[plug] Warning: PC Hardware can catch fire.
proXy
davyd at iprimus.com.au
Thu Aug 8 22:48:15 WST 2002
On Thu, 2002-08-08 at 22:41, Craig Ringer wrote:
> I know. Came in to work last friday to the smell of charred PCB. Power
> supply in one of the editorial machines had caught fire and we were
> really lucky that one of the journos was there to put it out. Looks like
> it was probably an electrical short caused by dust - but the machine is
> < 1 year old. *sigh*. I'm now dusting every 2 weeks.
Ironically, the ones you never touch last forever *looks at router*.
This one (which I used to always be playing with) is getting dodgy as,
and my old desktop (which I played with almost once a week) I managed to
cook, I never did work out how.
Moral of the post: Don't touch computers... ever!
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