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black is the new green.. (Score:5, Funny)
Plaid (Score:5, Funny)
Re:black is the new green.. (Score:3, Insightful)
Also, the yellow motherboards have terrible drivers and the brown ones do the same amount of work for a fraction of the cost.
Re:black is the new green.. (Score:3, Funny)
I have a Mood Motherboard (Score:4, Funny)
Green: Needy
Red: Stressed
Black: Depressed
Blue: Crashed
Re:black is the new green.. (Score:4, Informative)
black is my favorite colors.
Re:black is the new green.. (Score:4, Informative)
Try getting white from mixing crayons.
For observers and additive technologies (light sources), white is the presence of all colours.
For substractive technologies (like paints), adding colours to the mix will absorb more wavelength and eventually look black since nearly all light will be absorbed.
So the parent is right as far as pigments are concerned and you are also right as far as observers are concerned.
Re:black is the new green.. (Score:2)
That's if you are referring to light, in which case white is the summation of colours.
When referring to pigments, black is the summation of colours and white is the absence of colour.
So with the wrong assumptions, white=black, gah!!!
OB Hitchhiker's Guide Reference (Score:3, Funny)
Re:black is the new green.. (Score:2, Insightful)
Brown and fluffy (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Brown and fluffy (Score:3, Informative)
BROWN?!? How's that work? What the hell is your dust made of, anyway? All my dust is GRAY. Even the hair in there is gray!
So ok then, a subsidiary question: What color is the DUST inside your computer?
Re:Brown and fluffy (Score:2)
Dude, bacon grease is the new system coolant.
Re: (Score:2)
Dust Color (Score:2)
Most of my dust is grey, but some (esp around the fans and corners where pci slot joins mobo, etc) it's often a little brown.
I've found dust that's old, esp when moist, often turns brown. Ever clean the dust out from under your fridge? It's probably brown.
If you've never seen brown dust in your computer, you probably:
a) don't keep your computer long enough
b) clean it
c) live in a dry environment
d) have a wel
Re:Brown and fluffy (Score:5, Interesting)
I worked for Comcast, testing and repairing cable boxes. Some of these things had been out four and five years. Some of the memorable ones included:
Candles. Several customers had decided to burn candles on top of their cable box. One womans was so full of wax you couldn't see the 3/8 inch high filter caps on the board.
Cat urine.These boxes would smell a little musty until you powered them on and they got warm. The stench from a hot urine soaked box was enough for you to go out for a double cigarette break.
Soda from hell. I'm sure you've seen a PS2 with a 20oz of Dew in it.. Now imagine they dumped a quarter inch of Dew in there and let it boil down. Repeat that a couple times till the sugar is higher than the resistors on the board. These had a tendancy to "run".. They'd warm up, and then the gooey goodness would end up on the test bench.
Roaches. No, not marijuana cigarettes. Cockroaches. They'd lay eggs in the warm cable box, but once hatched the roaches would be unable to escape the vents.
Poppers.These were the ones that would snap, crackle and pop when plugged in. Most of the time, they were missing screws from the former owner deciding he wanted free HBO and was willing to try for it with just a butterknife and a $40 photocopy manual from EBay.
The curve. Folks would put their wide, narrow cable box on a pair of blocks, and then put their 30 year old 50 pound 19-inch RCA TV on it.
There ere a few one-of's too.
Submarine adventures!This cable box had spent some significant time underwater. The paint on the metal case had peeled, and the exposed metal underneath had rusted. You could tell what was silver solder and what was lead by the colors it had turned. The copper connections were green.
Parrot poop. We know it was a parrot because there were parrot biscuit crumbs littering the top of the poop. This one smelled fine until turned on, then.. Well, ever been in a chicken coop? Ever been in a coop that hasn't been shoveled in two weeks? In July? I have, and a chicken coop was preferential to this.
