Sept. 6, 2015 - Favors

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Jan

Amber's PC is so souped up, it even blends!

Edit: Yes, this is a bridge comic. Back to funnier things next week...

Kangaar Foxfire • 09/06/2015

Fortune smiles on Jessie. Wish I had an I.T. proficient colleague, and one so obliging.

Interstate2011 • 09/06/2015

Seriously, Tor, your sister is not Jan's girlfriend.

to the zebra and bobcat, er, lynx No, I don't think Jessie would want that computer thrown off the roof or otherwise.

OmegaWolf • 09/06/2015

Somehow I've a feeling Jan will be asked for favors everyday.

Lord_Chaos • 09/06/2015

Can I have the old computer. Probably way ahead of the one I have.

Renzo • 09/06/2015

what a weird work mates have Jan and Jess

FrostTIger • 09/06/2015

I'd say giving it to Wolf and let it go from there might be a nice option. could probably get more of a show that way. XD

soriac • 09/06/2015

So, Jan, say good-bye to your programming job and hello to systems administration. You did someone a favor, this is your new job now.

Spazzmatt • 09/06/2015

I've honestly never been a hardware man myself, but, I have a friend I've known before kindergarten. He's way into the hardware. He has even took he time to come up with a shopping list of every computer part I need to build one. Everything he's talking about goes right over my head. But, I managed to stick through his lessons, and he got me a good list.

For $515, I can get enough parts to build a computer that's worth more than $1100, that's already been built. And my friend even included labor to wire the thing together.

Just a neat fact I felt like pointing out to all of you people looking for a new computer. Buy the parts, and give them to a good friend that knows too much about hardware.

SEE! Jessie already has the Idea. (Granted, they're all scrap parts)

Jo Li KMC • 09/06/2015

Tor, you so silly. Why would Jan hit on Jessie when he's got a perfectly adorable and equally "superfloofy" girlfriend already?

Now I, on the other hand... ~w~

Perfesser_Bear • 09/06/2015

I have never, EVER Frankensteined a PC together from spare parts for a user. Nope, not all month (and today's the 6th)...

@Spazzmatt, I built a new computer with $800 worth of parts a couple of months ago. Yeah, a lot of money, but now I have a super-duper server that keeps over fourteen terabytes of storage online while running insanely fast and the processor runs only 5 degrees F over ambient. It's GOOD to be the Geek.

Spazzmatt • 09/06/2015

@Perfesser_Bear, My friend has a name for those type of computers... He calls them "Water-Cooled-Nuclear-Reactors". I kind of agree with him. He loves calling them those when they're overclocked as well.

I've been interested in hardware, It's just too confusing for me.

Perfesser_Bear • 09/06/2015

@Spazzmatt, I considered building 'Brynna' as a water-cooler ( heh ) machine, but the math said I could get away with just using just the fan that came with the processor -- and a lot of fans in the case. She lives in the basement with the dehumidifier, at a dry, more-or-less constant 60F - 70F. Now, if I wanted to put a Buick radiator on the side of the machine with more plumbing than, well, your friend's "Water-Cooled-Nuclear-Reactor" analogy is perfect, I could have stepped up the video processors to 10 and the motherboard came with lots of overclocking pornography -- I mean, information -- I could have built the gaming machine from Heck.

That said, Custard -- I mean Brynna -- is content to serve my backups, literature (from National Geographic to Mad Magazine), hy00ge photo library and download repository needs. Kudos to you and your friend for building custom super machines on a budget and keeping the art alive.

MIke • 09/06/2015

That pic of Jessie in in the second panel is worth Frankensteining a PC or two together. I still wish I had her phone number. It took me a moment after reading the last panel to realize that PLL (Pretty Lynx Lady) and the zebra were looking to destroy the OLD machine and not the one Jan's working on now. Still, funny that Jan wouldn't just use Jessie's old machine as a frame for new parts...

LLVN & LLPT

Mike Bennett • 09/06/2015

Too funny! This strip gets more hillarious every week! Keep up the good work! :D

Swift • 09/06/2015

Frankensteing.. I do that for 10 years at work.. and before that, at University .. but not to jit girsl.. to get stuff working for my professor..

Spazzmatt • 09/06/2015

@Perfesser_Bear, I have heard of someone that took a small radiator meant for Go-carts, and he replaced his side panel of his PC with said radiator. He out fitted it so that he could hook up a garden hose to it, (so that the water would circulate), leading in and out of the house. And he put a large desktop fan next to it to blow air into it.

I can't remember when and where I heard that from, but all I remember was who told me it. It was NOT my hardware friend.

JSStryker • 09/07/2015

How about we sledgehammer it as we toss it off the roof!

