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Posted by d_24 at 15:26, 26th Mar |
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Blackout
Was it just around Lamond Drive that there was a loss of electric today about 3-3:30?
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Posted by rob 'f*ck off' wine boy at 15:29, 26th Mar |
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Nah hit market street too. Congrats on posting about it almost instantaneously :P
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Posted by queen of scots at 15:31, 26th Mar |
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Posted by munchingfoo at 15:33, 26th Mar |
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Anyone phone scottish power's helpline? How amazing is it? It's completely automated and can understand (and say back in its own voice) my address. If only all automated systems could be so good!
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Posted by orudge at 15:37, 26th Mar |
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Posted by Power_Metal_Dom at 15:58, 26th Mar |
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Ah I was wondering what happened to my Webmail
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Posted by Spiryt at 16:15, 26th Mar |
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Damn that was scary! I thought I lost my lab report... I love auto-recovery 
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Posted by Power_Metal_Dom at 16:16, 26th Mar |
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I lost my XBL game. I love CoD4
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Posted by sqril at 16:17, 26th Mar |
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anyone know if the uni computers are working and if we can access files on saved on them? I have a couple of thingds i was working on when the power wen tout and need to get them onto USB or something and i dont want to be bothered going all the way into town if the computers are still down
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Posted by Unregistered User balls at 15:28, 26th Mar |
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Nope! All throughout town it seemed to be!
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Posted by nutzdiemachtluke at 21:24, 26th Mar |
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not just cross town - i think it was the whole area, was definitely out as far away as cupar...
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Posted by lts2 at 21:30, 26th Mar |
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I was in Leuchars station and the lack of power was much the same, except with an added alarm for the whole duration
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Posted by Tigger at 22:32, 26th Mar |
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Blame the Bell street workmen. they probably cut through a power line, or something.
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Posted by orudge at 22:49, 26th Mar |
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You'd think they could isolate the supply within St Andrews then, if that was the case. There have been times in the past where one half of the town has had power and the other half not, so I imagine the problem may have been something bigger than a workman cutting through a wire. (Unless, of course, it was a workman somewhere further along the power line near Cupar or something...)
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Posted by Hennessy at 23:26, 26th Mar |
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Has anyone watched the tv series "jericho"? I felt myself wishing this was the start of something similiar. In fact I was testing my baseball bat for smash and grab potential, and peering out to the sky above edinburgh for even a small mushroom cloud.
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Posted by Tigger at 23:41, 26th Mar |
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i was joking about the workmen, they have restricted themselves to flood damage and water supply termination.
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Posted by Unregistered User atckid at 00:37, 27th Mar |
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. . .apparently it was due to some kind of high power anti-missile (artillery?) laser which was being tested at leuchars; something to do with non-chemical lasers?
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Posted by theshadowhost at 11:35, 27th Mar |
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Blackout - awesome
The best thing about the blackout was that everyones computers turned off ( unless battery powered) this meant that their torrents stopped downloading and once the power came back on it meant i could play xbox live without getting DC'ed due to heavy network traffic in the Lamond drive area. It makes me want to trip and reset the power every day!
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Posted by Jono at 12:42, 27th Mar |
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Shows how insanely reliant we are on electricity for our lives. Kind of puts things into perspective really when every building has to evacuate just because there's no power!
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Posted by munchingfoo at 13:00, 27th Mar |
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Quoting theshadowhost from 11:35, 27th Mar 2008The best thing about the blackout was that everyones computers turned off ( unless battery powered) this meant that their torrents stopped downloading and once the power came back on it meant i could play xbox live without getting DC'ed due to heavy network traffic in the Lamond drive area. It makes me want to trip and reset the power every day! I noticed this too. Was able to pull of crazy headshots from a million miles away and got best player on a 50 man server. Its a bit shit that most of that skill is down to network speed.
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