Awake now

[james_davis_nicoll]

Turned on my laptop, it ran for a bit and then went black. Totally unresponsive.

Took me a while to notice someone had in a fit of safety consciousness disconnected my laptop power cord. The little old lady I help take care of worries that plugged in electronics will burst into fire so she sometimes disconnects stuff.

At least it wasn't an external drive mid-backup.

Comments

[dormouse1953]

Back in the seventies, I was involved with testing a new computer system to be used for electric power grid control. The final test was that it had to run 100 hours without rebooting. Friday morning, with five hours to do, a cleaner came in and and unplugged the computer to plug in his vacuum. The guy in charge of the software team tried to claim it would have kept going if it hadn't been unplugged. We weren't buying it.

[patrick_morris_miller]

I was told back in the Nineties that a janitor did the same thing in the Tulsa county morgue, except with the dead guy refrigeration system. The only thing that I doubt about that is a DGRS using an accessible, compatible plug.

I have half-joked about putting a sign by the plug to the office coffee engine saying that anyone who unplugs it will answer to Juan Valdez.

[dormouse1953]

I had to look that up. Not a name I'm familiar with. Don't think the brand name is used in the UK.

[patrick_morris_miller]

Less a brand and more an industry mascot, sort of like the California Raisins (damn, I'm old).