The Funniest Places for Hardware Stickers?

Nice2Cats asks: "So after buying another piece of computer hardware, I am stuck with more of those stickers that some silly person in marketing actually thinks I'm going to slap on my computer. The problem is, I'm running out of other places to put then (throwing them away would show a lack of creativity, and is out of the question). I already have one on my drill ('Sound by Hercules') and my table saw is 'Dual BIOS'; I also probably have the world's only vacuum sweeper and lawn mower that claim to be made by Apple. I don't want the stuff on my car, my wife draws the line at our toilet cover -- where have other Slashdot readers put these stickers? Where is the most awesome place you have seen, say, that white Apple?"

Boring: Refrigerator.

[millia]

However, our fridge at work has over 300 processors on it now...

Re:Boring: Refrigerator.

[tha_mink]

By far, the best I've seen is the ATM. "Graphics by ATI"

Re:Boring: Refrigerator.

[cmarks03]

I think my mini-fridge was the only one in my dorm that was powered by an Intel Pentium 4 Processor, and sported a 5"x4" sticker to that effect. My brother's VCR is running on a Gigabyte motherboard, my friend's TV has an Athlon 64 inside, my old CRT is powered by Intel Centrino Mobile Technology, and, believe it or not, my guitar case has a Dual BIOS and PCI-Express. Though a sticker will never touch my Xaser III, I'll put at least a CPU sticker on a cheap case (Sempron sticker on a $20 case for my examp

Re:Boring: Refrigerator.

[corrosive_nf]

A sticker can't make a Xaser III any uglier, so go for it.

Re:Boring: Refrigerator.

[Baikala]

But a windowless black Tsunami Dream [thermaltake.com] is another story. No Stikers for me Mr.

Nalgene bottles

[the real chahn]

I put my Apple sticker on my Nalgene water bottle. It's pretty darned close to the same shade of white as the volume measurements on the side, so it blends in perfectly.

Sticker spots

[Matilda the Hun]

Personally, I like the back of my laptop. Mine informs people that "Opening this product will void the warranty" and "Run CD First before connecting cables".

Trash Cans; shredding machines

[eludom]

I'm fond of putting "Designed for Microsoft Windows"
stickers on trash cans and shredding machines.

Re:Trash Cans; shredding machines

[lbmouse]

That's also a good place for "Intel Inside".

The toilets at work all have the Intel stickers on the bowl. Apparently the janitorial crew either has a good sense of humor or no clue.

Re:Trash Cans; shredding machines

[Draigon]

My guitar has a "Powered by SoundBlaster"

Re:Trash Cans; shredding machines

[Parsec]

yep, trash can is where I put my DfMW stickers

Re:Trash Cans; shredding machines

[Frumious Wombat]

Back when you could still run DOS, my boss got a bumper sticker with "I (heart) DOS" on it with a new machine. He promptly stuck it to the side of our VAX/VMS system.

Re:Trash Cans; shredding machines

[Myself]

I saw a shredder yesterday decorated with a homemade "[Enron logo] Document Storage Facility [Enron logo]" sticker.

My WinCE-based portable is "designed for Windows 95 and NT 4.0", and that sheet of "tritium contaminated" stickers I picked up at Hamvention has been handy for decorating all sorts of things. My laptop is a chiquita banana.

Rice up your PDA

[venomkid]

My old philips Nino was a rare, custom made Pentium III model. Yup, the sticker made it faster.

toilet flusher

[PerlDudeXL]

while visiting a friend I noticed a 'Designed for Windows XP' sticker at the
toilet flusher button. I couldn't think of a better place :)

Re:toilet flusher

[booch]

Makes sense. Toilets and Windows are both measured in GPFs. For Windows, that's General Protection Faults (AKA blue screens of death, AKA BSOD, AKA crashes). For toilets (in the USA, at least) GPF is the rating of how much water it uses - Gallons Per Flush. I've seen many urinals with the GPF rating printed on it.

Guitar Hero!

[Grayden]

I'm actually trying to collect random computer stickers for my Guitar Hero [redoctane.com] controller. The game box comes with a sheet of stickers that you can use to decorate the guitar controller, but they're fairly boring and generic. I want one that stands out a bit more.

Windows powered Toilet

[mapnjd]

Some wag put this sticker on here [flickr.com] at work. It's genuine (and not just placed there for this slashdot story) but I only finally took tyhe picture when this subject came up. Enjoy!

