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  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,069
    edited October 2015

    ...still an hour and ten minutes until Caturday here.

     


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  • srieschsriesch Posts: 4,241
    edited October 2015

    I'm embarassed to say I was one of the annoying tech support calls once.  I bought a new printer, but every time I printed a page it suddenly started with one long, loud beep while feeding the paper.  I called HP printer customer support and explained my issue and scratched their heads and politely tried to tell me the printer didn't even HAVE a beeper and might, just might, it be coming from somewhere else? Well, I stuck my head right up against the printer and yup, sure enough, the noise is coming from the UPS the printer is on, but only when the printer is actually printing.  Turns out you don't want a laser printer plugged into a UPS, it's such a power hog that it exceeds the maximum load the UPS can put out, so the UPS responds with an error buzzer, but this only happens as the printer is in the process of pulling a piece of paper through.  I thanked the HP guy profusely for figuring out the problem with my UPS and hung up.

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  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,069

    ...at least you didn't plug a space heater into the UPS.  Was talking to a fellow today who knew someone that actually did that and the UPS literally blew up.

  • AmaltheaAmalthea Posts: 224

    I think this funny my mother got sent fits in here:

     

    Facebook for seniors... it works!!!
    For those of my generation who do not and cannot comprehend why Facebook exists:
    I am trying to make friends outside of Facebook while applying the same principles.
    Therefore, every day I walk down the street and tell passersby what I have eaten, how
    I feel at the moment, what I have done the night before, what I will do later, and with whom.
    I give them pictures of my family, my dog, and of me gardening, taking things apart in
    the garage, watering the lawn, standing in front of landmarks, driving around town,
    having lunch, and doing what anybody and everybody does every day.
    I also listen to their conversations, give them the "thumbs up" and ....tell them I like them.
    And it works just like Facebook. I already have four people following me:
    two police officers, a private investigator, and a psychiatrist.

  • ChoholeChohole Posts: 33,604
    Amalthea said:

    I think this funny my mother got sent fits in here:

     

    Facebook for seniors... it works!!!
    For those of my generation who do not and cannot comprehend why Facebook exists:
    I am trying to make friends outside of Facebook while applying the same principles.
    Therefore, every day I walk down the street and tell passersby what I have eaten, how
    I feel at the moment, what I have done the night before, what I will do later, and with whom.
    I give them pictures of my family, my dog, and of me gardening, taking things apart in
    the garage, watering the lawn, standing in front of landmarks, driving around town,
    having lunch, and doing what anybody and everybody does every day.
    I also listen to their conversations, give them the "thumbs up" and ....tell them I like them.
    And it works just like Facebook. I already have four people following me:
    two police officers, a private investigator, and a psychiatrist.

    Love that.  I have just sent it to my Brother, who is one of those annoying people who jkeeps filling my inbox up with things he gets sent and thinks are funny.

     

    I like to get my own back from time to time. 

  • Sfariah DSfariah D Posts: 26,309

    I read an article title wrong as "what is your screensaver destroying?" When it actually said "what is your sunscreen destroying?"  Really changed that meaning.

  • TJohnTJohn Posts: 11,112

  • Sfariah DSfariah D Posts: 26,309

    "I never drink...wine." - Bela Lugosi (Count Dracula)

    ​LOL

  • Sfariah DSfariah D Posts: 26,309

    Meow?

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  • TJohnTJohn Posts: 11,112

  • fixmypcmikefixmypcmike Posts: 19,583

    I can't believe we went a whole week without Stupid.  Fortunately, I did many stupid things this week to make up for it.

  • TJohnTJohn Posts: 11,112

    Gone fishin'.

  • marymary Posts: 70
    kyoto kid said:

    ...at least you didn't plug a space heater into the UPS.  Was talking to a fellow today who knew someone that actually did that and the UPS literally blew up.

    I just have no words for that......none.

  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 11,525
    edited November 2015
    Amalthea said:

     

     

     

    mary said:
    kyoto kid said:

    ...at least you didn't plug a space heater into the UPS.  Was talking to a fellow today who knew someone that actually did that and the UPS literally blew up.

    I just have no words for that......none.

