This is one of the stupidest computer users I've run into: http://www.giveupalready.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=17506

Don't know about a stupid user, but those signatures made my head spin. I'm wondering whether the users tried to compensate for something...

I got sick of the sigs and turned them off long ago.

"some milky substance", "it is milk, I leave my case off and am stupid enough to still have drinks near it"

What is that thread over there about?

Its about a guy who watched some porn on his new broadband connection, spanked off 'till his man-milk splurted over his computer, and then was confused why there was 'milk' oozing out of his floppy and he couldnt switch his PC on.

Some idiot posted a thread asking for help figuring out why his comp wouldn't turn on and what this "unknown milky substance" was that was in it. After several people posted attempting to help him, he posts again saying that it actually was milk which got in there because he leaves the case off and now the milk has shorted out his motherboard. I wonder if he spilled his cheerios in there too.

That guys an Idiot, and how old is his computer if he overclocks it to 166 :S

You've been watching too much porn yourself

My first thought was it was corrosion caused by a mouse urinating onto the motherboard or the inside of the case, I've seen this come through a couple of times in my workplace, some idiot forgets to put the slot covers into the open expansion slots.

As for the 166MHz, I overclocked a P1 - 120MHz on friday to 166MHz, so it does happen!

(Some people are too cheap to get a new computer so they ask us to chuck in a grunty new CPU fan and cross our fingers that it doesn't fry anyway.)

I wondered about that too. What's really funny is that he apparently plans to buy and install a new motherboard instead of spending the money on a real comp. (Hell, the old webtv unit sitting in my closet has more power than that overclocked PoS.)

So, what you're saying is anything below the GHz scale is not a 'real computer'? What is it I'm working with every day then? One of these 'things' has 300 MHz, the other 50 MHz. Has it ever occured to you that there might be people who don't need more?

Edited by Mr Creosote at 20:16 on May, 17th 2003

Hey, you're talking to someone who probably have one if not two cellulars. One of those easily beat the 300 mhz...

Then why don't we count the number of things I can do with my computers and compare it to the number of things these people can do with their phones? What do we learn? It's not important how fast it is, it's how you use it

Your 300mhz one isn't too bad (the comp I'm on now is only 500mhz), but that 50mhz is pitiful. :-

Also, if he has to overclock his, then it's obviously NOT enough for him. If he spends the money on a new comp instead of fixing that PoS, then he can actually have it perform the way he wants and still leave the cover on! If the case had been on, then the milk probably wouldn't have gotten in, certainly not nearly as much.

Edited by Cypherswipe at 21:30 on May, 17th 2003

And why? I can browse the Internet, I can run a good word processor, I can play music, I can burn CDs, I can play great games with it. Why is that pitiful? What am I missing?

I just installed a 386 motherboard into my 286.

What was the point of that thread anyway? And another good example of humungous sigs. Especially that green and black one.

If he hadn't of been stupid and tripped over, or ate his breakfast in the kitchen then the milk wouldn't have gotten in there either

Morale of the story: Don't eat breakfast around your uncovered computer!

The point of that thread was that (supposedly) he couldn't figure out why his comp wouldn't work nor what the "milky substance" was. Whether he really couldn't figure it out, or whether the whole thread was some kind of lame joke, I have no idea.

I agree, why is 50mhz pitiful? I can recall being beat to a pulp by a ZX81 at 1K chess, with 1024bytes of memory and a processor speed of 3.5mhz or whatever.

All speeds are relative. In 20 years time you will be saying "but that 50Ghz is pitiful" because the current version of windows xxxp, or any other over-inflated-lazy-programmed-software-package requires 10gb of RAM and a 1 terahertz processor to run properly.

I now drive a 2.0 litre car, 5 years ago my 1.6 was acceptable, how did i cope?

Actually, the Spectrum had 64 Kb of RAM ,48 of which could be used by programs, the rest of 16 beeing used by the "OS" , BASIC in most cases. But I also had a floppy Spectrum which could run CP/M too
There was also the 128 Kb vesion