<div dir="ltr"><div>Ha! I was unable to draw out enough mana to cast anything.<br><br></div>I worked elsewhere and the students swore no new machine would run without a blood sacrifice from one of the senior students. There was much concern when he was graduating as to whether there was a need for a pint to kept on hand.<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Nov 18, 2014 at 3:29 PM, Todor Fassl <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:fassl.tod@gmail.com" target="_blank">fassl.tod@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">I'm going to say this is arcane magic, not devine. But this is why I always cast a protection from evil spell on my servers before putting them into production.<div><div class="h5"><br>
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On 11/18/2014 11:52 AM, Jim Kinney wrote:<br>
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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>
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