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i don't have a laser cuter but my father did every tile on the whole house and other stuff so i have a lot of tools to use 

is mdf sturdy enough ?

It's decent as long as you use enough of it. As an added bonus it doesn't resonate very much at all so it's excellent for building a quiet machine.

I cannot be held responsible for any bad advice given.

I've no idea why the world is afraid of 3D-printed guns when clearly 3D-printed crossbows would be more practical for now.

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evinta, on 05 Nov 2014 - 2:07 PM, said:

Hes pulling my leg. Hes classic american. 

 

In other words, when i made the mistake of not pushing my RAM all the way in he told me don't worry your a female, the proof is in the pudding.

 

He wouldn't say no to them but he doesn't expect me to. 

classic American? Hay, I almost take offence to that!

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When you take an old laptop, strip it to the aluminium disk (I'm British and I insist on spelling it properly) and make the read/write head into a necklace.

 

EDIT: Also, when a friend asks you to diagnose a problem over the phone due to PC not booting, you ask whats on the Hard drive.

          As they reply "WD Blue" you immediately say "Hard drive failure" and are correct! :) True story ;)

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classic American? Hay, I almost take offence to that!

 

Sorry, he has a weird humor and most americans i found had that! 

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When you stay home from clubbing to finish a friend you and your friend have been working on.

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when you put ram in your icecream

mmmm the vanilla and silicone tastes delicious!

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When everytime someone aske about my phone I have to explain what rooting and custom rom is...

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You can't find a USB stick and resort to an old harddrive and a USB to IDE adapter.

This. I actually carry around an old 250gb IDE drive (in an antistatc bag of course) and an adapter in my tech backpack.

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You get mad when school blocks task manager and CMD

Browse the form for the last 3/4 of programming class

Spend a Friday night watching a tech news show xD

Join school cisco networking class just to get the discounts on cisco products

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Command prompt is locked at my school. They really know how to lock down our computers sadly. I can't access task manager or run dialog - anything....

If you're running windows 7, you can use powershell

What the hey....

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When you've seen pretty much every thread ever created and when they re-appear on  a new-ish forum with members who seem to have just opened their eyes for the first time at tech that you just roll your eyes at the repetitive nature of it all.

I roll with sigs off so I have no idea what you're advertising.

 

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When you get asked to help with every remotely tech-related issue by EVERYONE in school...

 

Not only computers...I am ALWAYS the one doing lighting and sound for any kind of event in school...

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-when you pull off and  disassemble your graphics card cooler for fun/science

 

-when you've pulled your phone apart completely and put it back together because you got bored in class

 

-having random parts and batteries laying around

 

-wanting many parts but deciding to chose what you are going to get by what's on sale on black Friday/boxing day

 

-having to ghetto rig something, i.e. holding my gpu up with a a plastic lid from an origami set

 

-having taken a hacksaw to your pc because something was to large

 

-being the it squad in your school after you might aswell have already been

 

-loading win7 pro to a pc with win7 enterprise and a locked bios

 

-have destroyed at least one mac because they are inferior

 

-having dislike for apple products and all in ones, not to mention alienwares

 

well im out of things right now..

 

 

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...most conversations you have on tech-related topics end in "never mind.."

 

OHHHHH!

 

...surprisingly accurate. When the conversation changes from games and how hard they are to run to the efficiency of different graphics APIs, my friends are completely lost. But I can't blame them...

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When your keychain has a Pentium 4 hanging from it.

 

When you paint a computer part and your family thinks you're weird for doing so.

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When people gawk at you like you're a wizard when all you did was realize that the classroom's projector had a loose DVI cable.

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When your friends think you are a God because you built a computer, and because you fix all your teachers tech issues in like, 2 seconds.

 

When you laugh when you get home at 2:56. Get it? 256-Bit Memory interface? No? Fine.

 

When somebody is talking about Fractals in math and you can't stop thinking of Linus getting pied in the face. 

 

When you can't stand having anything outdated.

 

When you're using a 20 ft. power cord extension just to hook up your speakers.

 

When you're the only person who takes the free Floppy Disks from your neighbor's garage sale.

 

When you get mad at people taking their tech for granted.

 

When you figure out how long the average human would live if Moore's Law applied to the human lifespan. (True story, by my best calculations, you'd live 86 years (A slightly extended lifespan) within 6 actual years)

 

When you're the only kid at school who isn't a filthy console peasant.

 

When you are looked at in the most awkward way when you say the iPhone 6+ is better than the 6.

 

And the list goes on and on and on and on and on...

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oohhh, damn

Believe me, I've tried every last thing.....

Luckily they don't block right click..... thank god....

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Believe me, I've tried every last thing.....

Luckily they don't block right click..... thank god....

Soon...

 

Maybe they'll block user inputs altogether and just run a script during class time...

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Believe me, I've tried every last thing.....

Luckily they don't block right click..... thank god....

I would imagine that you can only use your keyboard to control the computer xD

What the hey....

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Soon...

 

Maybe they'll block user inputs altogether and just run a script during class time...

Maybe they'll just throw keyboards out altogether.

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