[Lawrence]

The blackout caught me off guard, My second drive,
Which was the standard drive that came with my
computer (A Western Digital) died, It just suddenly
decided not to load after the blackout.
I pulled it out today and found that it was just hot, It
wouldn't load anymore or show up on the desktop, I
tried everything possible.

I'll try again at a later date to see if it can be resurrected,
My Maxtor drive however is working wonderfully.

Hmmmm....


Dave

 

[Strongblade]

The blackout caused me not to use my computer. It was a frickin' tragedy...

Thank god for Laptops...

Heh

 

[buck]

Caught me off guard as well. So far all seems well, but time wil tell.

 

[old dawg]

My backup battery power supply let me shut down. I figured I could get by with my daughter's laptop until I realized that the Airport was dead!

 

[Lawrence]

The icons are gone on ehMac at the moment and I'm
taking that as a hint that it's time to log off. Looks like
another rolling blackout is coming this way.

Cheers all.

Dave

 

[Finch]

Finally that used UPS I bought months ago paid off...

 

[monokitty]

Thankfully, NB'rs weren't affected by this outage.

 

[kps]

A few months ago I bought a APC XS 1000 UPS at Costco...

I generally put my Mac to sleep and I was really worried because I work till 9pm and the power went out 4:10pm. I got home around 10:30 and to my surprise the UPS battery was still on...I brought the Mac out of sleep and shut it down, then I shut down the UPS. Waaaay

 

[dcyyz]

a ups that provides automated shutdowns is the best way to go. apc has products that provide attached (usb) or network shutdowns. a power strategy and data backup strategy is necessary. you can find solutions that suit the level of insurance you want.

 

[elmer]

The blackout meant I could only play Warcraft 3 for a couple more hours. :g

 

[Etaoin Shrdlu]

Weird occurence here, and my machine wasn't on when the blackout hit.

I could receive but couldn't send mail. The Mozilla 1.4 smpt setting had changed to smpt8.sympatico.ca from smtp1.sympatico.ca — and the same change was made to the Mozilla 1.2 version I run in System 9.2.2 on another partition.

For this to occur in two System versions and on different partitions, points to the server making the changes and raises the question as to what else Sympatico — and other ISPs — can fiddle with. The settings would have had to change as soon as I connected.

I demand a royal commission.

 

[elmer]

I've seen (a year or so ago), email account settings change spontaneously on Rogers/Outlook Express/Windows 98. No idea why.