[ale] I saw the magic smoke escape!

[Pete Hardie]

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On Tue, Nov 18, 2014 at 4:11 PM, Alex Carver <agcarver+ale at acarver.net>
wrote:

> I thought cheap Chinese cases virtually guaranteed spilled blood?
>
> On 2014-11-18 12:44, Jim Kinney wrote:
> > Ha! I was unable to draw out enough mana to cast anything.
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > On Tue, Nov 18, 2014 at 3:29 PM, Todor Fassl <fassl.tod at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> >> 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.
> >>
> >>
> >> On 11/18/2014 11:52 AM, Jim Kinney wrote:
> >>
> >>> It was preceded by a flash of magic arc then a sustained burst of magic
> >>> fire.
> >>>
> >>> By then I had yanked the power cord. The now unidentifiable component
> >>> that spectacularly failed had turned to a glowing slag ember. I had no
> >>> idea solder could get yellow hot without just puddling in the bottom of
> >>> the case.
> >>>
> >>> A video card failed and burned out the power supply.  No obvious
> >>> evidence of the failure of the video card but the power supply was
> >>> completely dead. New on was 100W bigger. That was enough to turn the
> >>> failed component on the video card into a light bulb.
> >>>
> >>> Fun!
> >>>
> >>>
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