What parts have you stolen from the family computer?)...

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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

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You did this to your school?

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.

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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.

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Hey, I was talking generalities. I saw you didn't actually DO any-
thing.....it's just the overall direction of this thread that me tite
*ss puckers over....didn't mean to offend you specifically....

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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......

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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.

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.

The only thing I ever boosted off my family's PC was its Windows XP sticker.

My family was too poor to own computers, then when I got older and was able to buy things for myself, I got one. And never has a member of my family had a computer that was faster than mine. They are usually old throw aways that I have no use for. Well except for that time my Dad snubbed me and bought a POS HP. I was pissed about that. But yeah stealing hardware is kind of lame. I've spent a summer with a friend who had a GF3 when all I had was a R7500 and I was tempted but not stupid.:p

But the software is a differant story....;)

I have never stolen from my parents PC. My dad wants to build a new one sometime soon and I am actually probably gonna give him my 1600+ when my Barton comes this week.

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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

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grr! you're so lucky... i hope i can do something like that in my cybercorps class next year!

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Originally posted by imayoda
The only thing I ever boosted off my family's PC was its Windows XP sticker.

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haha i took a pentium 4 sticker from a school computer last year

Again, I didn't *steal* any of these parts. The school said I could have them. Just wanted to make sure everyone knew that.

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Originally posted by Trunks
Again, I didn't *steal* any of these parts. The school said I could have them. Just wanted to make sure everyone knew that.

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OK, sometimes this gets a bit 'legal', I guess. Reading that 'the tech guy'
said u can have them doesn't exactly imply that it was OK
with the school. Now, I could see you asking the school, them saying
'no way, we need them' and then throwing them out just to be creepy
about it.....

stealing from the family computer...... well it never happens because the family comp is my old PC! and my current one is always way faster :D

I am sorry, but I believe you should leave your sister's pc alone. You built it for her, so it is her property now. However I see no reason in trying to explain to her why you want to swap parts, and if she says no, at least you were honest about it.

I swapped my Radeon 8500 with my brother's 9700 non-pro the first day he got his computer parts. Of course my brother is a computer dummie so he didn't notice a thing.:D

Stealing from friends and "stealing" from school are two fairly different situations. Your friends generally work hard for the money they put into their PCs and are quite proud of them. Also, if they are even halfway computer savvy, they'd notice if you swapped cards/RAM/procs with them. I, for one, wouldn't want to shaft my friends because that's what they are: friends.

Now school, on the other hand, is completely different. To clear things up, all the parts I took from school (the HDs, LAN cards, RAM, etc.) were not being used AT ALL. They were stuck in ancient computers meant for opening up and staring at. That's it. Should I have left a perfectly good, working 30GB Western Digital HD in a machine with a Athlon K-6 450MHz and 32MB of PC100 RAM? One that sat under a table for 99% of its existence? Of course not.

To add to that, our school system just pasted a massive levy and got a a$$load of money. If they need to replace anything, they'd be able to more than easily (come on, it's not like I took entire PCs). My IT room needed a good spring cleaning anyways (if an IT room has more than 10 Pentium 1s and ISA mobos, it NEEDS a cleaning).

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Originally posted by Chow-Yun-Fat
Stealing from friends and "stealing" from school are two fairly different situations. Your friends generally work hard for the money they put into their PCs and are quite proud of them. Also, if they are even halfway computer savvy, they'd notice if you swapped cards/RAM/procs with them. I, for one, wouldn't want to shaft my friends because that's what they are: friends.

Now school, on the other hand, is completely different. To clear things up, all the parts I took from school (the HDs, LAN cards, RAM, etc.) were not being used AT ALL. They were stuck in ancient computers meant for opening up and staring at. That's it. Should I have left a perfectly good, working 30GB Western Digital HD in a machine with a Athlon K-6 450MHz and 32MB of PC100 RAM? One that sat under a table for 99% of its existence? Of course not.

To add to that, our school system just pasted a massive levy and got a a$$load of money. If they need to replace anything, they'd be able to more than easily (come on, it's not like I took entire PCs). My IT room needed a good spring cleaning anyways (if an IT room has more than 10 Pentium 1s and ISA mobos, it NEEDS a cleaning).

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Now I am not going to be judgemental, I am no saint, but your post makes absolutely no sense.:confused: As it is your friends and family who pay the levy, and the property taxes. So tell me how do you figure no one gets hurt?:confused:

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Originally posted by hwmicre


OK, sometimes this gets a bit 'legal', I guess. Reading that 'the tech guy'
said u can have them doesn't exactly imply that it was OK
with the school. Now, I could see you asking the school, them saying
'no way, we need them' and then throwing them out just to be creepy
about it.....

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I asked the tech guy what was going to be done with it, then when he said they were going to be tossed, I asked the vice principal if I could snag some parts from them. I wouldn't trust the tech guys at my old school simply because when RAM went bad and the system wouldn't boot, they'd order a whole new system because "they don't know what's wrong"...The next day I brought in some new PC133 ram and stuck it in, and it worked. He was like :eek: wow that saved us a lot of money, you should be doing what I do. :rolleyes:

My PC is the family computer of course its mostly mine because my wife doesn't like the Tornado

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Originally posted by sapasion
My PC is the family computer of course its mostly mine because my wife doesn't like the Tornado

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the wife doesn't like that airport you got running in your home? ;) hehehe...i'm really glad i got my fan controller, otherwise i think i would hear quite a bit of complaining about mine...:p

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Originally posted by hwmicre


Hey, I was talking generalities. I saw you didn't actually DO any-
thing.....it's just the overall direction of this thread that me tite
*ss puckers over....didn't mean to offend you specifically....

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Oh no, not at all. I knew you were speaking generally, I just thought I'd respond specifically. ;) I didn't really take it as a personal flame. To be perfectly honest I agree that justifying it through 'they're not going to miss it' logic doesn't make it right. (nevermind that I'm essentially arguing the opposite on a P2P thread :p ) Someone has to take the moral high-ground, I just prefer it not be me whilst posting.:D

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Originally posted by schultz


the wife doesn't like that airport you got running in your home? ;) hehehe...i'm really glad i got my fan controller, otherwise i think i would hear quite a bit of complaining about mine...:p

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Yeah I'm considering getting one too I guess.