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Ok, here's the situation. We get to the site of Smith-Fest a few hours late because of various obstacles. Once we do get there, we unload all the computers and equipment from the cars. We get just about everything setup and we're all set for power. As we plug my machine and the Smith-Fest server in, POW!!!! Both power supplies blow! WTF!?! It's already almost 9:00pm and there's no way we can make it to Best Buy in time. So, we decide that 's ok....we'll just use JP's laptop for the evening. He pulls the laptop out of his case and BAM!! The battery falls to the floor. Not a good omen. We get his laptop booted and plug it into the CAT-5 cable we strung from upstairs that feeds into the cable modem. Nothing. He decides to go up there and plug the laptop directly into the cable modem. Half way up the stairs, he laptops reboots itself on it own. Again, not a good omen. He finally gets upstairs and nothing...cable modem is dead. So...we decide that nothing else can go wrong and go to bed. In the morning we wake up and go directly to Best Buy. We buy 2 new power supplies and rush back to install them. The computers are now up and running!!! We go to hook up for a dial-up connector and I forgot the 25' phone line. All we have is a 6 foot patch cable. Damn! So, JP in all his MacGuyver skills, hacks the phone wire and splices it with the CAT-5 we have laying everywhere. So that's where we are now. No broadband, 2 blown power supplies, and time wasted. But, look at it this way....not much else can go wrong. Can it?!?
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