0251: "CD Tray Fight"

[Wanger]

ah that's cool cheers, i assumed it was just a pretty generic sci-fi reference at first, just didn't want to risk missing the point =)

[GreatPokerHands]

Take back control!

Exert your authority over the drive. Right click over the drive and select "Eject". Open it by commanding it. Do not fear it. Do not even touch it.

[Fernanthonies]

the alt text is what makes this one

[Castaway]

Okay, so I saw this and kind of laughed it off this morning. Then at school I was using an EMac for the first time, trying to burn a DVD. So I clicked "Burn DVD" and the drive opened, so I placed my DVD in, but the damned thing would not closed. I looked for a button, i pressed gently, i looked for a button again, nothing. Then I remembered today's comic and started freaking out. Finally though, I manned up and shut that bitch.

[Ended]

Damn right! *slaps laptop*.

This reminded me of a period of about a month when my laptop DVD drive refused to work. It didn't even show up on the system. Then, out of nowhere, it started working again. The sly treachery of the machines, it knows no bounds...

[Hedos]

Sorry. I think that was more a lack of knowledge of protocol thing than a rush to be first thing, but I'll keep it in mind for the future.

And I don't particularly think it matters enough for anyone to have brought it up, there should be no need to apologize, nor for a protocol on such a thing, nor to be condescending. Discussion will follow whether or not the first person says anything, and honestly, I just use the first post to refer back to the comic anyway.

There was no condescending attitude. Hermaj is right. This is not a protocol, it's just common sense. If you don't have any comment to pass, your post is not interesting, so let somebody who has an opinion create a topic.

[Belial]

And I don't particularly think it matters enough for anyone to have brought it up

One...and now two...moderators disagree with you. Consider your opinion noted and overruled.

[SoNick]

Am I the only one here who this doesn't apply to?

Perhaps it's the fact that I've taken apart and put back together (almost!) every computer that I've owned at one time or another, but whenever I see something acting up like this I blame it on "lame drive manufacturers" or "a badly-programmed OS."





Although the tale of my laptop's battery is one that makes me wonder...
It refused to hold any charge in all tests that I performed. I was a few steps away from returning it for a replacement (7-day replacement policies are horrible. They allow you little to no time to find out the true problems of the machine, if any). After all, the built-in wireless card failed to work even after installing the latest drivers.

So I took the laptop out to my college with me to a meeting and left it plugged in in the classroom. When the meeting ended, I wanted to get out of there fast. Assuming that I was just going to send the laptop in for repairs anyways, I merely removed the power cord instead of properly shutting down Windows. The laptop...stayed on. I cancelled the shutdown prompt that I had brought up before pulling the cord, and saw that the machine had ~45 minutes of battery life remaining.

The cause is likely that the surge protector in my room somehow doesn't provide enough power to charge the battery (...even if it is enough to keep the machine running as long as its plugged in) somehow.

Failing that, it's rebelling against me and needs a good couple of smacks to teach it a lesson.

[Pathway]

office space

PC Load Letter? What the fuck does that even mean?!

[phlip]

My laptop had one of those "push a button and it opens a little, pull it the rest of the way" CD drives for a while. Then ... something happened ... (I tripped over the power cord and the laptop fell of the table) and the latch broke... so it wouldn't close. The drive still worked if you put a CD in it and held it shut, but if you let go it'd open again.

After a day or so the spring broke too, so the CD would stay in and it worked as normal, except if you tried to eject it, it'd just click a couple of times and then load the CD again... you had to physically grab the tray with your fingernails and pull it out. Eventually I made a little tab out of sticky tape, so I'd have something to grab onto.

Surprisingly, even after all of this, it still reads CDs fine, several years later.

[The Ivy]

Good comic. I really think machines can smell fear.

[bigglesworth]

Anyone else had the thing where the cd tray will attempt to stauy out, no matter how many times you press the button to close it. It closes and then comes back out. You have to physically hold it down for several minutes as it struggles.

[LE4dGOLEM]

If you hold most cd trays in place, they'll struggle, trying to find out wether in or out works. ewventually, they give up and just hang there.

MY HOBBY: Leaving cd trays half open.

[peace]

my cdrom tray doesnt work so i just use my cd burner

[RAPTORATTACK!!!]

I'm watching terminator 3 right now...

[hack124x768]

We have a few old 4x cdroms running around. Man, those things had TRAY POWER! It took em about 3 seconds to pull the tray in, and that wasn't a weak motor, that was low-gear torque! Nearly lopped my finger off in one of those.

[You, sir, name?]

We have a few old 4x cdroms running around. Man, those things had TRAY POWER! It took em about 3 seconds to pull the tray in, and that wasn't a weak motor, that was low-gear torque! Nearly lopped my finger off in one of those.

Oh yes, the good old slow-motion giloutine, I think I remember snapping a pencil in half with one of those things. (And it kept working)

[Kin]

Good lord, I need a few of those. The possibilities are endless...

[Messiah]

We have a few old 4x cdroms running around. Man, those things had TRAY POWER! It took em about 3 seconds to pull the tray in, and that wasn't a weak motor, that was low-gear torque! Nearly lopped my finger off in one of those.

Loss of fingers = Machines 1 - Humans 0
Loss of fingers, causing inability to use keyboard or mouse, allowing their plans to go on without someone hitting the "stop" button = 6,000,000 - 0


Not too bad an edit I think, considering I did it at work, with MSPaint