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How To Cool Down A Laptop Computer Before It Catches on Fire

Have you ever worked on your laptop laying on the couch with it resting on your stomach? Slowly you realize it is burning a hole in your body.

 

1. Get a meat thermometer that will monitor the temperature. Put it in the DVD drive. 

 

2. Shut down thirty or forty of the seventy-three windows you have open.

 

3. Buy a small cooling fan on the table next to the couch and point it at the laptop.

 

4. If it is still hot buy a box fan and point it at the laptop.

 

5. If the laptop still feels hot get a tower fan and set it up to blow directly on the monitor. Leave all the fans blowing at once.

 

6. You may still need cooling power. Knock a hole in the wall and install a fan used by car-makers to test wind dynamics on new models. Run the giant cord down the block and tap into the city power grid. It will start up slow but within 15 minutes your skin will be was pushed back against your face and papers will be flying all over the room. Crack a window to release some pressure.

 

 

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ID Ten T Error

I was having trouble with my computer. So I called Harold the computer guy, to come over. Harold clicked a couple of buttons and solved the problem. He gave me a bill for a minimum service call.

As he was walking away, I called after him, “So, what was wrong?”

“It was an ID ten T error.”

“An ID ten T error? What’s that in case I need to fix it again?”

Harold grinned. “Haven’t you ever heard of an ID ten T error before?”

“No.”

“Write it down,” he said, “and I think you’ll figure it out.”

So I wrote it down …… I D 1 0 T.

I used to like Harold.

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Work and Careers

Nine Questions – Engineering Joke

Two young engineers applied for a single position at a computer company. They both had the same qualifications. In order to determine which individual to hire, the applicants were asked to take a test by the head engineer.

Upon completion of the test, both men missed only one of the questions. The head engineer went to the first applicant and said, “Thank you for your interest, but we’ve decided to give the job to the other applicant.”

“And why would you be doing that? We both got 9 questions correct.”

“We have based our decision not on the correct answers, but on the question you missed.”

“And just how would one incorrect answer be better than the other?”

“Simple. Your fellow applicant put down on question #5, ‘I don’t know.’ You put down, ‘Neither do I.'”

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Tech and Science

Tech Joke: Mountain Road

A software engineer, a hardware engineer and their manager are in the car going to an industry convention in their rental car. To get there they must navigate a treacherous mountain road. While they are coming down a steep and narrow incline the car’s brakes go out. The car starts going way too fast and they all fear this will be the end of their lives. But somehow the driver manages to not careen off the road and they glide to a stop once safely down the hill.

They all get out and catch their breath.

The manager is first to speak, “Well, let me get my cell phone so I can call the tow truck to take it to the garage.”

The hardware engineer says, “No, no, no, just pop the hood and we can fix the problem ourselves.”

The software engineer says, “Guys, just wait. Before we do anything we should take it up the hill and see if it happens again!”

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Mountain Road

A software engineer, a hardware engineer and their manager are in the car going to an industry convention in their rental car. To get there they must navigate a treacherous mountain road. While they are coming down a steep and narrow incline the car’s brakes go out. The car starts going way too fast and they all fear this will be the end of their lives. But somehow the driver manages to not careen off the road and they glide to a stop once safely down the hill.

They all get out and catch their breath.

The manager is first to speak, “Well, let me get my cell phone so I can call the tow truck to take it to the garage.”

The hardware engineer says, “No, no, no, just pop the hood and we can fix the problem ourselves.”

The software engineer says, “Guys, just wait. Before we do anything we should take it up the hill and see if it happens again!”

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