The "Quick Questions that does not Deserve a Thread"...Thread. V3 - Hardware & Software

I just use a drill press on my old hard drives if I don't have the tools on hand to conveniently open them and lift the magnets. Caviar Greens make excellent fridge magnets. I highly recommend them. Then again, I, along with everyone else, has no clue what you actually want.

[QUOTE=Brt5470;37699722]Hello SEKCobra, are you capable of not being a dick all the time?[/QUOTE] Yea I'm the dick if even the second time around he can't scroll up those loads of lines to maybe figure it out.

Maybe reexplain it because I still don't know what your original post meant.

Guys help me with my keyboard. I've gotta make sure the plastic part is ok so any advice would be really helpful thanks.

[QUOTE=Brt5470;37700318]Maybe reexplain it because I still don't know what your original post meant.[/QUOTE] I think he wants to destroy the disks without voiding the warranty to get new ones or something like that. Fraud basically. [editline]17th September 2012[/editline] Okay, so what he wants is a tool to fuck up a disk, but not beyond repair, so his coworkers can train on fixing bad disks.

[QUOTE=Brt5470;37700318]Maybe reexplain it because I still don't know what your original post meant.[/QUOTE] I am trying to get some very old drives to fail (which they should be about to) so I can hand them to some trainees to repair them. So basically I'm hoping for a tool that spreads bytes all over the place and just rapes the disk. Since they are too degraded for our servers and don't have any warranty left I am trying to make training items out of them.

Magnets.

[QUOTE=Zerokateo;37700990]Magnets.[/QUOTE] How would that make it recoverable? Wouldn't that just empty it?

[QUOTE=MTMod;37698407][URL="http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834230408"]This[/URL] or [URL="http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834152347"]this[/URL] or [URL="http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834131270"]this[/URL]. Pick your price. I wouldn't buy an iBuyPower laptop. It would be like buying a car from the mechanic down the street. He insists it's better because he built it himself and put racing stripes on it. I'd rather buy from the people who know what they're doing.[/QUOTE] Wow, thank you! That's exactly what I was looking for.

[QUOTE=mobrockers2;37701030]How would that make it recoverable? Wouldn't that just empty it?[/QUOTE] Magnets usually don't erase all the data just corrupt the fuck out of it, a few good magnets should corrupt it.

Neodymium. Lots of Neodymium.

Wait a minute was I just useful.

[QUOTE=MTMod;37701197]Wait a minute was I just useful.[/QUOTE] Well you are a plank of wood, so I can't see why you aren't useful.

[QUOTE=Chubbs;37701214]Well you are a plank of wood, so I can't see why you aren't useful.[/QUOTE] As a plank of wood I am use to being wrong about most things.

I want to run a python script automatically without the console shows up, how do I go about making a batch script that does all that so i can toss it in the autostart folder

God DAMN IT. I'm having such a fucking hard time finding a decent font viewer program that lets you preview fonts that aren't installed and located in a specific folder. Anyone?

Sorry to sound illiterate, but i can't stop fretting about this small thing. Would rubber gloves substitute a Anti-Static Bracelet? How do i prevent my motherboard from frying other than grounding myself?

[QUOTE=Silverspar;37702954]Sorry to sound illiterate, but i can't stop fretting about this small thing. Would rubber gloves substitute a Anti-Static Bracelet? How do i prevent my motherboard from frying other than grounding myself?[/QUOTE] no go get one and when you get ready to start messing with it all, clip it to a unpainted part of the case. all the band does is basically make it so that your static in your body is the same as the static around the parts so there is no discharge.

you most likely don't need an antistatic watch for building a computer Just touch A metal part on your case/psu and you'll be fine. Just don't be dumb and you won't do anything wrong. And don't forget about your standoffs

If anything rubber gloves may increase the static build up. Just don't build your computer on a carpet with slippers on while shuffling your feet and you will be fine. Stuff is generally relatively tough these days. Don't be stupid, but don't be paranoid either. If you happen to have a chunk of bare wire laying around and are paranoid you can MacGyver something together that serves the same purpose, or you can just grab the case and hold or keep an elbow on it while handling the components. Spending 10 dollars on a bracelet is stupid. Even the repairmen I know certified by companies like dell, lenovo, and apple say they are a waste if you are being even remotely careful.

