

15 + 45 points
Make It Work by a actinism torrents joins
May 17th, 2008 11:30 AM
A couple of weeks ago I bought a Netgear DG834N router,it worked fine for a bit and it had n capability stuff which sounded good.It stopped working recently and I was dissapointed by this.I tried to take it back but they said to contact Netgear which would of taken months to get sorted so I tried to fix it myself.
I understand a fair amount about electricity gizmos but not much about transistors capacitor whatevers,so I tried a not so pragmatic, spiritual approach to get it to work again.I gathered up various electrical devices around my house and held a seance to bring it back to life

this went on for 24 hours , my devices tried to connect to it GUI IP style sending it message of love and support
more mundane household utilities saw what was going on and get involved too
maybe it was all too much so i let my router get some rest and recouperate

Time to wake it up and make a determined effort to get it to work,I thought maybe shock therapy and some brute force would scare it into working


i tried plugging it in to see if my technical know how had done the job,i did this by my sink with lots of water around to make it more exciting
Result :

I kinda failed my task.
Ooops

I understand a fair amount about electricity gizmos but not much about transistors capacitor whatevers,so I tried a not so pragmatic, spiritual approach to get it to work again.I gathered up various electrical devices around my house and held a seance to bring it back to life


this went on for 24 hours , my devices tried to connect to it GUI IP style sending it message of love and support
more mundane household utilities saw what was going on and get involved too

maybe it was all too much so i let my router get some rest and recouperate

Time to wake it up and make a determined effort to get it to work,I thought maybe shock therapy and some brute force would scare it into working


i tried plugging it in to see if my technical know how had done the job,i did this by my sink with lots of water around to make it more exciting

Result :

I kinda failed my task.
Ooops
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teucer
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teh Lolbrarian
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Adam
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help im a bear
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Evil Sugar
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Tøm
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zer0gee
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JK Bobbins
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posted by Tøm on May 17th, 2008 12:38 PM
I'm torn between wanting to vote for the attempts, and not voting for not working...
It's the SFØ problem, what comes first: Completing the task well or the enjoyment of the community?
Is failing a task awesomely > completing a task badly?
I'm voting for it, I like it.
posted by Evil Sugar on May 17th, 2008 1:07 PM
It may depend partly on how many points a task is worth...for a 250 point task, the task had better be completed....for 15 points, awesome failure might be okay.
posted by teh Lolbrarian on May 18th, 2008 10:22 AM
Vote for hilarious (albeit unsuccessful) tries at making it work.
posted by Adam on May 19th, 2008 1:28 PM
A computer seance and a purple hob.
Vote. And in a way it kind of worked if you wanted a router-shaped coaster.
Technically, it did not work, but the seance was a great idea, so you've got my vote.