Trash Can ... Designed for Microsoft Windows 98

[redelm]

... too obvious for words! Only I think I need to get a proper HazMat receptical to hold something _that_ toxic!

Urinals, public toilets, and ricers

[wowbagger]

Many of the "Intel Inside", "Designed for Microsoft Windows", and such stickers are great for putting on urinals and public toilets.

Or, slap them on the back or sides of a ricercar when nobody is looking - obviously an "Intel Inside" sticker must be good for another 20HP.

(OT: did you know that /. strips the &tm; entity?)

Re:Urinals, public toilets, and ricers

[Marnhinn]

I visted a Holiday Gas Station in the middle of Minnesota (about a year ago) and while using the restroom, being astonished to see a poster with all the java classes / packages on the inside door of the restroom.

What was funnier, was that someone had updated it by drawing in a couple of new additions and other made-up classes (javax.swing.phonesex). I remember thinking - WTF? Who thinks about java while taking a dump... talk about an extreme programmer.

Re:Urinals, public toilets, and ricers

[Ratso Baggins]

I think the technical term for that is "Motion Aid". Just thinking about Java does it for me.... ooop excuse me, I'll be back in 10.....

Re:Urinals, public toilets, and ricers

[JabberWokky]

Yeah... I generally think about data structures, how to structure some minor utility I'm working on, maybe some sort of...

DAMMIT! Why the hell did she take the last roll of TP from my bathroom? She knows that I use this bathroom during the day so I don't have to leave the office part of the house... now I have to get downstairs for another roll. Ick.

So, yeah. I do lots of thinking, but very little problem solving while sitting.

--
Evan

Re:Ricercar?

[Bastian]

Why would you want to stick an Intel Inside sticker on a piece of music? [ricercar.com] I don't get it.

Old School

[bofus]

From back in the day, when I was working IT Support in a chemical plant,
I have an "official" IBM 80386 Memory Expansion hard hat.

My current laptop is a dual function unit. Not only is it Thinkpad,
it's also a 10000-watt UPS, specifically an APC Smart-UPS 10000.

Rack Enclosure Warning Sticker

[TripMaster Monkey]

I've put the warming sticker from our rack enclosure on the entrance to my cube, informing visitors in 13 different languages that "enclosure may become unstable if more than one component is extended at one time".

Just trying to warn lUsers that visiting my cube carries a 'Risk of Personal Injury'. ^_^

Re:Rack Enclosure Warning Sticker

[bob_jordan]

I prefer using warning stickers. I had a "Warning: This machine is alarmed" on the side of my monitor for a long time and around the year 2000, I had a "Year 2000 safe" on the plant pot. I assumed the plant was the one thing that probably was.

Bob.

Re:Rack Enclosure Warning Sticker

[McCarrum]

When installing a brand spanking new SAN, I put the big "The Solution to your Storage Issues" sticker, big orange thing, on one of the toilet doors.

Cognitive dissonance, baby!

[saintp]

I put a white Apple logo on the side of my PC, just for the fun of seeing people's heads asplode.

Re:Cognitive dissonance, baby!

[Captain Splendid]

To really seal the deal, see if you can VNC in full screen mode to a Mac, then let people come over and play with it!

Re:Cognitive dissonance, baby!

[An Onerous Coward]

I got an Apple sticker with a recent iPod acquisition, and I'm trying to decide if I should slap it on the back of an old Toshiba laptop.

Re:Cognitive dissonance, baby!

[Frambooz]

I slapped the big Apple sticker on top of the Dell logo on the cover of my Dell M70 laptop :) I've had a number of people ask what kind of Mac I have. When they realise it's a fake, both the Windows and Mac zealots think I'm crazy for putting the sticker there.

Re:Cognitive dissonance, baby!

[Matt the Hat]

There are Windows zealots?

Re:Cognitive dissonance, baby!

[Baikala]

No, seriusly, are they?

that's nothin'! :)

[Xtifr]

I put mine (actually, it was given to me) on the front of my SPARCstation, covering the Sun logo, but not the word "Sun".

(Of course, my SS is actually running Linux, but that's another story. If I owned a Mac, it would be running Linux too.) :)

Re:Cognitive dissonance, baby!

[ggvaidya]

You think *that*'s brain asplotionating? A couple of weeks ago I saw a guy a coupla rows down from me in the lecture theatre on campus.

He was running an large, klunky looking laptop running Windows XP - you could tell at a glance, because of the sparkly blue window tops and the programs he was running.

