might have, er, "forcibly retired" some of those comps? Hmmmmmmm?

Not that I haven't done the same (especially on systems showing a build date from last century) >_>

[Dreamstalker]

I swear one of the GameStore computers was scared of me; there were a few times when seemingly only my presence kept the thing online.

[EricKei]

I just HAD to speak up about dead computers >_>

Last week, one of our older comp's hard drives (from a Dell Dimension 1100) went south. Even my recovery programs and UBCD 4 Win could not access the drive.

Yesterday, the comp I was trying to use to fill in/set up for that user -- another 1100 - gave me a 4-2-1 Beep Code. According to Dell's site, this means that the mobo is toast. I took it home to try and put some gris-gris on it this weekend. We are rapidly running out of shitty old computers to use for spare parts!

On the upside, two of the working comps got RAM upgrades as a result.

[protege]

We are rapidly running out of shitty old computers to use for spare parts!

I only have one "scrap" computer at work now. I once had several to rob parts from. But, the boss insisted I get rid of them all. So that lot, along with a large box of keyboards, mice, drives, and other assorted parts, soon came to my garage. Some of it...I was even able to sell *back* to my boss

But, several years on, I got tired of having all that crap, and scrapped it. The RAM and drives went into more deserving causes, and I recycled the rest. You can see the results of one such scrapping in the Computer Carnage! thread