Everyone in my family runs computers that I built. For free. In exchange I get free use of my brother's extensive woodshop... it's a fair trade.
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Everyone in my family runs computers that I built. For free. In exchange I get free use of my brother's extensive woodshop... it's a fair trade.
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Originally posted by Chow-Yun-Fat
My brother's friend gave him a really low-end pc he had laying around. It wasn't much, but it did have a better vid card than my mom's (my mom's PC is the biggest POS on the planet). Seeing as how he wasn't using it (I think it still needs a HD) I grabbed it when he was away and installed it in my mom's PC, along with swapping a 32MB PC100 chip with a 64MB from my brother's. Mom's PC is slightly faster.
I'm thinking at the end of the month when I get my PC (it's okay, I'll get a really good one when I get a job), I'll steal my dad's sound card. It's nothing special, but it's better than integrated.
Other PC parts I've "liberated" from my high school IT class:
2 sticks of 64MB PC100 SDRAM
30GB Western Digital HD
20GB Western Digital HD
6.4GB WD HD
2 LAN cards
I would've taken a certain mobo I was looking at, but it would've been to hard to easily steal (plus without a anti-static bag, it'd get pretty messed up in my bookbag).
That's pretty ghetto dude... ::shakes head::
Who the hell would steal from a school? I mean stealing from your parents PC is nothing.. but stealing from a school? lol :D :p
In my house we used to have some really old computers (Mine was the fastest in the house, a 486SX lol! But trust me now, I have a p4 1.6ghz and 1gb of ddr2700) Let's see, I stole a 16mb memory chip from my dad's 386 once. Only to fry it when I tried to put it in my 486.
I was also interning for a computer production company. (Small-time business. Nothing like Comcrap or any of the large or popular PC manufacturers.) I "picked up" a bunch of casescrews and a few ATA cables.
I couldn't "pick up" anything of any sort of worth. Too many videocameras sitting around the place lol.
Now, that was a worthless heist.
Once, a few years ago, my aunts husband gave me his pc to fix. When I took a look at it I noticed he had a zip drive installed. Thoughts ran though my head of what I could with my very own zip drive. The next day I went to go buy him a cdrom drive to replace his broken one. After I installed the new hardware and started to put it back together I decided to go for it and take his zip drive. I knew he didn't use it or even know what it was, so I figured he wouldn't miss it. Once I had it out, there was a big gaping hole in the tower that I knew he'd notice so I took the broken cdrom drive and stuck it below the new one. Ha, when he got it back he never even noticed and the zip drive I *liberated* has served me well ever since.
next year i'll be in cybercorps, which is basicly a computer hardware class... maybe i'll be able to swipe some little stuff from there! ;)
Family computer?It's my old pc and my parents get my permission to use it :D
question: Why in the world is her pc better than yours? lol! I would neever let anybody in my family have a better pc than me.:D
Ever since I told one of my house mates (who knows nothing about computers) that his Dell and my custom rig were pretty much on par stat wise (proc, RAM, etc) the only exception being his TI 4600 video card which puts puts my sorry Geforce4 MX to shame, he's been lording it over me. Like suggesting that I do things on his computer because it'll handle it better (like burning CD's or downloading crap). I've been itching to swap out his card because he'll never know the friggin difference. Or possibly running Folding@home on his rig under my name and let it use up all the processor cycles it wants. Is sweet, sweet revenge really so wrong? I'm starting to think of it as divine retribution from the hardware gods with me simply as a willing instrument.
Well there was a computer lab at my school, there were a bunch of parts laying around. The tech guy was in there, and I asked what was going to be done with those parts. He told me they were gonna be tossed or something, but that the school wasn't gonna keep em. I grabbed about 10-12 40gb hard drives, 6-7 Pr 1.6ghz, 5-6 P3 733mhz (and their respectable fans) and enough motherboards/memory/vid cards (crappy ati rage pro 128) /cases to build about 12 computers. School didn't care, they were gonna get rid of em.
I ended up selling the computers to people for about $250 each. I was a very happy boy in those days :D I was the only High School Senior to be able to walk around school with $1000 and not worry about money:D :D :D :D
LOL! :D :D Man! you're sooo..evil!:eek: But it's nothing I wouldn't do myself!;) :DQuote:
Originally posted by Solidarity
Ever since I told one of my house mates (who knows nothing about computers) that his Dell and my custom rig were pretty much on par stat wise (proc, RAM, etc) the only exception being his TI 4600 video card which puts puts my sorry Geforce4 MX to shame, he's been lording it over me. Like suggesting that I do things on his computer because it'll handle it better (like burning CD's or downloading crap). I've been itching to swap out his card because he'll never know the friggin difference. Or possibly running Folding@home on his rig under my name and let it use up all the processor cycles it wants. Is sweet, sweet revenge really so wrong? I'm starting to think of it as divine retribution from the hardware gods with me simply as a willing instrument.
You did this to your school?Quote:
Originally posted by Trunks
Well there was a computer lab at my school, there were a bunch of parts laying around. The tech guy was in there, and I asked what was going to be done with those parts. He told me they were gonna be tossed or something, but that the school wasn't gonna keep em. I grabbed about 10-12 40gb hard drives, 6-7 Pr 1.6ghz, 5-6 P3 733mhz (and their respectable fans) and enough motherboards/memory/vid cards (crappy ati rage pro 128) /cases to build about 12 computers. School didn't care, they were gonna get rid of em.
I ended up selling the computers to people for about $250 each. I was a very happy boy in those days :D I was the only High School Senior to be able to walk around school with $1000 and not worry about money:D :D :D :D
Man, am I the only prude who isn't too cool with this thread?? All I
see is pretty much a lot of justification/rationalization. I'd love
to see how everyone would feel if the situation was reversed in some
way, as in, 'Gee, he never watches TV, so I guess I'll just 'borrow'
his. And, well, sell it. I mean, he's working and has more bucks - I
need the $$$ more than Him.....'
Again, if my *ss is too tight, well......
Hey man, I didn't take it, I just want to really bad. :D
Depending on who you ask, there is a difference.
Hey, I was talking generalities. I saw you didn't actually DO any-Quote:
Originally posted by Solidarity
Hey man, I didn't take it, I just want to really bad. :D
Depending on who you ask, there is a difference.
thing.....it's just the overall direction of this thread that me tite
*ss puckers over....didn't mean to offend you specifically....
nope, youre not the only one. stealing is stealing. PERIOD. maybe when you guys actually grow up and start paying for things yourself, youll realize this. i would beat some A$$ if you fellas did this to me and i found out.Quote:
Originally posted by hwmicre
Man, am I the only prude who isn't too cool with this thread?? All I
see is pretty much a lot of justification/rationalization. I'd love
to see how everyone would feel if the situation was reversed in some
way, as in, 'Gee, he never watches TV, so I guess I'll just 'borrow'
his. And, well, sell it. I mean, he's working and has more bucks - I
need the $$$ more than Him.....'
Again, if my *ss is too tight, well......
way to treat your "family and friends" who love you and make sacrifices. im sure you "love" them. im sure this will fall on deaf ears, since its so cool to be a pirate.