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[Industrial Toys]

For me to have to endure messing around with a stupid little keyboard on a screen, there has to be a good reason or reward. **** instantly comes to mind.

 

[Citydude]

Just the opposite here, give me a real computer with a screen and keyboard that you can actually see and type on. It totally escapes me why anyone would want to try to web surf or watch something on a dinky little 3x5 screen.

Lol, I have dinky eyes.

 

[RSR]

I don't really know what the outage cause was. Multi-hour outages are usually because somebody dug up a cable or storms push poles over. Couple of years back, we had a garbage truck come through with the dumpster forks up and tore down 50' of new fiber optic cable. No power backup will help in those cases.

We think of 'the web' as a single interconnected web with multiple routing redundancies, but in reality, it's more like a number of overlayed pipelines. One gets broke and lots of stuff quits while stuff right next to it carries on.

This reminds me of when I was in graduate school. I worked at an off campus lab. Power came in on a line, with a pole positioned perfectly on the edge of a downhill curve such that when a car went off the road, as happened about once a month if there was heavy rains, etc., they would hit the pole and knock out power to the entire facility. The pole was surrounded by nothing but cornfields.

Nothing more frustrating than being in the middle of taking critical data, and having the power go out.

This happened every couple of months like clockwork. Finally, someone went out, posted a bullseye on the telephone poll, and started keeping a running tally of how many times it had been hit. After a couple of years, with a number in the teens, the power company wised up, and move the pole about 20 feet down the shoulder of the road so that when cars slid off at that point in the curve, they wouldn't hit the darn pole.

(Written on my cell phone - if I had to be in front of a computer to write, I'd never have time, as kids never give me that luxury of alone time.)

 

[fried1765]

This reminds me of when I was in graduate school. I worked at an off campus lab. Power came in on a line, with a pole positioned perfectly on the edge of a downhill curve such that when a car went off the road, as happened about once a month if there was heavy rains, etc., they would hit the pole and knock out power to the entire facility. The pole was surrounded by nothing but cornfields.

Nothing more frustrating than being in the middle of taking critical data, and having the power go out.

This happened every couple of months like clockwork. Finally, someone went out, posted a bullseye on the telephone poll, and started keeping a running tally of how many times it had been hit. After a couple of years, with a number in the teens, the power company wised up, and move the pole about 20 feet down the shoulder of the road so that when cars slid off at that point in the curve, they wouldn't hit the darn pole.

(Written on my cell phone - if I had to be in front of a computer to write, I'd never have time, as kids never give me that luxury of alone time.)

Posting a "bullseye on the "telephone pole" helped to resolve an electrical outage?
I am confused!