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My second laptop that's shorted out and had smoke coming from the back. What am I doing to these things? -- nm

Posted by jnine (aka jnine) Oct 26 '11, 22:04

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First you need to send me links to the pr0n sites you're viewing. -- nm - Qale Oct 27, 00:10
get a cooling pad -- nm - Bacon on a droid Oct 26, 22:14 3
- Both times it seems to have been caused by the place you plug the cord into. It works fine on the docking station. I think it's a problem with the - jnine Oct 26, 22:18 1
  - Grounding issue, maybe. At least if it was plugged in both times -- nm - Beryllium Oct 26, 22:19
- not a bad idea actually they can knock 5-10 degree c off the temp -- nm - Karl_S Oct 26, 22:17
unrelated: i work with a USC grad in one of my law offices. apparently some people think they're even bigger snobs down there than at UCLA -- nm - poxie Oct 26, 22:13 7
- Is this supposed to be news? They are proud of their snobbishness. They don't deny it. -- nm - jnine Oct 26, 22:31 3
  - i just don't want to believe my lil' bubers is one of the snobs, and not the slobs -- nm - poxie Oct 26, 22:33 2
    - There have to be a few non snobs there. The rest of them need someone to look down at. -- nm - jnine Oct 26, 22:40 1
      - hey, maybe that was musubi! -- nm - poxie Oct 26, 22:44
- Heck yea USC is more snotty than UCLA. -- nm - James Bond (aka Igor) Oct 26, 22:25 2
  - you are the 99% - poxie Oct 26, 22:26 1
    - if he makes $$ they will, it's all they care about. He's going to be a rich doctor with a fancy car, he will turn into a 1%er. He is also the one - jnine Oct 26, 22:36
laptops do NOT go in the dishwasher -- nm - peglegpete Oct 26, 22:13 5
- That isn't how you clean the screen? Maybe it is me. -- nm - jnine Oct 26, 22:52 4
  - dishwashers are too hot, take in the shower with you - zeitgeist Oct 26, 22:57 3
    - I don't know, do they? -- nm - jnine Oct 26, 23:01 1
      - IIRC there was a problem with a battery supplier and there are utubes of laptops bursting into flames in the middle of a conference, I think some.. - zeitgeist Oct 27, 00:37
    - yes, but it is greek fire, and most people do not know you can only put it out with sand. -- nm - peglegpete Oct 26, 23:00
Stop sitting with it on your lap -- nm - Karl_S Oct 26, 22:11 1
- The first one was on my bed and scorched my duvet, the second one was on my glass table. -- nm - jnine Oct 26, 22:15
The only real answer is that it can't handle your hotness. :P -- nm - James Bond (aka Igor) Oct 26, 22:07 3
- I've missed you. ;) The IT people at work told me I use it too much. I thought I was supposed to get my work done on it. I guess I'll have to tell - jnine Oct 26, 22:12 2
  - hehe. I am on internal medicine now. :/ 6am-6pm, 6 days a week. eww -- nm - James Bond (aka Igor) Oct 26, 22:23 1
    - Someone I know who was at UCLA when you were just started med school at Ohio State. they don't seem to spend anytime in the hospital or with patients - jnine Oct 26, 22:50

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