    I do.  Fire, fire!

    Back in the 90's I had charge of a small computer room with four or five PCs and two HP UNIX rack mounted machines.  We had the whole system on several UPS's.  Machines came and went and some of our people didn't pay much attention to power limitations.  If a power plug was empty it was apparently fair game to plug something into it.  I was sitting in the computer room about 6 feet from the main rack when "BOOM", smoke, flames!!!!!   We'd just moved into this building and our offices were only one suite out of four suites on the floor.  Smoke and flames were pouring out of the back of the computer rack and I guess I panicked and while yelling "FIRE, FIRE", ran to the nearest place I knew where to cut the power to the room.  Just out side our suite main doors was an electrical panel.  I flew there and just started flipping every switch I could see.  Cut off all the power for everybody on the floor.  I guess the UPS was overloaded and just held on by a thread until enough hard drives were in operation all at once and it exploded.  Fire didn't spread and damage wasn't great but we kept better track of power loads after that. blush

    Someday let me tell you about the time that one of our engineers blew up a $50,000 HP UNIX machine at Union Electric (power company in St. Louis, MO) by giving it 220v instead of 110v surprise

     

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  • ChoholeChohole Posts: 33,604

    after halloween   

  • Sfariah DSfariah D Posts: 26,309

    This free WiFi is stupid but proves I get what I pay for.

  • AmaltheaAmalthea Posts: 224
    Chohole said:
    Amalthea said:

    I think this funny my mother got sent fits in here:

     

    Facebook for seniors... it works!!!
    For those of my generation who do not and cannot comprehend why Facebook exists:
    I am trying to make friends outside of Facebook while applying the same principles.
    Therefore, every day I walk down the street and tell passersby what I have eaten, how
    I feel at the moment, what I have done the night before, what I will do later, and with whom.
    I give them pictures of my family, my dog, and of me gardening, taking things apart in
    the garage, watering the lawn, standing in front of landmarks, driving around town,
    having lunch, and doing what anybody and everybody does every day.
    I also listen to their conversations, give them the "thumbs up" and ....tell them I like them.
    And it works just like Facebook. I already have four people following me:
    two police officers, a private investigator, and a psychiatrist.

    Love that.  I have just sent it to my Brother, who is one of those annoying people who jkeeps filling my inbox up with things he gets sent and thinks are funny.

     

    I like to get my own back from time to time. 

    My mother does the same thing. The next time she sends a good one I'll toss it your direction. :)

  • Sfariah DSfariah D Posts: 26,309

    as a download size approaches a gb the longer it takes for it to download.

  • Sfariah DSfariah D Posts: 26,309

    Is it Caterday?  Will we miss out on this Caterday?

  • TJohnTJohn Posts: 11,112

    Huh? Caturday?

  • ChoholeChohole Posts: 33,604
    edited November 2015

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  • Sfariah DSfariah D Posts: 26,309

    Your monkeys are on fire 

  • EtriganEtrigan Posts: 603
    edited November 2015
    Kulay Wolf said:

    Your monkeys are on fire 

    My hovercraft is full of eels!

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  • TJohnTJohn Posts: 11,112
    Kulay Wolf said:

    Your monkeys are on fire 

  • atticanneatticanne Posts: 3,009

    Monkeys???

  • AmaltheaAmalthea Posts: 224

    Common stupid it seems to me. Lots of people mistake chimps for monkeys. LOL

  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 11,525
    Amalthea said:

    Common stupid it seems to me. Lots of people mistake chimps for monkeys. LOL

    I know several apes that are tragically mistaken for humans. surprise

     

  • ChoholeChohole Posts: 33,604

     

    LeatherGryphon said:
    Amalthea said:

    Common stupid it seems to me. Lots of people mistake chimps for monkeys. LOL

    I know several apes that are tragically mistaken for humans. surprise

     

    And a few humans that could easily be mistaken for Apes?

  • ChoholeChohole Posts: 33,604
    edited November 2015

    Well not quite that much really, but we did get the first snow of the winter much earlier than usual.

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  • WendyLuvsCatzWendyLuvsCatz Posts: 38,239
    edited November 2015

    so I rendered a hail storm

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