
"Let's get all the fireworks and pile dog shit on top of them". I can't believe I actually said that, and I still can't believe I was the one who lit them and couldn't run away in time. Tell us about your spectacularly misjudged ideas.
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( , Thu 24 Jul 2014, 13:15)
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Rebuilding an (obviously old) PC and I notice the following:
- I am le tired
- A floppy drive in a PC case under a desk in a bedroom in Scotland is rather dark and hard to see
- The guide plastic, which would normally determine which way up the plug goes in, has fallen off
Do these things deter my lazy, 15-year-old brain? They do not. Do you know what happens when you plug a floppy drive power cable in upside down and turn it on? FIRE. FIRE FUCKING HAPPENS.
Luckily it was just a flash of hotness and some smoke, which was no match for me killing the power and opening a window. Drive was buggered, obviously, but everything else survived.
As for the SECOND drive I incinerated with this method, I have no excuse.
( , Tue 29 Jul 2014, 13:18, 8 replies)

I have about Twelfty dozen spare if you need any... along with lots of useful IDE CD drives and other such stunning technology.
I am now tempted to repeat your experiment. I have no idea why I still have heaps of these stupid old bits of kit.
( , Tue 29 Jul 2014, 17:07, closed)

And that's why I had two spares. But, y'know, I set 'em on fire and all that.
( , Wed 30 Jul 2014, 9:07, closed)

Like the little motors. Or the lasers in the CD-ROMs. And wonder about some use for them. There must be a way of rigging a dozen CD-ROM drive motors to deliver beer from my fridge to the sofa.
( , Wed 30 Jul 2014, 18:05, closed)

was a mediocre hard drive mirror wind chime thing. EDIT:
Sayin that if your easily amused, like I am hard drive mirrors and a laser pen is quite fun.
( , Thu 31 Jul 2014, 3:41, closed)

But the unfortunate truth is that, due to the relentless march of progress, its pretty much useless and worthless.
Better that it gets sent to a third world country where it can be melted down by child labourers to extract the small amount of valuable metal.
( , Wed 30 Jul 2014, 19:49, closed)

carefully looking after our precious resources...
( , Wed 30 Jul 2014, 23:55, closed)
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