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Duncan wrote: |
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> "Mark Haney" <mhaney@××××××××××××.org> posted |
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> 48B4148E.2010703@××××××××××××.org, excerpted below, on Tue, 26 Aug 2008 |
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> 10:34:54 -0400: |
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>> Yep. That's it. I can't believe I didn't think of that. I haven't |
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>> done much with overlays, so it didn't occur to me. Ever had one of |
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>> those days you couldn't do diddly right? I'm having one of those today. |
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> Yes. =:^( |
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> Sometimes, I think it's the hardware. I'll beat my head against a wall |
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> trying to fix a bug, only to giveup and shutdown. Low and behold, after |
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> a night's rest or when I come back from work, I can flip the machine back |
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> on and it works fine. On at least one occasion that was after I had |
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> repeatedly rebooted trying to fix it, too, all without success. I'm |
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> convinced that one was some capacitor saved setting or something, that |
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> wouldn't go away with a simple reboot, only when I let the machine stay |
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> off for long enough that the capacitor fully discharged, so when I |
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> restarted after letting it set for several hours, the setting was reset |
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> to machine normal and everything just "magically" worked. |
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I have a name for how things magically fix themselves. It's called a |
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'Geek Proximity Detector'. Anytime my mom has a problem, I'll go to her |
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house and it works for me. :) |
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I'll tell ya, you know it's bad when you can't even log into the |
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management side of the CMS you use to power the company website. |
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:O |
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Libenter homines id quod volunt credunt -- Caius Julius Caesar |
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Mark Haney |
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Sr. Systems Administrator |
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ERC Broadband |
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(828) 350-2415 |
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