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There was a time when all good programmers had a screwdriver in their desk. The REALLY good ones had a tool kit! You never knew when you going to need to build a cable or wirewrap a circuit board  .
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I'm so glad to find out that someone else had heard of wirewrap! I was at Fry's Electronics and asked if they had wirewrap tools and supplies. I felt momentary joy when he said, "Sure, right over here." A few aisles later my heart sank as he showed me their supplies of cable ties, tubing, stick-on fasteners, and other stuff to neatly bundle cables together. I was wondering where the tools were that I was looking for, until it finally dawned on me what "wirewrap" meant to him!
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My laptop has a sticker which says-"No user serviceable parts inside do not attempt repairs."
Those people who recognize that the imagination is reality’s master we call sages, and those who act upon it we call artists or lunatics. — Tom Robbins
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2 years ago, i have bought a new high end computer with 4x 2,8 Ghz.
When i got my computer, the processor was only a 2x 2,0 Ghz. So i contact the seller for this mistake and he want to correct this problem and give me the right processor.
He has asked, if i can replace the processor by myself or i have to send the new computer to the seller and get it back with the right processor. I have answered with the question, if the warranty get lost in the case i replace a processor by myself.
He said: "No, but if you install a bios update, the warranty get lost.", so i have decided to replace the processor by myself. Now after 2 days, the right processor has arrived, i replaced the processor and find out, that the motherboard "needs" a bios update to be compatible with the right processor...
So i had to replace the 2,8 Ghz processor back to the compatible 2,0 Ghz processor, install the bios update and insert the 2,8 Ghz processor with the hope of working at least.
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Not in the last decade, if the bloody thing breaks then I will growl at a tech to fix it. If it is mine then I'll pay to get it fixed or use the excude to buy a new one. Thankfully I am at last affluent enough that I can afford to pay some other poorer bugger to do the hardware bits.
OTOH my son has inherited some rahter nice bits of hardware!
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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... it doesn't matter.
Incidentally, my son broke the screen on his laptop.
1 year and 2 days after it was purchased!
That has cost £70 for a new screen and 3 hours of my life to install it!
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I will never again mention that I was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel. Dalek Dave
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so in relative terms quite expensive then...
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sunaSaRa Imdadhusen
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And you enjoyed every minute of those 3 hours, right?
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Well, truth be told, yes! 
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I will never again mention that I was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel. Dalek Dave
CCC League Table Link
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