1 - Computer caught fire.

2 - Office smoke damage.

3 - Repair office.

4 - Purchase new computer - this time I'm building my own.

5 - Purchase portable computer to use until new computer
arrives.

6 - Use Google groups temporarily - which, by the way,
sucks.

So how's everything been? :)

Miss me?

wrote:
1 - Computer caught fire.

2 - Office smoke damage.

3 - Repair office.

4 - Purchase new computer - this time I'm building my own.

5 - Purchase portable computer to use until new computer
arrives.

6 - Use Google groups temporarily - which, by the way,
sucks.

So how's everything been? :)

Miss me?


Miss who?

wrote in message
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1 - Computer caught fire.

2 - Office smoke damage.

3 - Repair office.

4 - Purchase new computer - this time I'm building my own.

5 - Purchase portable computer to use until new computer
arrives.

6 - Use Google groups temporarily - which, by the way,
sucks.

So how's everything been? :)

Miss me?


You gotta learn to put those cigars completely out.

Eisboch

On Feb 2, 7:24 am, "Eisboch" wrote:
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1 - Computer caught fire.

2 - Office smoke damage.

3 - Repair office.

4 - Purchase new computer - this time I'm building my own.

5 - Purchase portable computer to use until new computer
arrives.

6 - Use Google groups temporarily - which, by the way,
sucks.

So how's everything been? :)

Miss me?

You gotta learn to put those cigars completely out.

Not a cigar - believe it or not, the power supply must have had
a thermal runaway or something similar.

It was more messy than dangerous, but the office filled up with
smoke - needed a new desk, had to have everything cleaned,
etc.

Interesting experience.

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Not a cigar - believe it or not, the power supply must have had
a thermal runaway or something similar.

It was more messy than dangerous, but the office filled up with
smoke - needed a new desk, had to have everything cleaned,
etc.

Interesting experience.


That sucks. Laptop or tower?
I leave my laptop on 24/7 and have often thought that maybe that's not a
good idea.

Glad it wasn't more serious.

Eisboch

"Eisboch" wrote in message
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wrote in message
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Not a cigar - believe it or not, the power supply must have had
a thermal runaway or something similar.

It was more messy than dangerous, but the office filled up with
smoke - needed a new desk, had to have everything cleaned,
etc.

Interesting experience.


That sucks. Laptop or tower?
I leave my laptop on 24/7 and have often thought that maybe that's not a
good idea.

Glad it wasn't more serious.

Eisboch


I was thinking the same thing. We have 5 computers in the house running
24/7, including one laptop. The power cord on my old Dell laptop was
recalled and replaced because of several cases of them overheating and
catching fire.

On Feb 2, 8:06 am, "JimH" wrote:
"Eisboch" wrote in message

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wrote in message
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Not a cigar - believe it or not, the power supply must have had
a thermal runaway or something similar.

It was more messy than dangerous, but the office filled up with
smoke - needed a new desk, had to have everything cleaned,
etc.

Interesting experience.

That sucks. Laptop or tower?
I leave my laptop on 24/7 and have often thought that maybe that's not a
good idea.

Glad it wasn't more serious.

Eisboch

I was thinking the same thing. We have 5 computers in the house running
24/7, including one laptop. The power cord on my old Dell laptop was
recalled and replaced because of several cases of them overheating and
catching fire.

I shut them down when I'm finished with them.

On Feb 2, 7:58 am, "Eisboch" wrote:
wrote in message

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Not a cigar - believe it or not, the power supply must have had
a thermal runaway or something similar.

It was more messy than dangerous, but the office filled up with
smoke - needed a new desk, had to have everything cleaned,
etc.

Interesting experience.

That sucks. Laptop or tower?
I leave my laptop on 24/7 and have often thought that maybe that's not a
good idea.

Glad it wasn't more serious.

It was a tower with a 400 watt power supply. I don't really know what
happened, but it definetly started near the power supply. There
really
wasn't a fire as such - the computer caught, but it didn't go further
than
that other than a lot of smoke.

The dogs actually alerted me to it. I was in the living room
watching
BSG from the DVR on the HD TV when Skye and Skippy starting sniffing
and sneezing - then Skye ran down the hall and started barking at the
office
door - then I smelled it. I ran downstairs, killed the power to that
side of the
house, grabbed the fire bottle and opened the door after checking to
see if
it was hot. Smoke everywhere - discretion the better part of valor I
called
911. Got the dogs out of the house, secured the cats in their carry-
all
and waited. Fortunately, no serious fire damage and no water damage
because they used dry extinguisher.

I am on the side of shutting them down - I've seen some research about
this and it doesn't seem to make a difference in terms of power
consumption
or reliability. On the other hand, I've seen other wise.

Personal choice I guess.

On 2 Feb 2007 05:17:57 -0800, wrote:

1 - Computer caught fire.

2 - Office smoke damage.

3 - Repair office.

4 - Purchase new computer - this time I'm building my own.

5 - Purchase portable computer to use until new computer
arrives.

6 - Use Google groups temporarily - which, by the way,
sucks.

So how's everything been? :)

Miss me?

We never miss those who post with fake names and email addresses. But -
since you've provided all the pertinent identifying information, yes.

How the hell did your computer catch fire. Porno? Where? Must have been
some hot stuff.

Or, did you leave a cigar resting on it???

Inquiring minds need to know.
--
***** Have a super day! *****

John H

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1 - Computer caught fire.

2 - Office smoke damage.



That sucks! Some here will blame it on bad karma. ;-)

Was it the power supply catching fire?