Pickles von Brine

Human experiments, with cake as a reward.

"This was a triumph
I'm making a note here
HUGE SUCCESS"

 

I didnt have too much of that issue. I would say after a year we would have 10-15 machines that never got picked up. When you give people a call, text and email that their shit is going to get put into the trash/sold and data destroyed people come running. When they dont and it is a nice machine you make a nice profit. 

Before anything, make sure you know your local laws AND talk to a lawyer who understands these kinds of things before doing the above. The most important part is the  person must have signed the paperwork at the time they dropped off. If they haven't you are pretty much boned though after a year and NUMEROUS attempts to contact someone most places aren't going to make a fuss if your throw their shit out/sell it. 
 
Again, you must know and understand your laws AND make sure that you are in the clear otherwise you could get into legal trouble. 

Most of the stuff that got left behind was garbage. What my shop did is attempt to contact the owner several times. After 6 months it got moved into quarentine. If it is still there for 6 months we would remove the drives, place them into a safe and store them there for another 6 months and get rid of the system. Then, after a year and a half of having someone's drive it got destroyed. 
Again, we would attempt to contact the customer NUMEROUS times during this time via call, text and email. All recorded into our ticketing system. All our procedures were in plain english on the paperwork they signed. Our process was also emailed to them NUMEROUS times during this time as well. 

In PC repair it is a pain in the ass dealing with stuff like this. 

I didnt have too much of that issue. I would say after a year we would have 10-15 machines that never got picked up. When you give people a call, text and email that their shit is going to get put into the trash/sold and data destroyed people come running. When they dont and it is a nice machine you make a nice profit. 

Before anything, make sure you know your local laws AND talk to a lawyer who understands these kinds of things before doing the above. The most important part is the  person must have signed the paperwork at the time they dropped off. If they haven't you are pretty much boned though after a year and NUMEROUS attempts to contact someone most places aren't going to make a fuss if your throw their shit out/sell it. 
 
Again, you must know and understand your laws AND make sure that you are in the clear otherwise you could get into legal trouble. 

Most of the stuff that got left behind was garbage. What my shop did is attempt to contact the owner several times. After 6 months it got moved into quarentine. If it is still there for 6 months we would remove the drives, place them into a safe and store them there for another 6 months and get rid of the system. Then, after a year and a half of having someone's drive it got destroyed. 
Again, we would attempt to contact the customer NUMEROUS times during this time via call, text and email. All recorded into our ticketing system. All our procedures were in plain english on the paperwork they signed. Our process was also emailed to them NUMEROUS times during this time as well. 

In PC repair it is a pain in the ass dealing with stuff like this. 

Don't call it a business unless you have an active business license.

He has a pretty good point though. Rather forward thinking in regards to his family and kids. 

Considering how much time I know some of you spend on online forums, it's kind of comical that you are feeding such an obvious troll.
 
"do u even no ur describing a parasocial relationship?? Omg get help!"
 
You gave exactly what op wanted. 
 
Well played, op, I suppose 😩
 
Locked. 

You need to get parts. I dont know where you do that in europe. Amazon? But this guide should cover everything.
Also, you need a budget so you can try to fit parts. That is the biggest thing right now. How much do you want to spend?

You need to get parts. I dont know where you do that in europe. Amazon? But this guide should cover everything.
Also, you need a budget so you can try to fit parts. That is the biggest thing right now. How much do you want to spend?

My guess is, it was a convenient spot to put the infrastructure at the time that grew organically to the point where it's out of space but would take a substantial amount of work to move. It was a huge improvement from the en-suite master bathroom at the Langley house, but they've long since outgrown it.
 
When they built the main studios, there was a staircase on the 'outside' of the original two-story office space and the server closet took up the space underneath it. Since that's where the servers and switches wound up, that's where all the network wiring for the building (at the time) landed. Since the network wiring was there, and the rack was there, new servers went there. It's also right next to the edit den, which made high speed networking relatively easy several years ago.
 
Now that they have the Lab 2 space, and it sounds like the logistics department and hardware 'warehouse' is moving there, they've got an opportunity to "do it right" with the space in the main studio unit.
 
