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Old 11-20-2003, 06:43 PM   #1 (permalink)
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Oh, computers...

They're moody little buggers.

So I was here doing homework online. My power went out. After a little searching to find the circuit breaker, I flip my hall's power back on and come back. I reboot the computer, go back the Internet Explorer to do some homework, and all my cookies are gone. Nothing saved. Just to be sure, I checked in the system folder and... sure enough, the cookies folder was empty (except for the few generated by just opening the browser)

This wasn't a particularly big deal.

Anyhow, later I went back to play with the circuit breaker. (We're playing assassins in my residence hall, so I wanted to see if I could turn people's power OFF to lure them out of their rooms =P ) I left my computer on when I was doing this (whoops). I DID find out that I can turn OFF the hall power, in addition to just resetting it. So my computer got shut down again.

Now here's the strange part. I turned it back on, started surfing again... and my cookies were BACK.

ALL of my old cookies REAPPEARED.



I have to say, I very nearly fell off my chair when I saw that. I was all "wtf, mates?" Heh. Just thought I'd share.

Any ideas on why that might happen? Just curious, really.
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Old 11-20-2003, 06:55 PM   #2 (permalink)
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may have corrupted the disk on the first power down, second maybe fixed it

did you logon with the same account, since cookies are store per user./per domain

i hope you've all got power surge protectors
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Old 11-20-2003, 09:24 PM   #3 (permalink)
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*nod* don't cut people's power, man, it can seriously screw up their electronics if they're not smart enough to protect it. how come y'all get access to the fuse box anyway? we never did... RA's had keys and that was that!
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Old 11-21-2003, 12:15 AM   #4 (permalink)
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Dude... I would SO fucking kill you with my bare hands if you turned off my power intentionally and for no good reason. :<

Guess I should be glad that all my computers are protected by UPS's. So many pricks in this world, man.
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Old 11-21-2003, 03:45 AM   #5 (permalink)
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Forgot to mention this:

I made sure all the rooms my circuit connected to were empty before testing this.

Second, the power had already gone out to all those rooms about 10 minutes earlier, so I didn't change anything.
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Old 11-21-2003, 07:09 AM   #6 (permalink)
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You canucks <-sp? are crazy! How come we never had fun like that in school? Our campus cops would crash the gate and send in a crack squad of "consultants" to make sure no-one was traumatized by that much excitement..
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