Hey Taw,

Have you thought of starting up a little business on the side? I think you could market what you do, as a sort of "Techie Kommando Kit" or something. It'd be a combination start-up + subscription service. You could get somebody to supply you with the "genuine naugahide " wallets with one of those small everything goes in the handle type collapsible screw drivers.


Bad things are good
in Bizzaro World

Esq, back pocket.

Ed, hmmm not a bad idea...

I'm a bit surprised my fellow comrade Taw doesn't mention using XP-Advisor b4 upgrading any computer OS to XP.

Saved my butt more than once.

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What's a XP Advisor, preciousss?

that's becuase i don't believe in upgrades. Clean installs only. back up data then repartition, reformat and fresh install. I'll never do an upgrade of an o/s again and haven't done one for three years.

A screwdriver in my back pocket, Taw? Sounds painful! I know I'd end up sitting on it!

I'm with Taw on this one (actually I almost always am - strange). Clean installs are the way to go. Upgrades offer a slower system full of extraneous files and often do not offer all of the features of a clean install due to "compatibility" issues.

I take a screwdriver everywhere with me (although i did get in trouble taking it on a plane - I had genuinely forgotten it was there, I'm so used to carrying one)

Yeah, those screwdrivers are deadly! What kind do you use? Magnetically tipped? One with interchangeable heads? And don't say Philips!

lol. magnetically-tipped interchangeable ratchet screwdriver, with a special tiny socket head for those little threaded studs on the back of com ports, card connections and motherboard risers. Posidrive and square cross-heads, flat-blades and Allens. And plenty of sockets. All me heads are R quality or chrome-vanadium-manganese alloy. I hate burring.

I often use an electric for just whipping screws out of cases as it just saves time over a long day.

I saw a nice "Stanley" ratcheting screwdriver with many different heads for less than $20 a few weeks ago. I really should have picked it up. Chrome-Vanadium? I picked up a nice set at a swapmeet, and the damn screwdrivers are now so worn it's not funny! Let that be a lesson to you non-computer types; go for good quality screwdrivers!

no, let them burr their case screws to the point where they can't get them off and have to prise the case open thus destroying the flanges and forcing them to buy a new one so i can go "that'll never fit in there, you'll need a new motherboard now..."

stop telling people what we do they're not emant to be self -reliant, they're supposed to rely on us for everything thus we get away with taking the p*ss and having extra long fag breaks and 12 cups of tea a day and extra long dinner times and generally doing what we (I) want. besides, i enjoy the power. You'll put me out of a job, i tell you.

Airport security here is so ... not tight but ... bureacratically impenetrable, its the innocents who are being burned. I had a nice little (1.5" pen knife I used as a key ring fob confiscated from me. It had a little flat head screw driver that, in a pinch, also could be made to turn most small cross-heads as well. But it had a blade so it was taken from me.

Taw - Sorry old man, I'm still learning .

Indy - They're crazy alright, what about all the bureacratic red tape you need to get into America these days? It's going too far I tell you! What's next, DNA testing?!? Gattaca here we come!

Edit: What, no-one has seen Gattaca?!?!

Edited by - esquilax on 2/9/2004 5:56:57 PM

With any tools, you get what you pay for. A tip, if you bur the screw head, and you have a steady hand, you can use a cordless drill, small bit and drill out the head, remove plate/cover/ect. Take a small pair of vise-grip plyers and remove the remaining part of the screw and by a replacement for it. Do it all the time.

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