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mjc
09-10-2008, 12:32 AM
I was surfing around the WineHQ forums, ostensibly looking up info on the latest release...and I stumbled across this...

http://forum.winehq.org/viewtopic.php?t=2228&sid=fc232cc691715eff31300253d61d609f
PrntRhd
09-10-2008, 12:44 AM
Flip the CPU to use the other core?
:D :D
tommy
09-10-2008, 01:28 AM
Flip the CPU to use the other core?
:D :D

Later on he said he was just kidding. But I hope no one tried it in the meantime.
hockey man
09-10-2008, 03:27 PM
Lol, that would have been hysterically sad!
George Hallam
09-10-2008, 04:35 PM
haha
Can you really just flip it? When I built my computer I didn't pay that much attention but I thought the little no pin points prevented you from putting it in any way other then one. I got an AMD athlon 64 x2.

thats class :p
MR. HT
09-10-2008, 08:53 PM
O man. That's epic.
jlreich
09-10-2008, 09:39 PM
That's great! LOL! :D
yawningdog
09-11-2008, 08:52 AM
I love it. It reminds me of some of the crazy junk we used to pull in the Navy. I actually sent a noob to the boatswain's locker once to ask for some relative bearing grease. (I'm not normally mean like that, but he really deserved it.)

Does anyone remember when Intel released an iteration of the celeron which had the core on the opposite side of the substrate? We all called it the "flip chip".

I think I'm going to use this.
client: "Hey Rick, why is my computer running so slow?"
y'dog: "Maybe you're processor cores need to be flipped. When was the last time that was done?"
:D
Whyzman
09-11-2008, 08:10 PM
I actually sent a noob to the boatswain's locker once to ask for some relative bearing grease.So...the noob actually had a relative on the ship who was carrying some grease??
Ajmukon
09-11-2008, 09:06 PM
i got a better one:
my father convinced his aunt that her car's "Fluffer" valve was broken and needed to be fix.

(it fluffeled between good and bad)
MR. HT
09-11-2008, 11:45 PM
My grandad persuaded my dad's cousin to pee on an electric fence...
Whyzman
09-12-2008, 05:15 AM
My grandad persuaded my dad's cousin to pee on an electric fence...And the results were quite shocking... :rolleyes:
Sylvander
09-12-2008, 06:11 AM
I wonder why someone would be called a boat-swain [a boat-swine cobber!]

I believe swain & swine are variations of the same word.

My Etymology says:
SWAIN:
A young man attending a knight.
A man of low degree.
A male servant.
A man, youth, farmhand, shepherd, rustic, lover.

Old Norse:
Sveinn = boy, servant, attendant.

Old English:
Swineherd. [shortened to Swine and pronounced swain? (rather posh, what?)]

This ain't posh:
The rine in spine falls minely on the pline. ;)

Posh is:
The rain in Spain falls mainly on the plain.