so, in my house we have three computers, mine, the univac of the house, my sister's a laptop with a beterylife all of five picoseconds, and the downstairs computer, a compaq cheap pos that serves primaraly as an internet portal for my mom. the downstairs computer is the focus of this story.
we got the cheapest barest system we could get, this means no monitor, but no problem we got one the same way we got the laptop, mom 'needing it' for work, well actualy it came with the laptop, but anyway, it's some sort of odd sony LCD thing with a powered box between the VGA outlet and the actual monitor, and the biitch of the situation is this propriatary non-standart cable between this majical box and the monitor, that and the giant mut dog my aunt found and made us take care of for a week untill a home could be found, it was a realy nice dog, very frendly loved to be around people, to the point that when she wasn't she turned into a relentless engine of destruction, tearing down window blinds, ripping up the carpet, and yes you guessed it, chewing threw the mouse keyboard and unreplaceable monitor cable, well... shit.. mom takes it back to work, they can't figure it out, I finaly get her to bring it back so I can try to mend it, and here is were I can tell sony is the anti-christ, I split the cewed up end of one of the halves of the cable, and I am greeted with 17 godamned _all blue_ wires no only do I have 17 tiny wires to solder back together but I have to rig up a circut tester out of a batery pack, a forcept, an LED, and a dental pick, and one by one clamp on to a wire, touch each pin on the conector, lable the wire with a lable (that I had to print out and cut a part and tape with a loop of scotch individualy) tape it, for each of the 26 pins (13 on each side) on the conector, and then I'v got to do the same thing to the other side!
godamn!
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