[ale] I saw the magic smoke escape!

[Alex Carver]

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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