There is something about laptops and the family this year. First my cousin's laptop blew up , then I followed suit by stress testing my pride and joy by upsetting a glass of water in a eureka moment on discovering how a particular bit of the compiler worked. Now, its the turn of the sister in the family to go and blow her laptop up. Other than my act of putting the proverbial leg on the axe ( Kulhadi pey pair maarna !), the other 2 were acts of nature , wear and tear and resulting in an explosion of cataclysmic proportions.
Currently the sister's laptop is down and she's busy with writing odes from a netcafe. The first I heard about this was a frantic call at 2:30 in the afternoon - "drop everything find me HP's number in Bombay so that I may contact them". Such tasks were duly completed and then 3-4 hours later one gets a call about how ham-handed one feels with the laptop down etc. It appears as though storm clouds are on you, the world is torn apart and you are crippled without your main course of "facebooking", "tweeting", "blogging" and "orkutting". The entertainment channel of watching dvd's or getting on youtube is out . If you are a techie, the side business of following your community's IRC chat is out. What is it about this dependence on technology and such inane devices that make them a part of you. When things stop working the way you are used to , you feel totally hamstrung as though a part of you has been cut off. One now owns an iphone, a laptop and an ipod and not having any of these would leave one like Lord Emsworth from Blandings worrying about the Empress's eating habits .
These are the occasions for the proverbial cuppa coffee, a snug blanket (definitely a thin one for an Indian Summer) and a good book.
5 comments:
Out of ardent curiosity, can you tell me a few more details of probably two laptops involved in this strange meltdown. I own a HP myself and I did find potential threats (bad thermal flow) and found that the chassis has been scrapped. It has a fan embedded in a metal mold rendering it futile for replacement. This chassis has been in use for a long time.
I have been studying failure theory for fault tolerant systems and this is an interesting case. The laptop's keyboards by design prevent any liquid from seeping in, unless you dipped it in a bath-tub. I guess you must have had an IBM/Lenovo.
Sony (apart from scary batteries) seems to have better cooling and ergonomics. I am guessing all these laptops were in different longitudes while failing. That would create a whole new dimension to the problem.
read this on the day i have reluctantly yet hopefully handed over my precious to the compaq/hp service centre.. asked them a million questions like an overenthusiastic mother prodding a doctor over her child's health or interogating a teacher over her child's lack of good performance in school.... Anyways will know the good/bad news by 4 day... Now a wait like an expectant parent to be :P .... anyways till then netcentre zindabad!
It's pair pe kulhadi marna
Preyas's comment was more fun than the blog ;) Methinks this is so recursive.
Mutually recursive eh ?
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