Don't you Hate it...

Liljericho · Post by **Liljericho** » Fri Aug 04, 2006 1:19 pm

When you Are working on something and the power goes out

Just happened to me spent 2 hours on a skin and then the power goes out all is lost thats just wrong lol

Grunt Rebel · Post by **Grunt Rebel** » Fri Aug 04, 2006 1:32 pm

I usually start a tutorial and forget to save and then bam power goes out and i get mad and not start over. I absoloutly hate it when that happens.

Pompey · Post by **Pompey** » Fri Aug 04, 2006 1:52 pm

I've had power go out whenever I wasn't working.

I generally shut down my computers during a storm, I've learned my lessons.

Grunt Rebel · Post by **Grunt Rebel** » Fri Aug 04, 2006 2:16 pm

Ya i ruined my desktop once, not that i even care about it. Its so old, i just unplug my laptop.

FleetAdmiralBacon · Post by **FleetAdmiralBacon** » Fri Aug 04, 2006 2:25 pm

5 words:
Surge Protector And Auto Save

[cc]z@nd! · Post by **[cc]z@nd!** » Fri Aug 04, 2006 7:26 pm

not even surge protectors can totally protect you. lightning pwns j00. frequent backup to an external terabyte HDD ftw (that's what i wanna do).

i hate it when freshman act like they own the school. they don't, the seniors and a few juniors do, and the freshmen need to learn their place.

Pompey · Post by **Pompey** » Fri Aug 04, 2006 7:56 pm

[cc]z@nd! wrote:not even surge protectors can totally protect you. lightning pwns j00. frequent backup to an external terabyte HDD ftw (that's what i wanna do).

i hate it when freshman act like they own the school. they don't, the seniors and a few juniors do, and the freshmen need to learn their place.

Amen.

And surge protectors don't stop your computer from being shut down. They only protect surges. The only solution is a UPS. My supervisor was so happy when he got the UPS for the servers, he kept unplugging the servers and laughing, because they didn't shut off. I was mostly just laughing at how silly the whole process was.

S3anyBoy · Post by **S3anyBoy** » Fri Aug 04, 2006 9:05 pm

thats why i just dont work on stuff to make sure it wont accidently get deleted

Kirk · Post by **Kirk** » Fri Aug 04, 2006 9:47 pm

So you're just a failure..

Um, I just save often and have a surge protector (not that that'll do anything other than keep my computer safe {we don't have lightning here}).

xXxCocoFangxXx · Post by **xXxCocoFangxXx** » Fri Aug 04, 2006 10:20 pm

My power usually never goes out.

Kirk · Post by **Kirk** » Fri Aug 04, 2006 10:26 pm

Well yeah, mine rarely goes out either. We rarely get any sort of storm whatsoever.

Cuda · Post by **Cuda** » Fri Aug 04, 2006 11:17 pm

With all the heat last week, AirCon Use and power consumption in the area was causing rolling blackouts. My friend and I were in a KW in CSS and Power cut on our Neighborhood and got us Disconnected from the game, and caused us to lose.

Luckily, Power outages happen few and far between, and we dont have to worry about lightning 'till winter Storm season.

rossmum · Post by **rossmum** » Sat Aug 05, 2006 12:32 am

We get both frequently. My PSU blew the other week, luckily we had a spare downstairs. PC gets shut off at the first sign of an electrical storm.

[cc]z@nd! · Post by **[cc]z@nd!** » Sat Aug 05, 2006 6:35 pm

that's why i just want to buy a UPS. something to act like a defensive wall between me and the outside world.

Patrickssj6 · Post by **Patrickssj6** » Sat Aug 05, 2006 7:05 pm

Can't happen to me.I overuse the save button.Reflex I guess.

FleetAdmiralBacon · Post by **FleetAdmiralBacon** » Sun Aug 06, 2006 7:11 am

I use a notebook, so I don't care about the power going out.
I also just remembered that I'm not even attached to my surge protector!
Oh noes!!!

[offtopic]wtf? Noes is in the Firefox dictionary? Wtf does 'noes' mean in the English language?[/offtopic]

a mammoth · Post by **a mammoth** » Sun Aug 06, 2006 9:29 am

My power never goes out during storms, the only time it went out was when the electrical company decided to do work on it. Even during a hurricane it didn't go out.

[gx]shadow · Post by **[gx]shadow** » Sun Aug 06, 2006 10:12 am

I have my laptop, so I really don't have to worry about it during a storm. When I am on it while it is charging, I have it plugged into a surge protector power strip so nothing can happen to it.

rossmum · Post by **rossmum** » Sun Aug 06, 2006 9:56 pm

a mammoth wrote:My power never goes out during storms, the only time it went out was when the electrical company decided to do work on it. Even during a hurricane it didn't go out.

Underground wires mb.

And surge protector power strips do jack all against lightning strikes, My PC runs through TWO of the things and the PSU still got cooked.

noxiousraccoon · Post by **noxiousraccoon** » Mon Aug 07, 2006 1:07 am

Surge protectors can only prevent only one surge, it takes a while for it regain is defenses (in a way). If you got multiple surges, your toast. Though, every situation is different and it does vary.