I love stuff like this because the time it took him to fix it was probably worth more than the cost of the motherboard BUT the fact that he pulled it off is what makes him so valuable (and cool ^_^ ) and he learned a lot while doing it. Simply awesome.
Yes. However, this guy is also the general secretariat of information systems of the greek government, and oversees the online tax reporting system, which has been having extended outages in the past months. I 'd rather he fixed that instead.