<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"><base href="x-msg://1165/"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Nice photograph Catherine,<div><br></div><div>it also reminds me when lightning struck Syndal High School, blowing out one network chip on all the computers that were connected together via an ethernet cable .. yep, ye olde bus cable topology. Wish we had the good sense to take a photograph. As it was, we only had to replace the one chip. Anybody guess what computers these were?<br><div apple-content-edited="true">
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</div></div></div><br><div><div>On 29/08/2013, at 3:19 PM, Bruce Riley <<a href="mailto:BRiley@studygroup.com">BRiley@studygroup.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div lang="EN-AU" link="blue" vlink="purple" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div class="WordSection1" style="page: WordSection1; "><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); ">Hi Catherine<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); ">This reminded me of years ago of another hardware failure – the offending desktop fan had a snake inside it!<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); ">Cheers<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); ">Bruce<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); "> </span></div><div><table class="MsoNormalTable" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="0" style="width: 0cm; "><tbody><tr><td width="210" rowspan="2" valign="top" style="width: 157.5pt; border-style: solid none none; 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border: none; "></td></tr></tbody></table></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span style="font-size: 7.5pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(125, 125, 125); ">CRICOS Provider Name: Study Group Australia Pty Limited</span><span style="font-size: 7.5pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; color: rgb(125, 125, 125); "><br></span><span style="font-size: 7.5pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(125, 125, 125); ">CRICOS Provider Codes: 01682E (NSW), 01755D (QLD), 03079G (VIC), 01963G (WA)<br>CRICOS Provider Name: Taylors Institute of Advanced Studies Ltd<br>CRICOS Provider Codes: 01160J (VIC)</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); "><o:p></o:p></span></div><div><div style="border-style: solid none none; border-top-width: 1pt; border-top-color: rgb(181, 196, 223); padding: 3pt 0cm 0cm; "><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; ">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; "><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:itapps-bounces@edulists.com.au" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline; ">itapps-bounces@edulists.com.au</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>[mailto:itapps-<a href="mailto:bounces@edulists.com.au" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline; ">bounces@edulists.com.au</a>]<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>On Behalf Of<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b>Kneen, Catherine A<br><b>Sent:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Thursday, 29 August 2013 3:10 PM<br><b>To:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Year 12 IT Applications Teachers' Mailing List (<a href="mailto:itapps@edulists.com.au" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline; ">itapps@edulists.com.au</a>)<br><b>Subject:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>[Year 12 IT Apps] Hardware Failure<o:p></o:p></span></div></div></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">Looking through my notes for U4O2 reminded me of a Hardware Failure I suffered this year when a gecko short-circuited the circuit board of my air-conditioner. I’ve put on a photo of the offending (fried) gecko being held by my Dad.<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span><image005.jpg></span><o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><b><span style="color: rgb(73, 14, 111); ">Catherine Kneen</span></b><span style="color: rgb(73, 14, 111); ">|<b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b></span><span style="color: rgb(97, 99, 101); ">Maths & IT Teacher</span><b><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); "><o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><b><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); "><span><image006.gif></span><o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span style="color: rgb(97, 99, 101); ">Banksia Campus | T 9546 4144<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span><a href="http://www.keysboroughsc.vic.edu.au/" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline; ">www.keysboroughsc.vic.edu.au</a><o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><o:p> </o:p></div><p style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><b>Important -<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b>This email and any attachments may be confidential. 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