From: Norman Palardy (npalardy_at_great-white-software.com)
Date: Mon Oct 31 2005 - 18:55:35 PST
On Oct 31, 2005, at 6:47 PM, William Pociengel wrote:
> Paul Jerry wrote:
>> I think this falls under the "now-it-magically-seems-to-work"
>> category of computing science.
>
> thats why you have sysadmins, to ensure that the smoke stays IN the
> hardware. Once the smoke gets out it will stop working.
Electronics are obviously using different colored smoke for different
components.
Sometimes you can let out nice blue stuff and the things is dead ASAP
Sometimes a little puff of white and it ... well .... it's dead
Grey is my favorite. It usually pours out and they must scent that
stuff as well
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