Invisan • 09/07/2015

How about someone tosses it in the air and we sledgehammer it off the building? Would be more likely @JSStryker ^^

Vandal • 09/07/2015

I pondered long and hard as to why that zebra is wearing a pale pink shirt. And then it hit me, it matched the colour inside his ears. I wonder if this is his secret for picking up the ladies?

quinn • 09/07/2015

I'd recommend the sledgehammer. as old as that pc is it probably ways a ton! would put a hole in the side of the sidewalk.... or thier boss's car if they missed...

Verp • 09/07/2015

There is a cooling experiment I want to try. Remove all the heat sinks and other cooling devices. Take the electronics and remove all dirt and oil from them. Rinse and submerge all the clean electronics in distilled or deionized water with tubing and water pumps to keep everything cool. Pure, deionized water is actually a very good insulator, so the electronics should be fine. Place the cool side of a refrigeration unit inside the water chamber. Pump all the air out of the chamber until there is only water and water vapor present. Run the refrigeration unit long enough to put the optimum amount of ice in the water chamber and have a float valve adjusted to switch the refrigeration unit off and on to keep that amount of ice present. The water is now at the triple point, so it will boil, removing heat the moment it gets above 0 degrees Centigrade. Water has the highest capacity to remove heat of the commonly available substances, so I imagine you could overclock things to a record high.

Silverwolf • 09/08/2015

I think if Tor is looking for an innuendo, he should go with "swapping firmware."

@Perfesser_Bear: Any advice on upgrading the cooling on a PC with an AMD FX-9590? Ever since my last fan controller fried, I can't get the damn thing to cool adequately. I've currently got an Antec Kuhler H2O 650 in there, and the color indicator is always in the red. Open Hardware Monitor says the board peaks at 74.0 degrees C, and the processor peaks at 52 degrees C at low load. I run AutoCAD, Maya, and Photoshop...so yeah, I'm kinda worried about frying something.

@Verp: sure, it's a good insulator, until it absorbs enough metal ions from the surrounding components over time. May want to gold-plate that stuff.

@Quinn: For the kind of computer the department foisted on the artist? That's too merciful. Give it to Wolf, tell him what they want done, and tell him to be creative.

Verp • 09/09/2015

I ran out of room to mention I would include deionizing resin on the triple point water system to take care of new ions. An engineer friend of mine familiar with the giant water based megavolt capacitor used in fusion experiments thought the resin sorbent would work, as that was what they did, but thought there might be buildup of O2 and H2 from electrolysis. I imagine a catalyst above the liquid water would recombine the two gasses back into water.

ragswox • 09/09/2015

finally I feel like I'm not the only one who expresses myself technologically

Unless Jan doesn't actually do that and Tor just making it up as he goes along. Then I am alone in that boat

Randon • 09/09/2015

If you MUST submerge your computer in something try searching for "Mineral Oil PC" It works but I've heard the oil tends to wick through mouse and keyboard cables!

RagsWox • 09/09/2015

Nods in acknowledgment yup. sounds like my type of sendoff for outdated pc. would use thermite just to be sure [rubs hands maniacally]

Invisan • 09/10/2015

This discussion reminds me of this video ^^ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_m8xZQPdxf8

Spazzmatt • 09/11/2015

Thanks, Invisan, now I'm hungery...

MOM! PRE-HEAT THE PC TO 350 PLEASE!!!

UrsusArctos • 09/12/2015

Does anyone else find it strange that Tor knows exactly who Jessie is talking about when she says she met "Superfloofy"?

Mike • 09/12/2015

@ Verp: You'd need to include some way to swap out the deionization resin, all the plastic and metal components will continue to dissolve potentially ionic compounds into the water for some time, perhaps forever. In theory it sounds like a great idea, but theory has a way of face planting into the ground when it tries to become reality... Still, it would be interesting to see if anyone tries it. Maybe we should send the idea to Mythbusters to see if they'll bust it? On second thought, talk about Frankensteining a computer... o_O

LLNV & LLPT

Golux • 09/13/2015

Is it bad that I actually did sledgehammer a piece of equipment once to make sure it didn't come back from the dead?

And while he did Jessie a great favor, Jan will pay for that act of kindness in the future. Word gets around, a Tech God walks the halls, we must prey on him!

eric bloedow • 09/14/2015

a website i used to visit called "tech support comedy" (which seems to have faded away) had a story about a tech who also liked guns...yes, he used his old computer for target practice!

joebillybob • 10/05/2015

an i.t person said my computer shouldn't even work with the parts that were used to build it.

WB101 • 10/12/2015

So they're calling it 'frankensteined' now? They called it 'Jerry-rigged' back in my day. Hardest part often is finding compatible hardware drivers... assuming that the parts actually work to begin with.

Heh. Last gal I 'impressed' by swapping hardware thought I was trying to steal her data... and couldn't quite understand that no permanent data is actually stored on the CD/DVD player/drive.

I like the Zebra guy's idea... except they should use croquet mallets. There's nothing like the sound of good hardwood smacking against misbehaving/faulty equipment.

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