What I would do is build a new server room with more accessibility, proper cooling, and better sound isolation. Leave space for at least three full height, full depth server racks and the Eaton UPS. Cooling should be handled by at least redundant mini-splits, each of which can handle the entire heat load of the room (so one can be taken offline for service without having to worry about heat). The existing server closet can then become a switch closet, housing just a couple rack mounted switches and a rack mounted UPS. These will support the existing structured cabling in the building, with a couple high speed backbone connections back to the new server room.

Yep and it is a lot more fragile than you think. Though that being said that thin layer has saved slipped screw driver from being a disaster. 

Having worked in computer repair for 15 years as long as the board had no power going through it your are fine (as long as it hasn't shorted anything, IE because it had power). I have dropped screw drivers, had screw drivers slip and scratch boards, had boards bend at odd angles due to being held in with weird clips. Hell I have had laptops with USB ports sheared or managed and still working. Even more so some system with HEAVY corrosion and other nonsense on boards and somehow they were working...

As long as none of the surface mount components got damaged, traces got broken etc you are fine.
 
That being said, please becareful regardless.  Boards can be surprisingly sensitive and break easily or they can be surprising durable. 

That is good to know. I will have to check out Xero. 

Shoe sizes are arbitrary nonsense based off wonky antiquated units of measurement. Basically all you can do is figure out what size you are for a given manufacturer and hope they don't change their lasts too much. (I take anywhere between a 9 and 11 in US sizes, and either 42 or 43 in European sizes, depending on which brand and kind of shoe it is.)
 
At least some manufacturers like Xero give you measurements (or even printable templates) so you can get a rough idea of what size you probably need before you order. 

One of my most frustrating experiences was from working with my current boss. I tried to explain to her the issues that came up when I had to redo her machine, why things were different and that I needed time with her to get things sorted... she literally waved me off and said I don't wanna hear about it. I blew my lid on that one. I have 13 years as a professional (17 years total if you count all my time since I was 13) in the computer repair business (hundreds of hours with on-site experience and in-home networking easily as well), 4 in professional data recovery. being disregarded like that really really upset me. 

Second time she couldn't figure out why her PDFs were not printing right. I had asked her what program she uses and she had no idea. She didn't know what a program was... I even showered her various programs that did PDFs and she just looked at me with this dumb look of bewilderment. Then, proceeded to just ignore me after I asked her some more questions...
 
Told her no more computer help. She will have to call someone. 
 
Side note. I left the professional computer repair world because I wasn't making enough money and the stress got to me. Until I left I had no idea how much it weighed on my mind. Now, I got a wonderful separation of work and home life, do some consulting on the side and work with dogs all day making a lot more money and a lot less stress. Though my boss can be rather infuriating. 

 

LTT is becoming a clothing/apparel company and i respect it, i just finished the creator warehouse video tour and wow - it was amazing how much it is becoming a clothing company. 
 
I respect it, as everyone of their viewers need clothes while no one ‘needs’ tech as much as apparel.

He has a pretty good point though. Rather forward thinking in regards to his family and kids. 

He has a pretty good point though. Rather forward thinking in regards to his family and kids. 

The fun times with DDR2 ram. I had that exact OCZ ram for my system. 

Lets do a super computer from 2009 when avatar was made 😄

https://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2009/12/22/the-data-crunching-powerhouse-behind-avatar

 
 

He has a pretty good point though. Rather forward thinking in regards to his family and kids. 

He has a pretty good point though. Rather forward thinking in regards to his family and kids. 

He has a pretty good point though. Rather forward thinking in regards to his family and kids. 

Ram didn't do 1366. It was 469 X 2 = 938. I have had my ram up to 1000 before but it was unstable. The GA-EP45-UD3P is rather legendary for its FSB overclocks. 

GA-EP45-UD3P will run things just fine. I had my ram running at 938Mhz with a 469 FSB

Surprised those have lasted so long. I fixit toolkits have been the only ones to ever stand up me and if a bit breaks you contact them get a new one. Life time warrantee.