When you said I needed a hard copy, I hope you're not saying I should print all 854 pages! Back in High School, our VB teacher allowed us to print the whole thing using the schools toner and HP LaserJet 4 (or 5). It took all day, but we got it!
-- Law of Expanding Memory: Applications Will Also Expand Until RAM Is Full
Sorry, we lost electricity for 4 hours. What's weird is when it first went out, my sister called the electric company and they knew it was going to be out for 4 hours. It was pouring rain but maybe the electric didn't go out because of the rain.
-- Law of Expanding Memory: Applications Will Also Expand Until RAM Is Full
Do you think they'd know how much time it'd take to get the new pole back into place? I almost thought that, but they were pretty dead on about the 4 hours. One of our stereo systems has a clock and when the electricity comes back on, it tells you how long it was out for. NYSEG said it'd be out for 4 hours. It went out exactly at 4:00PM and came back on exactly 3:57 minutes, according to the stereo.....so, 7:57PM. What was weird was we had electricity....14VAC, not enough to power PCs or anything, but our little tiny lights that come on during dark time, they stayed lit the whole time. A bit weird.
-- Law of Expanding Memory: Applications Will Also Expand Until RAM Is Full
Don't buy those $10 PSU "specials". They fail, and they have taken whole computers with them.
My computer doubles as a space heater.
Permanently Retired Systems:
RIP Advantech UNO-3072LA (2008-2021) - Decommissioned and taken out of service permanently due to lack of software support for it. Not very likely to ever be recommissioned again.
Asus Q550LF (Old main laptop, 2014-2022) - Decommissioned and stripped due to a myriad of problems, the main battery bloating being the final nail in the coffin.
Kooky and Kool Systems
- 1996 Power Macintosh 7200/120 + PC Compatibility Card - Under Restoration
- 1993 Gateway 2000 80486DX/50 - Fully Operational/WIP
- 2004 Athlon 64 Retro Gaming System - Indefinitely Parked
- Main Workstation - Fully operational!
I was thinking government conspiracy! I figured there was someone who was going to blow some giant government cover up or something wide open and the news stations were going to report, in the area, so they killed all the juice so no one could see it. Although we leeched off my parents generator to get the TV, cable box and air conditioner running, the cable was out as well. I figured it'd take a good 4 hours for them to setup up everything, take the guy out and clean up the mess, without anyone knowing.
I guess it makes more sense that someone crashed into a pole or something took out the electricity and the TV station didn't have any backup power.
-- Law of Expanding Memory: Applications Will Also Expand Until RAM Is Full
the government can already kill radio & tv broadcasts - they have a remote emergency over-ride on the uplink.
it was for use in a "duck & cover" scenario.
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