Not brown (Score:2)
Re:Not brown (Score:2)
Re:Not brown (Score:2)
Re:Brown and fluffy (Score:5, Interesting)
(BTW, this was in the 80s and the system was a big powerful 286 system that weighed about 50 pounds)
Well, when we got the chassis cover off, we were all SURE we knew what the problem was. The interior of the chassis was chock full of dust-bunny filler - it was amazing that it ran up to the time if failed with all that thermal insulation inside.
So our service mgr cleaned all the wadded stuff out of the chassis, and it POSTed and we expected it to boot jsut fine since it didn't seem to have fired anything. But no disk boot.
Well, we thought, the HD logic board must have failed under the heat of the chassis, so we pulled the drive out. And low and behold - those of you too young to remember seeing open drive bearings will have to take my word on this - but wound, incredibly tightly around the drive spindle bearing was a vrey fine horsehair that finally got too tight and STOPPED the drive from turning.
Unwound the hair and the whole system booted up fine except for a few unrulely files that didn't take well to the abrupt shutdown. Shows that vet offices can be among the harshest in the world...
Re:Brown and fluffy (Score:5, Interesting)
Heck yes, I remember open drive bearings. I had Fido BBS running on a frankenbox that pretty much HAD to be left on full-time, and not just for the sake of BBS access.
The box was from a clone XT, but I'd shoe-horned a 286 MB into it. Needed tin snips and wrenches to remove several struts to get it to fit. It had a 20 Meg half-height main drive and a 30 Meg hard-card that came from the junk pile of a friend's repair business. The bearings were magnetized, I think. It wouldn't start spinning on it's own; too much static friction. But once you got it going, it stay spinning just fine so long as the power was always on. We'd leave the plastic drive bay cover off of one of the bays, and reach in and give the spindle a little nudge with a finger and it would start right up. You had about a 15 second window to do this during the POST before the system would be looking for the drive. I always joked that I had a hand-cranked computer.
Re:Brown and fluffy (Score:2)
I've got a Biostar MB8500TTD (Socket 7, Baby AT) and a PC Chips (ugh) BKi810 v1.6 (Socket 370, "Baby ATX" (read: proprietary SFF)).
Black... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Black... (Score:5, Funny)
I felt so geeky because I modded it with a window, and put in blue fans, and blue lights, and all the gizmos and such that you first do when your just starting out...
So I have it on my desk, facing my TV, and I'm playing a game and watching TV. Now I have my room jury-rigged so that everything is surround sound(can't get enough speakers!)But back then I made the mistake of running both the PC and my TV into the same input jack on the reciever. It was fine as I usually only played on the computer or watched TV.
But on this fateful day I had decided to do both, and LO and BEHOLD! On the screen of the TV as I glance over I see reflections of my Blue computer! Blue Blue Blue Blue Orange Blue... sounds goo, wait, orange????!?! I leap to my feet to figure out whats wrong and I look in to see my motherboard bursting into flames! Couldn't exactly throw water on an electrical fire(I had already screwed up once..)So I pulled the plug.
My poor computer. The TV had caused Feedback into the motherboard and burst a capacitor. The flames crawled up and were licking at my video card but I got to it in time.
My parents thought it was ok for me to be sad, but they thought the funeral for the Motherboard was a little too much.
I saw that once before... (Score:2)
Tell your dad 'hi' for me...
Re:Black... (Score:3, Funny)
Assumes we all know... (Score:5, Funny)
OK, it's a little outlandish, but it could happen!
Re:Assumes we all know... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Assumes we all know... (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:Assumes we all know... (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:Assumes we all know... (Score:2)
Re:Assumes we all know... (Score:2)
I'm pretty sure that about half of
I didn't build this one. Of course, it's a laptop, and there is the other one that I did build, and the one I gave my parents
You insenitive clod! (Score:3, Interesting)
I am a Jedi, and I happen to have bought my lightsaber, you insensitive clod!
Next Slashdot poll: What colour is your lightsaber?
