[ale] I saw the magic smoke escape!

[Jim Kinney]

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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James P. Kinney III

Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail. What you gain
at one end you lose at the other. It's like feeding a dog on his own tail.
It won't fatten the dog.
- Speech 11/23/1900 Mark Twain


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