The power went out...

[randomness]

...taking down the wireless station. How am I posting this? Using my internal modem and laptop battery power.

How retro.

Edit: It's a bit weird typing in a darkened room with the only light coming from the window and the laptop.

Comments

[allessindra.livejournal.com]

teeheee.

I had to power cycle the dsl modem today. Otherwise, it's 'funnel all my text windows through the machine wtih the redundant modem connection and throttle down'. I haven't badgered the Husband to tell me how to tell our house router to send everything through the modem rather than the dsl. I should do that so I can just shift one thing and keep going.

Then again, if the whole house is down, I'm more likely to wander over to the Dunkin' Donuts / SubWay combo store taht has free wifi...

[r-ness.livejournal.com]

Yah, I was considering going over to the library but realized they'd probably lost their power, too.

[orewashinanai.livejournal.com]

My light in my room went out for almost a week and when the sun went down at 3PM my laptop screen was the only lighting in the room.

[r-ness.livejournal.com]

suck!

[whitebird.livejournal.com]

If you put a big UPS on the DSL modem, it'll run for approximately forever, and you could still have high speed access!

[r-ness.livejournal.com]

I don't actually have high-speed net, so all I need the UPS for is the Mac.

[whitebird.livejournal.com]

Ah, well, then, never mind! :)

[(Anonymous)]

Once upon a time I was an IT manager at a small university. My staff thought I was pretty weird for having a Macintosh and insisting my assistant also have one, but after a while they noticed that whenever everybody else got the latest Windows virus (it's impossible to avoid them in colleges, no matter how much antivirus stuff you have) we never got a virus. They thought that was kinda neat, but they were starting to get over it.

One day the power went out. We were deep in the basement, nowhere near a window, so it was pitch black. My staff got worried about poor me, way down the hall with no flashlight. They found a flashlight and came running, only to find my office brightly glowing by the light of two iMacs as my assistant and I calmly continued programming. I looked up and found several staff members gaping at us, and one finally said "holy shit, those things don't even need power!"

They didn't know I'd installed UPSs under our desks. :-D