We fixed kevins laptop
After desperately trying to help Kevin get the "Worst Laptop Ever"(tm) working with FreeBSD, I finally gave him the instructions to fix the problems he was having with it (random reboots, intermittent pcmcia problems, etc.). The MSN conversation follows:
<Kevin> BSD boot is frozen:
<Brian> here's what I want you do to
<Brian> But you need to follow these instructions VERY CAREFULLY to get this fixed.
<Brian> WRITE THEM DOWN if you have to
<Brian> (it's going to suck, but it's the only way to get this fixed)
<Brian> 1> Power off the laptop
<Brian> 2> Remove the hard drive (it'll take a screw driver)
<Brian> 3> once you've got the hard drive out, set it asside.. we'll need that in a second
<Brian> 4> Throw the laptop in the garbage. Do whatever you have to do to resist the temptation to pull it out again. (Pee on it if you have to).
<Brian> 5> Sell hard drive on eBay.
***** LONG PAUSE ******
<Kevin> kinda funny, when you think about it...
<Kevin> I get a brand new Celeron 2.2 and all I wanna do is play with a broken laptop
<Kevin> well, ready for the good news or the bad news?
<Kevin> (there's only one news... it's all in your interpretation)
<Kevin> when jamming the PCMCIA card into the broken slot, I bent a pin, subsequently damaging the receptecle end of the LAN card and ruining PCMCIA0
<Kevin> ROFL but the story gets better.
<Kevin> as I was trying to get it out, I pulled the dongle off of the LAN cable
<Kevin> I bent the dongle end, trying to use it to pull out the card
<Kevin> and then broke the plastic clip of the LAN cable as it caught the edge of the desk
<Kevin> BUT WAIT!@!
<Kevin> pissed off at myself for pulling out the PCMCIA card that I KNEW should not be removed...
<Kevin> I dropped into my lawn chair (computer chair) and my shorts split right down the buttcrack
<Kevin> ROFL it's all true!
<Brian> phsaw
<Brian> you lie
<Kevin> NO@@!!!
<Kevin> I swear it!!!!
<Kevin> Long pause after your 1,2,3,4,5 list was me changing my shorts ROFL... I PROMISE!!!
<Kevin> I always tell you the truth about my lies.
<Kevin> this one is not a lie.
<Brian> I expect a blog entry for this.
<Kevin> ROFL
<Kevin> HELL NO!
<Brian> if you don't blog it, I will.
<Kevin> only fat people split their shorts down the middle
<Kevin> I'm not fat, I'm big-boned </cartman>
<Kevin> no blog.
<Brian> I'm formatting the conversation as we speak
<Kevin> You suck!