Re:Assumes we all know... (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:Assumes we all know... (Score:2, Interesting)
Re:Assumes we all know... (Score:2)
Other (Score:4, Informative)
I don't have a colored motherf***ing board. . . (Score:5, Funny)
But, I do have a smokin' hot daughtercard! Keep your filthy hands off her, too!
Who's yo... (Score:2)
Clarify the question please? (Score:2)
What is your motherboard colour?
or
What is your favourite colour for a motherboard?
Re:Clarify the question please? (Score:2)
Re:Clarify the question please? (Score:2)
Re:Clarify the question please? (Score:2)
Re:Clarify the question please? (Score:2)
Both! (Score:3, Funny)
What... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:What... (Score:2)
As an aside Sapphire, which makes ATI graphics cards, showed off some *white* colored prototype ATI motherboards at Computex last week.
My motherboard, from MSI, is colored black, intentionall
Re:What... (Score:2)
Grungy Brown (Score:5, Funny)
Insults! (Score:2)
--LWM
Green (Score:3, Funny)
Another option: Burnt... (Score:2)
Don't buy Blue or Red (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Don't buy Blue or Red (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Don't buy Blue or Red (Score:2)
Re:Don't buy Blue or Red (Score:3, Informative)
A friend of mine once asked if one of the PC's they offered had 'quad LRF's' and was assured that obviously it did, it was a top of the range model etc etc. He then informed the nice man that 'LRF' stood for little rubber feet and left quickl
Glow-in-the-dark (Score:2)
Mine's fairly generic (Score:2)
As for what colour I like in a motherboard, I've always liked Soltek boards because they have lots of purple (like this one [anandtech.com], which looks especially good because purple goes great with black), and purple is awesome.
However, my next system wi
How about closed up inside the case? (Score:2)
I have only looked at it since to add more RAM and change the video card.
I dono.... (Score:4, Funny)
Re:I dono.... (Score:2)
Re:I dono.... (Score:2)
That depends... (Score:2)
Let's see, the scortch marks where the CPU was is black. There are several places (probably where the electrolytic capacitors were) that have an off-green color about them. The exposed parts of the circuit board substrate are tan, as are the parts where the where the silk screen masking melted off. There are also places on the board that are brown/black, probably where the circuit traces burned off.
Mauve, because... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Mauve, because... (Score:2)
Green with orange spots! (Score:2)
Ambient light? I think not... (Score:2)
Explanation (Score:5, Funny)
Green: You probably have a Pentium III or something like that running one of the -ac kernels (to get your obscure SCSI-controller to work). The reason you dont upgrade is because it "works just fine!" and you get several FPS in Emacs LISP, and everything else, say Doom III, has "sloppy programming". You will probably never upgrade your motherboard because everything new is bloated, or unstable, or has evil DRM built in.
Blue: You most certainly have a Gigabyte motherboard because well, blue is their color. These motherboards are onboard everything, pretty much like your Windows XP installation. You don't have spyware or viruses but you regularly run HiJackThis, AdAware, Microsoft Spyware, Spybot, NOD Antivirus, CWSShredder, the GRC port scanner, Windows Update and Kerio Personal Firewall. You also have two BIOSes, for good measure. You have a large collection of porn on your RAIDed IDE-drives, and encrypt them using one of the closed sourced snake oil drive encryption programs.
Aqua: One of the hoses on your watercooling system broke and your P4 3.2@4.7 Ghz "it does SuperPI in 15 seconds!" now runs at 0 Mhz, an impressive downclock nontheless.
Black: As above, but a few minutes later.
Red: You bought this generic MSI motherboard because it was cheap. Now you have frequent crashes, "for whatever reason" that you blame on Microsoft or Satan instead of the faulty VIA chipset. You are thinking of installing Linux instead. Don't, because you will probably destroy your partitions.
Some other color: You dont know, but because you use a Mac you know the color is better than the above anyway.