He had one of those "make my Windows look like MacOSX" things installed, so he had a perfectly authentic-looking genie bar at the bottom of the screen (although the top menu bar and shiny polished silver finis

AMD on G5

[slashflood]

I put one of the AMD stickers that came with a boxed AMD processor on a co-workers (QA) Apple G5 machine. It looked pretty native and later as Steve Jobs announced the move to the Intel based Macs, my co-workers told me that my prophecy was utterly wrong. :-(

Re:AMD on G5

[AndroidCat]

I haven't done anything with my AMD Athlon XP sticker yet. There's a black/green rectangle at the bottom. Does it change colour depending on the temperature? (Like those '70s fishtank thermometer strips.) I doubt I'd stick it processor--taking the cover off, sticking my head under the desk with a flashlight just to check the heat seems awkward.

Re:AMD on G5

[slashflood]

I haven't done anything with my AMD Athlon XP sticker yet. There's a black/green rectangle at the bottom. Does it change colour depending on the temperature?

Good question. I don't know. Somebody should just try it. I was googling for it, but it seems that the sticker doesn't change its color. But there are GeIL RAM modules with attached color-changing stickers [pcstats.com] on it.

I've "Intel Inside"

[grnbrg]

On my kettle. It boils *real* quick! :)

grnbrg.

Tsk tsk...

[fcolari]

Don't you know a benchmarked kettle never gives output?

Re:Tsk tsk...

[buck_wild]

If it comes to a boil slower than the 'AMD' model kettle, it's only because of old drivers.

Notoriously...

[SharpFang]

Designed for Windows sticker on the trashcan, that's a regular. I do it whenever I see one. But a warning label about risk of irritation and all kinds of such warnings on the Windows CD (label taken from a pepper spray can), Intel Inside Pentium III on my pocket calculator, and neat "barbed wire" sticker on the firewall are some of nicer applications.

Re:Notoriously...

[Down8]

I am so slow... my Casio only has a PentiumII inside.

-bZj

Re: your sig

[SharpFang]

thx. corrected.

zerg

[Lord Omlette]

This sounds like a Fark or SA photoshop thread. Too bad /. doesn't allow pics...

Too bad!?

[mindaktiviti]

You should browse at -1 sometime, you'll be thankful we don't have images on slashdot.

Suggestion

[Glog]

Place the "Intel Inside(R)" sticker on your inflatable doll's bottom parts.

Re:Suggestion

[X0563511]

I want to see someone stick an "Intel Inside" logo on the gate to an embassy.

To the right of my right knee, right now...

[Otter]

I stick them all underneath my desk, on the side of the drawer block. It fills up after a while, but then they move me to a new office around the same time, so it all works out.

Stapler

[pahoran]

I have a "Designed for Windows 2000" sticker on my stapler.

Redundant Heat

[timdorr]

I slapped the "Dual Bios" sticker from one of my older motherboards on the side of our thermostat. Just in case one of the BIOSes breaks down or something...

My toilets

[HawkingMattress]

Runs on intel inside, and have a geforce5FX sticker for better water flush effects.

The White Apple?

[chivo243]

on the back of my black office chair on wheels... or is that my co-worker? Back in the late 60's my uncle had every automotive sticker, from STP to Hooker Headers on his bicycle, I thought it was damn cool, but I was 4 then.... everything he did was cool!

PIX

[c]

Some bonehead ordered us to replace our Linux-based firewalls with Cisco PIX systems because "we're not supposed to use PC's as firewalls".

Oddly enough, the PIX (which, near as we can tell, is basically a PIII system running off of a flash drive) is one of the very few Pentium-based boxes I've ever seen which doesn't ship with a Intel Inside sticker. Now corrected.

c.

Re:PIX

[Kalzus]

Gotta love the replacement 3Com or Intel cards which are the exact same 100mbps ethernet cards as others with different firmware and a $450 dollar price tag :)

Hard Drive Stickers

[nuintari]

Dell sent me a big book of hard drive stickers, they say things like "100 GB 7200 Ultra 320" I guess they are supposed to go on those removeable hard drive enclosures in all thepoweredge 2850's we have. But, they didn't send us any stickers in the sizes of drives we actually have.

So, now all the office phones have "36GB 10K Ultra 320 SCSI" drives in them, and most of the monitors sport sexy 300 gig drives. :-)

Re:Hard Drive Stickers

[ErikRed1488]

My Nextel i530 has the Dell 300GB 10K Ultra320 SCSI sticker on it. The sticker matches the NEXTEL sticker perfectly. It looks like the damn thing was made for my phone.

