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*That's* not supposed to happen.

posted by [personal profile] eftychia at 08:59pm on 2004-03-21

I went to plug in a recently-arrived computer, and I seem to have run out of power cords.

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posted by [identity profile] marnanel.livejournal.com at 06:02pm on 2004-03-21
In the UK, kettle leads and computer leads are identical (except perhaps for the fuse rating), so much so that computer leads are sometimes known as "kettle leads". Hence in your situation you'd just raid the kitchen and make your tea in the microwave until you'd bought a new cord.
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posted by [identity profile] dglenn.livejournal.com at 01:41pm on 2004-03-22
Other than computers and some audio gear (rackmount guitar effects), I haven't seen applicances with detachable cords in quite a while. I do remember when percolators and radios came with such leads, but they were always ungrounded. Are your kettles grounded or your computers ungrounded?
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posted by [identity profile] marnanel.livejournal.com at 03:01pm on 2004-03-22
Whether the kettle's earthed depends on the kettle (some have plastic bodies, some metal). All sockets are three-pin in the UK, so it doesn't make a difference either way: I'm pretty sure the earth pin on the plug is connected through to the other end of the cable, but there's obviously no requirement that the appliance should use it.

(We call it "earth" in the UK; "grounding" is just for rebellious teenagers. :) )
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posted by [identity profile] cacle.livejournal.com at 07:34pm on 2004-03-21
happiness an excuse to go shopping.
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if it's trash nite you can go shopping right now

posted by [identity profile] keith-m043.livejournal.com at 10:26pm on 2004-03-21
failing that, can you go without using your printer or your scanner till you can go out and get another cable?
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shopping?

posted by [identity profile] syntonic-comma.livejournal.com at 05:14pm on 2004-03-23
Any company computer room that's been around long enough to have any hardware turnover will have lots of these lying around spare.
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I was going to ask you how it was working...

posted by [identity profile] realinterrobang.livejournal.com at 01:16pm on 2004-03-22
I guess I don't need to, now. ;)
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Re: I was going to ask you how it was working...

posted by [identity profile] dglenn.livejournal.com at 01:37pm on 2004-03-22
I swiped the power cord from the Sun Sparc 2 that needs its /usr partition rebuilt. Then I discovered that the monitor on the test bench can't handle the video mode that box is currently set to, so I need to rearrange monitors or figure out how to get it to boot into "safe mode" (or how to change the screen resolution from the keyboard when I can't see what I'm doing).

It made a horrendous noise when I powered it on the first time, but the noise eventually stopped (and didn't happen again the next time I turned it on), so I don't know what that was about.
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How many would you like?

posted by [identity profile] still-asking.livejournal.com at 09:28pm on 2004-03-23
Five?

Ten?
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