Next door neighbour and us get on pretty well (not the other side, they're tossers)
We have kids similar ages and we all gel.
Tonight I popped round as their teenage lad is mad about football, and sometimes pops round to catch a game with me and the kids. As he asked me earlier if he could watch the liverpool game I said I would let him know.
I nipped round to say that he could catch the second half if he wanted. He was out with his mum, and Dad answers the door. Drenched in sweat, red faced and thoroughly p*ssed off. The remaining kids had been playing up and running him ragged (we've been there)
He was working on his media centre PC, and his youngest had removed the chip without asking (or unclipping it)
£150 quids worth of quad core processor with a row of bent pins.
And one rattled Dad.
I soothed him down, took the chip into my workshop and straightened the pins on my clean (newly assembled bench) under my 10000 lumen SAD light and his camera lens as an ad hoc magnifying glass.
Dropped in to the socket like a charm and the machine booted sweetly. Then I used ProcessMonitor to diagnose his CPU hog and he is watching DVDs happily.
So for all the times in Technical when I rant about leaving num lock on in my VM, I do pay it forward.
I am feeling quite happy with myself atm. What a guy.
We have kids similar ages and we all gel.
Tonight I popped round as their teenage lad is mad about football, and sometimes pops round to catch a game with me and the kids. As he asked me earlier if he could watch the liverpool game I said I would let him know.
I nipped round to say that he could catch the second half if he wanted. He was out with his mum, and Dad answers the door. Drenched in sweat, red faced and thoroughly p*ssed off. The remaining kids had been playing up and running him ragged (we've been there)
He was working on his media centre PC, and his youngest had removed the chip without asking (or unclipping it)
£150 quids worth of quad core processor with a row of bent pins.
And one rattled Dad.
I soothed him down, took the chip into my workshop and straightened the pins on my clean (newly assembled bench) under my 10000 lumen SAD light and his camera lens as an ad hoc magnifying glass.
Dropped in to the socket like a charm and the machine booted sweetly. Then I used ProcessMonitor to diagnose his CPU hog and he is watching DVDs happily.
So for all the times in Technical when I rant about leaving num lock on in my VM, I do pay it forward.
I am feeling quite happy with myself atm. What a guy.
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