I really wanted to put a 15K sticker on my phone, but they largest size 15K sticker they had was 146GB. I figured 146GB just wouldn't cut it for my phone.

Bin

[tsa]

In the bin, not on it.

Reversal

[AndroidCat]

I have a coin-op arcade 25 cents, push to reject sticker on my PC.

Pentium Inside

[Keebler71]

Hmmm... one of the guys in my squadron put a "Intel Pentium III Inside" sticker on the back of my flight helmet. I had "outed" myself as a nerd long before so I left it... it's still there.

Novell Idea...

[TreeHead]

;if i were a NLD user, i might enjoy subverting the 'designed for windows' decal with novell's version [novell.com].

;treehead

Eclipse powered by Intel

[SlayerDave]

I attached a Pentium 90 MHz chip to the dashboard of my old Mitsubishi Eclipse. It failed to produce noticable performance benefits, though.

It's all trash anyway

[CAPSLOCK2000]

The win98 "Where do you want to go today?" I was forced to buy with my laptop is still firmly attached to my trashbin. It has outlived the software that came with it for over 5 years, and is still holding on tight.

Stickers

[queenb**ch]

I've been known to randomly place stickes on co-workers' cars. It's one of the more common office pranks here. One of our tech support technican's pick up says "Intel Pentium III", which is very funny considering that the thing barely runs. He's really good at fixing computers...not so good with his truck. Our administrative assistant's car says "Cable managment by Panduit" and "NOC'd out by Extreme Networks".

We've also been known to make stickers...like the one that mysteriously ended up on our boss'

I have asthma...

[Neurotoxic666]

...and my inhaler is powered by a Pentium 4, according to the sticker :)

toolbox(es)

[j-turkey]

All of my stickers go onto toolboxes. They're non obtrusive, and they look OK there.

Best I ever saw

[zogger]

...was at a concert back in the 60s, saw a shapely lass walking around with two STP stickers on instead of a normal top.

%^)

Although I am not sure if this is classed as hardware or software....

Re:Best I ever saw

[Kelson]

saw a shapely lass walking around with two STP stickers on instead of a normal top... Although I am not sure if this is classed as hardware or software....

Going by cyberpunk terminology, humans are usually classified as wetware... but somehow that just sounds wrong in this context. (Nudge, nudge, wink wink, say no more!)

It's both.

[Zalminen]

It's software causing hardware...

Going Mach 1 straight up

[DynaSoar]

I put an old rainbow Apple sticker and and equally old Elephant Memory Systems sticker on one of my high power rockets, and sent them past Mach 1. The (vinyl) Apple sticker came back on the rocket. The (paper) EMS sticker is still up there for all I know.

Laptops

[sootman]

My friend had an ancient Compaq laptop (like the kind we used to sell at a place I used to work, so it was very recognizable and just screams OLD!!! to me) and I'd always do a double-take at the "Designed for Windows XP" sticker he put on it. ("Wait... Compaq is making laptops with trackballs again? Oh, right...") So a few months ago I pulled a "Pentium 4 HT" sticker off a machine at work (it was kinda coming off anyway) and stuck it neatly on my G3 iBook's wrist rest.

First it was just a joke, but now that

Where can I get an Intel Inside sticker...

[dpbsmith]

...to put on my spiffy new Apple Developer's Transition Kit?

Preferably one that will be hard to remove when Apple receives it back at the end of 2006?

Helmet

[phmilo]

I used to have a "No User Serviceable Components Inside" sticker on my motorcycle helmet.

Intel Centrino Inside ... a server?

[Strike]

I took the Centrino sticker off my laptop and put it on one of our older servers here. The "Designed for Microsoft Windows XP" sticker went on the can of compressed air.

AMD inside!

[Chayak]

I put my AMD sticker that came with my X2 processor on my girlfriend's *cough* "toy"

Re:AMD inside!

[rebill]

Isn't that just ASKING for paper cuts???

My turntable....

[aethera]

My 1960s era turntable has a carefully placed Intel Inside sticker on the front face. It does turn a few heads, but only the really observant ones. I think most of us just instinctively tune those things out.

Apple stickers belong...

[Roadkills-R-Us]

... on fruit.

Put them on bananas and apples at the grocery store.

Xeon sticker

[mobby_6kl]

I have an Intel Xeon sticker on my PIII 700 laptop. That's it. I lost all the Asus, ATI, and Intel stickers I got while building my last computer.

iSuck

[TibbonZero]

Would that be an Apple iSuck vacuum you have there?

