Whoops. That's the magic smoke. Without it, your computer can't compute well.
I wanna hurt you, but I can't resist the sinister attraction of your cold and muscular body!
Buffybot ,'Dirty Girls'
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DCJensen - Oct 13, 2005 6:44:51 pm PDT #5070 of 10003
All is well that ends in pizza.
DXMachina - Oct 14, 2005 2:28:40 am PDT #5071 of 10003
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
Yup. The smoke seems to have escaped completely (probably when I took the side panel off), because the machine is dead like a thing that is dead.
DCJensen - Oct 14, 2005 4:06:46 am PDT #5072 of 10003
All is well that ends in pizza.
I hate it when that happens.
DXMachina - Oct 14, 2005 4:17:28 am PDT #5073 of 10003
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
Fortunately, power supplies are cheap. I'm just worried that it took something with it. It was a pretty loud bang, the most spectacular failure I've ever witnessed.
tommyrot - Oct 14, 2005 4:19:11 am PDT #5074 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
I'm just worried that it took something with it. It was a pretty loud bang, the most spectacular failure I've ever witnessed.
Was it preceded by a synthesized female voice saying, "Warning. Magic smoke containment failure in one minute."?
DXMachina - Oct 14, 2005 4:22:36 am PDT #5075 of 10003
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
Nope, but I may have turned that option off when I set the thing up.
The other possibility is that it was attacked by a Lutheran space fleet from my kitchen sink. That would explain a lot.
tommyrot - Oct 14, 2005 4:25:10 am PDT #5076 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Nope, but I may have turned that option off when I set the thing up.
You also need to run a Level 3 Diagnostic from time to time.
amych - Oct 14, 2005 4:25:24 am PDT #5077 of 10003
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Jeez, the lutherans have a space program now? I can't keep up.
Tom Scola - Oct 14, 2005 4:26:18 am PDT #5078 of 10003
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
Stupid Space-Lutherans!
DCJensen - Oct 14, 2005 4:27:43 am PDT #5079 of 10003
All is well that ends in pizza.
Actually, if it was white smoke, your computer may have a new pope.
So, maybe Space Catholics.