Just a rant... (tech rant)

[TAG Manager]

Had a nice day planned out today... didn't have much work to do, so I planned for a light day and to head back home after lunch. Well, the plan was to go home and still do a bit of work, plus more punch list items for TAG... but that never got to happen.

My main workstation at home, which is quite beefy, decided it didn't want to work today. It just took a dump on itself as I was working. Very obvious power supply failure...

So, off to Akiba for a nearly two hour round trip to get a new PSU, come home and finish tearing out the old one and putting the new one in. (of course, none of the modular cables would fit the new PSU...) Bleh...

That all said, the PSU that died was Corsair AX1200 and it had been running nearly 24/7 for 6 years. Money well spent, I think... new one is a AX1200i.

In the end, glad it was just a PSU issue. But man, time seriously wasted today.

 

[MikeH]

So, off to Akiba for a nearly two hour round trip to get a new PSU

For a fleeting moment I thought you have started to use the same acronym as @RIDER 00 and already pictured a scene where your computer dies and you run out to get some PSY screaming "fuck this board".

 

[TAG Manager]

For a fleeting moment I thought you have started to use the same acronym as @RIDER 00 and already pictured a scene where your computer dies and you run out to get some PSY screaming "fuck this board".

lol...

Some days I just want to rm -rf everything.

 

[nedar]

lol...

Some days I just want to rm -rf everything.

Don't forget the `sudo`

 

[TAG Manager]

Don't forget the `sudo`

fuck that, I like to see the world burn... logged in under ROOT*.


(*disclaimer: I would not be so stupid to do so, only idiots use the root account.)

 

[roots reggae]

fuck that, I like to see the world burn... logged in under ROOT*.


(*disclaimer: I would not be so stupid to do so, only idiots use the root account.)

Whoa, for a few seconds I thought "ROOT*" referred to me, scratch head, scratch head.

 

[User#8628]

Whoa, for a few seconds I thought "ROOT*" referred to me, scratch head, scratch head.

I thought the same thing! Haha

 

[TAG Manager]

Whoa, for a few seconds I thought "ROOT*" referred to me, scratch head, scratch head.

Sorry - didn't think about that when I wrote that. Yeah, not about you.

 

[impish]

lol...

Some days I just want to rm -rf everything.

Only "some days"? for me it's "most days"...

 

[zer0ed]

autoexec.bat

 

[John Chavers]

That all said, the PSU that died

Were you running this with a three prong plug through a UPS? Japan's crazy lack of grounded power outlets is a constant puzzle to me.

 

[ghoust.lansex]

dont forget to type 'sudo rm -rf / ' before you do anything else hahaha

 

[TAG Manager]

Were you running this with a three prong plug through a UPS? Japan's crazy lack of grounded power outlets is a constant puzzle to me.

I live in a fairly modern place, but it's still the usual two-prong outlets but there is support for earth ground which is wired to some of the appliances.
This PSU, had a fairly extreme amount of usage, so I'm not terribly surprised that it died... but there didn't seem to be any warning.

OTOH, I did have a 2U server have its motherboard toasted due to a bad ground.

 

[TAG Manager]

fuck that, I like to see the world burn... logged in under ROOT*.

dont forget to type 'sudo rm -rf / ' before you do anything else hahaha

See above.