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Post by telemancer on Dec 21, 2006 5:10:42 GMT -8
and I'm off the air....last night I was missioning with 2Fist when all of a sudden...FLASH....lightning strikes no more than 100yards from my house and *snap*, *sizzle* goes my computer...the computer seems fine because the cable modem was sacrificed. SO, no more gaming until the cable company comes back with a new cable modem. Sucks becasue Friday is my last day of work until after new years and I was hoping to be online a lot to get some XP! thanks to 2Fist for dragging me around a bit last night, it must have been real fun waiting for me to catch up to each mission area while I dragged my feet the whole time! I hope I can get back up early next week.
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Post by 2fist on Dec 21, 2006 8:59:08 GMT -8
I wondered what happened to you! Sorry to hear about your difficulties. But no worries, when you get back in game I'll run some more missions with you.
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Post by telemancer on Dec 21, 2006 10:39:06 GMT -8
Thanks! I wish I had it installed at my laptop at work! hehe, on the other hand I owul dnever get any work done! I have my fingers crossed the techs form the catv company will come today or tomorrow and get me back online.
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Post by Admin on Dec 21, 2006 11:01:19 GMT -8
Wow. Lightning feeding through a cable line? Your cable company sucks! Have they never heard of insulation and grounding? I'd sue the bastards. Seriously.
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Post by aaroun on Dec 21, 2006 16:52:01 GMT -8
Bastards? I work for the cable company . Blame the national electric code in the US. The will not allow us to have our own grounding rods at houses...we have to bond to the home's electrical common ground and at each active or terminating device. Unfortunately, we have found recently that the electrical companies have been disconnecting our primary grounding wires without reason or notice. Just be glad that cablemodems constructed after DOCSIS 1.0 were required to have one-time surge arresting fuses put into the power converters...otherwise *sizzle/poof* would have been coming from your motherboard.
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Post by Admin on Dec 21, 2006 17:33:18 GMT -8
hehe. Then sue the electrical companies. ;D It is the american way after all. The power infrastructure in the U.S.A. is mindbogglingly (is that a word? lol) crude. I always felt, and still do, that it was a mistake to tie our grid into the U.S. one. Our nation runs east west... not north south... A couple main feed points to the south but the main canadian power grid should be independant from the U.S. and interconnected throughout the nation.
In my opinion. heh.
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Post by aaroun on Dec 22, 2006 15:14:20 GMT -8
Yeah...I remember the solar flare that cause the entire northeastern US and south eastern canada to black out for about 2 solid days...
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Post by Admin on Dec 22, 2006 15:37:55 GMT -8
A single downed line in minnesota caused a cascading failure all through the eastern seaboard too. Just a few years back. Power was down for nearly a week in some places.
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