Stupid laptop tricks

[gabemcg]

Originally posted by: johngute
now was it really necessary to upload 20 pictures of that. do you have any idea how many good looking ladies you bumped of the last 25 page with all those worthless pics?

agreed

 

[McCarthy]

Originally posted by: sm8000
Oh, and if you had bothered to pay attention and think while reading this thread (you did read, right?) you would have learned that this model among others uses a flip-out modem jack (think X-jack) which he probably broke, and then put his own solution on (costing he and his department some money and grief) rather than simply order an analog PCMCIA modem card. Too bad he was as incompetent at that as you are at reading. Troll.

I missed the part where it cost the department money and caused grief. Did his modification cause the computer to stop working? I don't understand what the downside of the repair was.

 

[Steve]

Mainly that the dept. will (most likely) need to buy a whole new laptop. I doubt Toshiba will repair or replace this thing as it's so old (and surely out of warranty, it's a Pentium II machine), but hey you never know. We'll probably be contacting them tomorrow.

 

[McCarthy]

Why do they need to buy a whole new laptop? You can still go the PCMCIA or external modem route. Just snip the wires and glue in a piece to cover the hole. Or for that matter what prevents you from putting on a better looking plug and issuing it to someone? Those flip out plugs seem to be begging to be broken anyway, get a new one and it'll just get broken too. Does your company have a "all computers must use original factory components" rule?

Give ya $50 as is if it works 🙂

 

[Shawn]

If the modem still worked no reason to but a new one.

 

[KoolDrew]

Originally posted by: Confused
Looks like the modem port got yanked out (still plugged into the wall and moved away?) and it was a creative way to re-attach a modem connection to it 🙂

 

[Steve]

Originally posted by: McCarthy
Why do they need to buy a whole new laptop? You can still go the PCMCIA or external modem route. Just snip the wires and glue in a piece to cover the hole. Or for that matter what prevents you from putting on a better looking plug and issuing it to someone? Those flip out plugs seem to be begging to be broken anyway, get a new one and it'll just get broken too. Does your company have a "all computers must use original factory components" rule?

Give ya $50 as is if it works 🙂

We do prefer that users not make potentially permanent or damaging mods to the equipment we issue them, so as to facilitate warranty service if need be. However in this case I don't know what the next step will be. Sure we could put in a working modem card and cover the stupid hole, and I don't think we'd go the route of replacing the flimsy part, but most likely it'll be retired. I doubt we sell it privately, sorry, but I'll ask anyway - if we do I'd buy some of the newer, faster stuff used in the server room 😉 Anyway we're a 501(c)(3) non-profit corp (I think we're also a charitable org) so we may just donate it among others to someplace needing computers. We'd probably do some sort of fix first.

 

[flot]

Originally posted by: sm8000

We do prefer that users not make potentially permanent or damaging mods to the equipment we issue them, so as to facilitate warranty service if need be. However in this case I don't know what the next step will be. Sure we could put in a working modem card and cover the stupid hole, and I don't think we'd go the route of replacing the flimsy part, but most likely it'll be retired. I doubt we sell it privately, sorry, but I'll ask anyway - if we do I'd buy some of the newer, faster stuff used in the server room 😉 Anyway we're a 501(c)(3) non-profit corp (I think we're also a charitable org) so we may just donate it among others to someplace needing computers. We'd probably do some sort of fix first.

I'm confused, you keep insisting that this guy did something wrong. He taped a phone jack to the outside of his laptop. What exactly is the problem here? If anything he *saved* you guys some $$, it's just that now you are insisting on "fixing" it.

 

[Pepsi90919]

why did you take 308 pictures of the same thing

 

[Steve]

Originally posted by: flot
I'm confused, you keep insisting that this guy did something wrong. He taped a phone jack to the outside of his laptop. What exactly is the problem here? If anything he *saved* you guys some $$, it's just that now you are insisting on "fixing" it.

He damaged the thing in the process, it'll cost more to fix than a simple modem card would have. I don't think we'll bother with attempting any fix on our own if his dept. will cough up for a nice, new, warrantied machine though. But we can't donate damaged goods either.

Pepsi, 308-15=293. You're a little off 😉

 

[djheater]

Originally posted by: Pepsi90919
why did you take 308 pictures of the same thing

More importantly, why is he so mad about it.

The guy did something creative... almost everyone here will think that's cool. We don't give a flying fvck about how much money it cost your company...

 

[cirthix]

i'm guessing its a mod to charge a laptop over a phone line