Carrying the computer back across the front door threshold, an ominous blue screen replaces the desktop.
Posted on 05/16/2009 12:29:26 PM PDT by xjcsa
Edited on 05/16/2009 12:41:19 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
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I just want to take this moment to say: NOT MY FAULT.
Once we let them get by with doing away w/plain old on/off buttons, and that 50-cent 1963 mandatory PCV valve on our cars they knew they had us by the sack!
“A Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.” ~John Adams”
Vacuum tubes, too. Notice you can't find a tube tester anywhere?
Are you certain? For if this is correct, I find it wildly odd that the lines of flux of Earth's magnetic field, created by the hand of G-d, would intersect perfectly with a man made device such as lines of longitude and latitude. Don't you?
House is wired/cabled all wrong, allowing harmonics to screw up the signals. There’s a reason electrical and cat 5 cables should be separated from each other.
My 5 cats won't lift a finger to keep the cables separated.
Well, that blows the tinfoil hat theory out of the water.
Oh, wait! As I keep telling everyone, ALUMINUM foil is not TIN foil.
Why do you think they quit using tin foil for toothpaste tubes, gum wrappers, and other common sources decades ago, and substituted aluminum foils or plastic wraps instead?
My toaster tried to ask their refrigerator, but it wouldn't give a straight answer. Just kept giggling, and mumbling something about the garbage disposal.
Similar problem. Wireless security cameras, set up in the signal path and you can’t log on.
Back in my computer technician days almost 20 years ago, I had a weirdly similar problem to this. We had a customer at a stone quarry who had an NCR Tower 16/32 minicomputer system that had suddenly lost a disk drive and an I/O board. I went out there (45-mile drive), diddled with it for a couple of hours, and ended up having to take the entire thing back to the office and come in on a Saturday to diagnose it. In the office, everything worked perfectly.
I took it back out to the stone quarry and it started going wonky again inside of two minutes. I spent, literally, three hours in their office, with the computer ripped apart, the quarry staff getting very pissed off at me as the hourly charges mounted and I couldn’t find a problem. As I sat in their floor, with piles of computer parts around me, I just happened to look over behind a file cabinet and see a steel electrical outlet box with orange faceplates and an isolated-ground symbol on it.
“Did this used to be plugged in over there?”, I asked.
“Yeah,” they replied, “but we rearranged the office about two weeks ago and moved the computer over here.”
I got a long extension cord, put the Tower back together, plugged it into the isolated-ground outlet (which was required by the manufacturer, and which we had plugged the computer into when we installed it)...and everything worked beautifully. NCR Towers, as it turns out, are VERY intolerant of dirty power, including from the 80-year-old wiring in a stone quarry office.
When I got back to the office, the owner of my company reamed me out because the stone quarry had called him and said they weren’t going to pay the bill because I should’ve immediately discovered the problem. One of many reasons I hated that job.
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that's not very nice... maybe they were getting low voltage or something and were a little woozy
Maybe i’m wrong but didn’t an Entire family get murdered in that house by the son if i’m remembering correctly.
Even though it’s a real nice looking place i don’t think i could live there.
Yup! Part of Jersey shore mysteries!
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