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more about #repair Cash907Censored: On the bright side, if he makes a large enough stink about this, he's in for a new laptop. Merry Christmas, from Office Depot! more » GitEmSteveDave_ My Brute Dojo Code CDIAFIFE: Well, honestly, as long as the connectors to the board are OK, the only solution is to re-attach the port to the board. I'm guessing someone didn't l... more » nutbastard: One of the last remaining WWI veterans died the other day. he was 96, i believe. when asked about his longevity, and what enabled him to live for so l... more » jonathan.galinski001: There is such a thing as 3rd. hand smoke, it is in the residues left behind from tobacco smoke. It is toxic! It is especially toxic to babies and sm... more » Bryan Williams: "the fact that OSHA lists cigarette smoke as a biohazard." If the employee refuses to fix a machine based on OSHA then Apple could be sued for not com... more » karmaghost: lol @ smokers in general. they call the lottery the "idiot tax," but i think the taxes levied on cigarettes beats the lottery any day. more » Bokusatsu_Tenshi: "We want you to buy a new computer and don't want to fix your old one so here's a convenient lame excuse so you stop bothering us". more » jepzilla: If the smoking has actually damaged the computer, then I see no problem with denying warranty coverage. But denying warranty coverage because of OSHA... more » EdificeComplex: As someone who suffers from vasomotor rhinitis, I can attest to the fact that smells from gasoline, paint and smoke can cause some serious infections.... more » nomayo: I used to mod playstations a long time ago and a dude dropped one off with me. As soon as I opened the case, like forty dead cockroaches and ten or t... more » Maori_Yelir: That's a dick move. This second hand smoke shit is completely out of line. It's an excuse to subjugate a group of people in a politically correct way.... more » macpatrik: I was not denied support because I was a smoker. Like an idiot, I kept an ashtray right under my iMac. The smoke of course rose up into the iMac and ... more » adamc007: Smoking is the nastiest thing ever. more » Shamoononon: I shave my legs.: Can you turn down people for being booger pickers? I'd hate to handle a computer of a booger picker, that would be gross. more » AmphetamineCrown: WTF is everyone talking about? I used to smoke once upon a time and only "effect" I ever saw on my computer was that the CRT screen got nasty because... more » jessedybka: Regardless of whether Apple considers it a biohazard or not, the Applecare warranty says that it doesn't cover: "Damage due to ... improper environmen... more » Sanfo: After working on and repairing many machines owned and operated by smokers, I can understand where Apple is coming from. Nicotine is disgusting- not o... more » Lizard_King: Was cigarette smoke inside the unit, just waiting to be released? If an object smells of cigarette smoke, it is not akin to breathing in smoke; you ca... more » traviscollins: I worked at Texas A&M's computing and informations services student computer repair desk for 7 years. I know it sounds odd, but I totally get where Ap... more » Demo318: I used to be both an Apple-product user and a smoker. Then my lung collapsed. Now, I'm just an Apple-product user. more » -
#repair
Office Depot's Laptop Glue Fix Fails in Predictably Epic Fashion
What's the best way to fix a broken-off power port on an Acer Extensa? If you said "glue the sucker back in there," you might just work in Office Depot's repair department. You're also, in that so-painfully-obvious-it-hurts-my-face way, real wrong. More » -
#repair
Fix a Loose Battery Cover on Your Droid
Verizon's Droid is a very capable smartphone, but a loose battery cover makes mobile life with some models less than ideal. A small screwdriver tweak, however, appears to repair the problem. More » -
#apple
Apple Denying Support to Smokers?
The Consumerist is reporting that two Mac users were denied AppleCare coverage because the owners were smokers. Not because the computers were damaged by second hand smoke, but because of OSHA regulations. More » -
#dell
Dell Doesn't Understand That a "Hard Drive For Laptops" Program Doesn't Fly With Support Customers
So, this guy sends his laptop to Dell for repair and Dell sends him back a hard drive...just a hard drive in a box. So what's the problem here? More » -
#powertools
The Weird and Wonderful Space Tools That Fixed Hubble
If you wanted to know what the hell are all those weird space tools that astronauts seem to keep tied in a big ball of junk, you will love these beautiful pictures by Michael Soluri: More » -
#extendedservice
Off-Brand HDTVs May Not Be Such A Bargain After All
With the glut of off-brand HDTVs from Vizio, Insignia, Dynex, and more flooding the market, HDGuru did a little legwork and found the real price of these sets lies in their often inadequate extended service. -
#howto
How To Repair Your Plasma TV With a Baseball Bat (NSFW)
That rumor that Australian toilets flush the other way isn't true, so lets start a new one: In Australia, you can fix things by beating them. See you in my children, new trivia meme! More » -
#apple
The Mighty iPhone, Defeated by Pocket Lint
Time will tell whether or not it's a repeat problem, but one tech editor found his out-of-warranty iPhone home button slowly failing to respond to the point where, rather than pay for repairs, he just bought a new phone. Depressed that he couldn't open the phone himself and still keep it in functional shape, he decided the circumstances (and his nerves) called for an autopsy, along with a monumental retelling of the event. More » -
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#iss
Shuttle to Repair ISS Toilet, Save the Day
It must be a relief for the ISS crew to hear that their malfunctioning toilet will get some urgently-needed repairs next week, now that Discovery will be whizzing a new pump aloft. The dodgy loo has been unable to deal with liquid waste, and repair attempts failed. So NASA has cleared Discovery to fly on Saturday with a 13kg replacement pump, even though it means leaving other stuff behind. "Having a working toilet is a priority for us," said Scott HigginbothamHigginbottom, in charge of shuttle payloads. The Russian-made pump was even give special treatment: it was flown in a diplomatic pouch from Russia. Clearly when spacemen need to go, they need to go... [New Scientist] -
#microsoft
Xbox 360 Bill Gates Edition (1 of 1 Limited Apology Run)
A few weeks back, an unlucky Xbox owner shipped off his customized Bungie autographed console to Microsoft's repair center, and to his horrors they wiped it clean. Bungie resigned a console for him, but now, Microsoft is chiming in with a new console with Bill's signature on it and hundreds of dollars worth of new video games. More »