[QUOTE=Silverspar;37702954]Sorry to sound illiterate, but i can't stop fretting about this small thing. Would rubber gloves substitute a Anti-Static Bracelet? How do i prevent my motherboard from frying other than grounding myself?[/QUOTE] Rubber gloves would do the exact opposite. Just ground your case (plug PSU in with it off.) and ground yourself by touching case or get one of those bands if you're so worried, which you needn't be.

[QUOTE=jordguitar;37703144]no go get one and when you get ready to start messing with it all, clip it to a unpainted part of the case. all the band does is basically make it so that your static in your body is the same as the static around the parts so there is no discharge.[/QUOTE] Yeah seriously just get one, for a fiver it's worth the investment. Not worth risking losing hundreds of pounds of hardware for.

[QUOTE=jordguitar;37701245]I want to run a python script automatically without the console shows up, how do I go about making a batch script that does all that so i can toss it in the autostart folder[/QUOTE] Run them with pythonw.exe (instead of python.exe) I think you can also set the file extension to .pyw but i'm not 100% on that one

[QUOTE=jordguitar;37703144]no go get one and when you get ready to start messing with it all, clip it to a unpainted part of the case. all the band does is basically make it so that your static in your body is the same as the static around the parts so there is no discharge.[/QUOTE] [QUOTE=FlubberNugget;37703282]you most likely don't need an antistatic watch for building a computer Just touch A metal part on your case/psu and you'll be fine. Just don't be dumb and you won't do anything wrong. And don't forget about your standoffs[/QUOTE] Thanks. Sadly, i can't convince my dad that he should use the bracelet instead of rubber gloves.

Tell him that rubber gloves have the potential to build up enormous amounts of static electricity, and that discharging it at low levels is far better than wearing gloves to prevent the dissipation. Alternatively, tell him about this amazing website called Google. He's seriously running the risk of damaging things by wearing rubber gloves. I've seen that happen before.

So, just in the case my motherboard gets fried. Will it just be the motherboard or all of my parts?

PC parts aren't as sensitive to static as you might think I have lifted a stick of DDR2 ram off of a carpet after it lying there for maybe a week or two, and it worked perfectly fine :v: Fuck, most of the time when I do PC work I am wearing a big fuzzy robe.

Impossible to determine. I don't think it will fry to begin with, but it's supremely idiotic either way. [editline]17th September 2012[/editline] [QUOTE=FlubberNugget;37703823]PC parts aren't as sensitive to static as you might think I have lifted a stick of DDR2 ram off of a carpet after it lying there for maybe a week or two, and it worked perfectly fine :v:[/QUOTE] Indeed. In the case I'm referring to the guy wore heavy rubber gloves and boots, and stood on carpeting. Fried 600 dollars in equipment before he realized that something was wrong and stopped handling things. Bit of an extreme case I admit.

Your dad has the wrong idea rubber gloves protect us from strong currents but the static electricity builds up like a fucking capacitor after a while

[QUOTE=Zephyrs;37703791]Tell him that rubber gloves have the potential to build up enormous amounts of static electricity, and that discharging it at low levels is far better than wearing gloves to prevent the dissipation. Alternatively, tell him about this amazing website called Google. He's seriously running the risk of damaging things by wearing rubber gloves. I've seen that happen before.[/QUOTE] Told him what you told me, he said, "Rubber gloves are better because there's a chance you can sweat with an anti-static wristband and fry it anyways." If he does fry it, can we send it back to Newegg or is it done and a waste of money? If it helps he's replaced a graphics card, a power supply and a hard drive with rubber gloves.