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06-06-2005, 05:59 PM #1Web Hosting Master
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storm stroke my file lolz
Has it ever happened to you when you were working on something on your PC and thunderstorm strike? I was writing some PHP script, and while trying to save my file, the storm stroke at the same instance. My pc went off. When i started up my pc and viewed the file - nothing was in there except square boxes - lucky me, i have a backup online
Next time, I better buy life insurance for my file j/k
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06-06-2005, 06:18 PM #2Junior Guru
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Nope. However, once I accidently flicked my power bar with my toe, back and forth, and my printer blew up.
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06-06-2005, 06:22 PM #3Web Hosting Master
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I've had my graphics card smoked by a surge -- that could have been prevented with a surge protector; I was too lazy to buy one -- but I don't recall ever losing any data.
I have, however, knocked the power strip with any one of my limbs, by dropping things on it, and by my dog stepping on it. That made me rather angry, as each time it seemed I was working on something more important than the previous time. One time, on Office 2000, without the crash recovery tools, I had been working on a history report, due the next day. I had to completely rewrite the whole thing, remembering as much as I could. That was a huge bummer. Now, I remember to save anything I'm working on every few minutes.
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06-06-2005, 07:04 PM #4Web Hosting Master
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UPS people UPS, you can buy a cheap one for under $100 that will give you at least 5 minutes of time to save everything and properly shut down.. Unless you have a backup generator at your house, where 5 minutes is plenty to support it until the generator starts and stabilizes!
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06-06-2005, 07:08 PM #5Need Moar KAWFEE
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That or start using laptops. My lappy is set up as a workstation, however, battery backup kicks in immediately in the event of a power loss.
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06-06-2005, 07:55 PM #6Web Hosting Master
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Originally posted by cwatson
Nope. However, once I accidently flicked my power bar with my toe, back and forth, and my printer blew up.
When I was playing dialbo 2. He pushed the power button on the computer, I noticed it, and he had to hold the button down till I saved, because if he backed off, the computer would have turned off.
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06-06-2005, 08:09 PM #7Web Hosting Master
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Originally posted by Camp2Win
"LOL"
When I was playing dialbo 2. He pushed the power button on the computer, I noticed it, and he had to hold the button down till I saved, because if he backed off, the computer would have turned off.Let Google know when your dead | Read More >>
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06-06-2005, 08:17 PM #8Web Hosting Master
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A ghost.
My brother.
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06-06-2005, 09:22 PM #9Web Hosting Master
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Originally posted by Trifolic
UPS people UPS, you can buy a cheap one for under $100 that will give you at least 5 minutes of time to save everything and properly shut down.. Unless you have a backup generator at your house, where 5 minutes is plenty to support it until the generator starts and stabilizes!