Re: under six inches of water -- a debian tale
Easy to explain.
Debian purifies and pure water is not a conductor so electrons take no
nefarious routes.
Windows? Well water dilutes, and spreads - I hope you saved that water
for your lawn.
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Sincerely,
David Smead
http://www.amplepower.com.
On Tue, 7 May 2002, will trillich wrote:
> i thought y'all might enjoy this little tale concerning the
> robustness of debian:
>
> so the rains came and the water eeked into our office until it
> was about six inches deep. two machines were on the floor; a
> windo~1 xp e-machines box, and a debian/gnu linux (an old acer,
> of all things).
>
> rest assured, i realize that this must almost certainly be a
> hardware issue, and yet-- six inches of water comes up to
> waist-deep for most any floor-bound cpu, no?
>
> this was a week ago wednesday -- after the receding tide
> vanished, the windo~1 box when plugged in would light up its
> optical mouse sensor, but NO other signs of life -- no cpu fan,
> no hd spin-up, no LED under the power button... they've swapped
> the motherboard but it apparently also has some borkedness in
> the power supply. any day now...
>
> but the debian box, and i swear the cpu fan was under water
> acting as a mini boat-prop, was STILL OPERATING when saturated
> with H2O.
>
> we unplugged it unceremoniously, of course, as we were standing
> in six inches of water with electrons running about.
>
> but it's back up and serving quite nicely. both nic's are fine,
> as well.
>
> how about THEM apples? :)
>
>
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