<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mangler">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mangler</a><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Nov 18, 2014 at 4:11 PM, Alex Carver <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:agcarver+ale@acarver.net" target="_blank">agcarver+ale@acarver.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">I thought cheap Chinese cases virtually guaranteed spilled blood?<br>
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On 2014-11-18 12:44, Jim Kinney wrote:<br>
> Ha! I was unable to draw out enough mana to cast anything.<br>
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> I worked elsewhere and the students swore no new machine would run without<br>
> a blood sacrifice from one of the senior students. There was much concern<br>
> when he was graduating as to whether there was a need for a pint to kept on<br>
> hand.<br>
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> On Tue, Nov 18, 2014 at 3:29 PM, Todor Fassl <<a href="mailto:fassl.tod@gmail.com">fassl.tod@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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>> I'm going to say this is arcane magic, not devine. But this is why I<br>
>> always cast a protection from evil spell on my servers before putting them<br>
>> into production.<br>
>><br>
>><br>
>> On 11/18/2014 11:52 AM, Jim Kinney wrote:<br>
>><br>
>>> It was preceded by a flash of magic arc then a sustained burst of magic<br>
>>> fire.<br>
>>><br>
>>> By then I had yanked the power cord. The now unidentifiable component<br>
>>> that spectacularly failed had turned to a glowing slag ember. I had no<br>
>>> idea solder could get yellow hot without just puddling in the bottom of<br>
>>> the case.<br>
>>><br>
>>> A video card failed and burned out the power supply. No obvious<br>
>>> evidence of the failure of the video card but the power supply was<br>
>>> completely dead. New on was 100W bigger. That was enough to turn the<br>
>>> failed component on the video card into a light bulb.<br>
>>><br>
>>> Fun!<br>
>>><br>
>>><br>
>>><br>
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