Subj: | MYSTERY IN BREMERTON |
Date: | 3/25/01 8:48:51 AM Pacific Standard Time |
From: dragutin.izakovic@ri.tel.hr
(IZAKOVIC) To: BARDSQUILL@aol.com (Kent Stedman) |
Our power and communication lines are all installed under the ground. There is no way that my roof/computer can be struck with the lighting. So I work on.
Somewhere above my house (one would say a few hundred meters up) a thunderbolt hits. There is no lighting, so the skyscraper's radioactive lighting rode device was not hit. Let's continue. The cursor does not want to move. It seems that the computer has frozen.
Oh, it must have been because of the thunderbolt's invisible lighting (invisible because it is above the cloud, catching up with the freshly sprayed BaO). It has produced a emp which has induced a spike in the mains (I have no filter), or in the phone line (I have a cable 4 m long going from the computer to the wall socket), so the bits and the bytes got garbled. OK, let's reset. I needed the rest anyway.
System works. OK, let's go on line. My modem is whistling, it is all OK.
Failed to connect. Internet provider should install more modems. Here modem goes on again.
Connection failure. My modem talks but it cannot hear. It is deaf as a pot. If I were it's designer I would have made it with opto-couple on the line in. Americans. How much money, so much music.
Next day a new modem is installed. Old one is given over to the supplier for servicing. Two days later the same story. Four weeks after busted modems were returned as they were. I have tossed them in the trash can.