On a $1M Tandem....

[Anonymous Coward]

My former employer DC'ed some Tandem (Now HP Non-stop) servers, called Himalaya K1000's.

VERY expensive machines when new. Nice black roll around case about 5 feet high, 2 wide, with a swing open front door. I took it home, gutted out all the internals, and now it contains not only my PC internals, but also an HP/UX 133MHZ system, and a beer cooler in the bottom.

And a nice Intel Inside sticker!

Here is the pic!

http://h50146.www5.hp.com/products/servers/nonstop /casestudy/nttdata/images/08.gif [hp.com]

AC

iBong

[Doctor O]

I have an iBong, and I must say that I *do* think different when I use it.

Toilet stall #1 at work

[Associate]

sports Centrino and my laptop has a Mt Olive Pickle processor.

My Toilets

[aminorex]

All of the toilets in my house read "Designed for Windows XP".

Government Property:

[mindstorms]

I took my computer's on an airplane once, and the box was checked by the TSA. They stuck a nice holographic sticker on the box, but I relocated it onto the case. Now my computer has a "Inspected by the Transportation Security Agency" sticker on it. It really makes great conversations.. Oh, and I stick Pentium 4 stickers on floppy disks. They overheat, are slow, inefficient,and are overpriced, so it fits. :) (I hope this is not moderated by an Intel fan..)

Lab Computers

[miyako]

This won't really work if your not in school, but a couple of my friends got ahold of a couple of "Intel Inside P4" and "Made for Windows XP" stickers and stuck them to some of the most ancient computers in the labs. They also took the "Pentium II" and "Made for Windows 98" stickers off the old machines and put them on some of the faster machines. Worked fairly well to keep a lot of the clueless off some of the better computers.

Re:Lab Computers

[epine]

Way long ago my PC reservation strategy in the overcrowded IBM PC lab was to swap the keyboard cables for two machines facing each other back to back. The keyboard lights would still work normally, but you couldn't see any text coming up on the screen you were facing (DOS era) so most people thought the machine was mysteriously non-functional and left it alone.

stupid stickers

[epine]

I've got an "Intel inside Pentium !!!" sticker over top of the irritatingly bright blue Logitech logo on the top of my giant Logitech mouse (the one that comes closest to fitting my hand). Can still see a bit of the blue glow from behind the word "Intel".

Not computer hardware per se...

[mh101]

Before I moved and lost it, I had a "450 watts of crushing power" sticker that was on my blender, that I stuck on the fridge. Perhaps it would have been funnier on my brother's truck.. =)

At Work

[LightForce3]

The office microwave has an Apple sticker on the door. I suppose that would make in an iNuke.

Not a company sticker but....

[pyrote]

I have for years now carried a few stickers printed on a laser printer with address labels...

ATTENTION: ToiletCam is for research purposes only.

I stick them on the back side of toilet stalls or in spots one would only find after a while of.... uh sitting.

A millitary one

[sigxcpu]

I spent two weeks with it on untill someoen noticed and had me remove it
on my M-16
from an old HP DLT drive (in a nice military style khaki)
"operate lever only when the operate light is on"

Bass

[the_rev_matt]

I have a black bass guitar that sports a single white apple sticker right below the neck joint. Nice contrast.

CD Player Warnings

[Monkelectric]

Once I opened up a CD player and it had a sticker which said, "If you can read this, you are being exposed to low level radiation."

I'd imagne you could have some fun with that if you could find/make one.

Bullet holes

[TheHawke]

I put a three of those neat stickers on my Latitude CP. Rather fitting too for it's on it's 3rd hard drive..

I put them...

[TheRealMindChild]

I put them on my computers. I have a couple that are completely covered

Re:good hell

[dow]

I was just thinking how nice it was that I'd read nearly all the comments for an ask-slashdot, and there hadn't been a single post that was offtopic. Everyone had stuck to the question. And it was nice to have a less serious question for once, as a change to the "Save me 5 big ones on a consultant" ones we usually get.

Not that there is anything wrong with those questions, it just makes it interesting to see what people get up to in their spare time. Glad to see more off this type of question recently.

You do

Re:got pets?

[k4_pacific]

Actually, my fish tank has a "In case of emergency break glass" sticker off a fire alarm.

Re:Magic 8-Ball

[plover]

Someone had a /. sig a while ago that read something like this:

"Outlook not so good". Gee, that Magic 8 ball sure is smart; I'll ask it about Exchange server next.