Re:Explanation (Score:2)
Re:Explanation (Score:2)
Re:Explanation (Score:3, Informative)
red == msi == awesome (Score:4, Interesting)
I know you said it in jest, but I still feel the need to correct- don't be talkin trash about my MSI board
I did quite a bit of research when I first went to buy my motherboard- ended up choosing the KT4 Ultra [msi.com.tw] because it had the stability I wanted with the features I wanted.
I've had this motherboard since 2002. I actually bought two- one for my wife and one for me. Together they've outlasted 3 processors, 3 video cards, an ethernet card and 2 tv tuners.
I cannot recommend them enough.
I also have a friend who bought the same motherboard- he's still using it to this day, just as my wife an I are.
I weep for the day when this motherboard fails or becomes outdated. Fortunately my upgrade path is still looking good- I'm currently using 512 meg of memory and a 2100+ processor- it can go up to 3 gigs and a 2700+ processor.
As for usability, Linux works fine, Neverwinter Nights ran better natively in linux than it did on win2k, and World of Warcraft works great in cedega.
I recently replaced my pny GF ti4200 with a MSI GF 6600gt. drivers are working just find on the new card, no recompiling, no reinstalling, nothing. It just worked.
I remember hearing something about a crappy via chipset, but I assure you, this one is just fine. Even on Via's worst day, they can't compare to the Aladdin chipset on my last board. Now THAT was a nightmare!
Which One? (Score:2)
tan (Score:2)
Which side? Mine's actually a tan on the component side and green on the back. It's an Asus K7M, released as one of the three motherboards that you could actually buy when the Athlon first came out. AMD jumped the gun a little bit and released the Athlon before anyone even had a third-party chipset available for it, so those first three motherboards manufacturers had to buy reference chipsets from AMD just to ship some boards.
It's been very good to me over the years and has run quite stable for a board tha
Re:tan (Score:2)
Missing Option ... 0x4e4852 (Score:2)
Dunno... (Score:3, Funny)
Is butt-ugly a color? (Score:2)
Brown (Score:2)
What about Bakelite? (Score:2)
Platinum Silver (Score:2)
Never seen it (Score:2)
Which color works with OSX x86? (Score:2)
Re:Which color works with OSX x86? (Score:2)
The Obvious Choice (Score:3, Funny)
What color is dust?
Bi-Colored (Score:2)
That was a year and a half ago. It still works. Go ASUS!
Silver / platinum (Score:2)
Someday I'll find my holy grail - appletini neon green with a hot almost neon red.
Red (Score:2)
Reminds me of Pokemon.. (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Which motherboard? (Score:2)
Re:Which motherboard? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Which motherboard? (Score:5, Funny)
According to the
Although OTOH, some of the multicoloured mobo monstrosities I've seen (purple, orange and emerald green.... bleh) are so badly colour-coordinated, they could *never* be described as being remotely gay.
Well, kind of. (Score:2)
Re:Which begs the question... (Score:2)
If we are mixing acrylics, then the answer is brown. If you are mixing something else, then I don't know.
Re:Clear motherboard? (Score:2)
Re:Red (Score:5, Funny)
Indeed it does! And, of course, a non-rectangular case adds another few HP... Er... MHz to any machine.
Then of course I have the cold-air intake for the CPU, a cheap and easy gain of around 5%. And a spoiler on the case fan bigger than the wings on some aircraft.
But the biggest improvement... Decals, decals, decals! They add 1MHz per square inch, you know! A few dozen of those babies and your P4 3.6 will push 3.8, 3.9GHz!
Oh, and don't forget the ground... Er... Interior effects kit. Nothing says speed like an eerie purple glow.
Use care with that 1500W bass tube, though... For some reason, everything on my HDD vanished right after I turned it on...
Re:Purple (Score:5, Funny)
Sir, your computer hurts my eyes. Please remove it from sight.
Re:Purple (Score:2)
Re:Are you my motherboard? (Score:2)
Re:I have a laptop. (Score:2)
You mean you haven't taken it apart yet? :)
smash.