My first notebook was a Dell Inspiron 8200 and it’s already 5 years old. It suffered through the IT storm for so many years and up till today, it is still alive and kicking (except the battery; it died officially last year).
The most significant change was the Operating System (OS) as I’ve been using it [...]

Some random stuff I found in some forums:
 I don’t know about you guys, but I play my games with a scanner all the time! I write “shoot” on a piece of paper, scan it, and in Counter Strike Source it’s like “BOOM HEADSHOT!!1!!111!”

My colleague was building a PC for another colleague of mine. When he’s done assembling and installed the drivers, he told me to shove in my personal thumb drive to test if the USB front ports are working.
That fried my thumb drive, extra crispy.
Apparently my colleague accidentally plugged the USB front ports to a firewire connector [...]

Stumbled this when I went to try out this new restaurant in Glen Waverly.