2007-02-08
Save me from misguided people
On the local freecycle list, someone has posted for a "humane trap" so she can capture the rats infesting her house unharmed and dump them somewhere else (she mentioned out in the woods)
To start with, rats are smart enough that after she catches a few, the rest will savoid the trap, even if she moves it.
Second, while there may be rats in the woodsm they are likely a different species. And "city rats" don't know much about the woods".
So, she's dumping them to be eaten (most likely) or starve.
Third, if they survive, she's just introduced an "alien" species into an ecosystem.
To start with, rats are smart enough that after she catches a few, the rest will savoid the trap, even if she moves it.
Second, while there may be rats in the woodsm they are likely a different species. And "city rats" don't know much about the woods".
So, she's dumping them to be eaten (most likely) or starve.
Third, if they survive, she's just introduced an "alien" species into an ecosystem.
How *not* to treat your computer.
I've been trying to get a friend's system working.
When he and his wife came down for a visit a few weeks back, we knew that *at least* the power supply fan was bad.
He'd been running it that way for months before it finally quit working.
A quick check proved that the power supply was dead. We got a new one, still didn't get things going. But we got a beep code saying the video was bad.
I tried a card from my old tower. The computer didn't complain, but no video.
So they left it and I was going to work on it when I got a chance to borrow a workbench from a friend. That didn't happen so I started fighting stuff here. And finding that in the months since I'd last had my "work area" usable, several things had hidden themselves.
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When he and his wife came down for a visit a few weeks back, we knew that *at least* the power supply fan was bad.
He'd been running it that way for months before it finally quit working.
A quick check proved that the power supply was dead. We got a new one, still didn't get things going. But we got a beep code saying the video was bad.
I tried a card from my old tower. The computer didn't complain, but no video.
So they left it and I was going to work on it when I got a chance to borrow a workbench from a friend. That didn't happen so I started fighting stuff here. And finding that in the months since I'd last had my "work area" usable, several things had hidden themselves.
( Read more... )