Fark, Bother, Damn, Shite!

[Scorpygirl]

Heres my little rant for the day, and Im also looking for some advice.

On Wednesday after a particularly long and painful day I got home hoping for Ms Sniper to have a beer and dinner ready for me. Also, now that she is studying massage (get away you vultures) I was hoping for some practise on me to relax my muscles and maybe.......

Anywhoo, the first words I hear through the door are "Don't stand on the f&*%en laptop. Ok I think, reasonable request, but why is the laptop on the floor and not on the desk where it should reside? "What happened dear?" I ask out of pure curiousity. "Well I had a little accident" says she. Ok, so a little accident can't be so bad, what happened? "Well I had the laptop on the coffee table, and I don't know how (WTF???) but I managed to spill a whole glass of Lift onto it". Oh fuck thinks me, this is bad.

Anyway, that bastard is rooted, I managed to get the hard drive out and verify that it wasn't damaged, but there is no way myself or Ms Sniper can get the laptop to turn on yet. Is there any special trick or is this a job for Mr, Insurance?

Bugger big-time mate. By the way how's your knee? Does bad luck come in threes

Rhino tipped wine over our laptop. Thankfully only managed to bugger the keyboard and so that was quickly fixed.

[limbimtimwim]

Not many people have as AS400 on the kitchen table. Though I did have an RS6000 in the lounge until recently

I have a SparcServer 20 in my wardrobe (Just one cpu and a whoppping 128mb of ram) 'Tis my mailserver / webserver / clothes dryer.

Fully condone the old hardware doing triple duty :-)

Bit of a fire risk though..

[Macktheknife]

Nothing whatso ever

Just wrap a little black ribbon around it and send it off to the computer graveyard. Then recover your harddrive and call your insurance man cause that thing is well F#cked

[Eddieb]

I have a SparcServer 20 in my wardrobe (Just one cpu and a whoppping 128mb of ram) 'Tis my mailserver / webserver / clothes dryer.

Fully condone the old hardware doing triple duty :-)

Bit of a fire risk though..

hmm, we should talk about the HP LP1000R leaning against my bookcase waiting for a use.

[pyrocam]

Mr insurance says CLAIM and get a nice laptop.

i made heaps of laptop water damage claims. you will most likely get a better one (remember by spec not by cost)

hopefully with AA cos $100 xs and no NCB decrease for claiming on contents

[Sniper]

Thanks for the advice guys. I have it in at a repair shop now for a quote so I can make my decision based on what they tell me.

[Lucyloo]

i dont have a bathtub right now.. but i do have a slow draining shower and a straw..

Ah, the man of my dreams!!!!

[SARGE]

Ah, the man of my dreams!!!!

i just got one of them milk frother-springy wizzy bits too LucyLoo

[vifferman]

hmm, we should talk about the HP LP1000R leaning against my bookcase waiting for a use.

We had a Sun storage unit in our basement; took two of us to carry it downstairs (with difficulty). I was obviously made to military specs, able to withstand a direct hit with a nuke, etc. Number2 son bought it for $25 or something. He also bought a SunBlade workstation (actually a very good buy) and some brand (can't remember) of file server, with 4 (originally 8) HDDs in it. Phark, was that noisy (the company he bought it from lost the lid), and acted as a very good heater. He got so used to the fan noise, that if we turned it off (our room was above it), he complained he couldn't sleep without the white noise. He eventually made a polystyrene case to quieten it down a bit. Alas - he turned it off one day (I think when we went on vacation), and it packed a sad - CPU didn't want to go no more, no more.
It's now a footrest.

[Sniper]

Update: Mrs Insurance is helping me replace the late laptop.