Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2001 22:44:04 -0700 From: Chip <chip@wiegand.org> To: "chat@FreeBSD.ORG" <chat@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: My cat crashed my BSD box Message-ID: <3B206624.132557A6@wiegand.org>
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Here's a new one - this happened the other night. My cat likes to sit on my desk while I'm at my computer, which is fine, most of the time. Though she usually chooses the mouse pad as her favorite place to sit down, or lay down. She'll lay right on top of the mouse, sometimes even across the keypad part of the keyboard. I gave her an unused mouse pad to sit on, but she doesn't like it. So the other night she's laying there on the mouse pad, I get up from the desk and head down stairs to take the garbage out, and I here lots of beeping. You know the kind, the computer just beeps non-stop and very fast. I head back to my computer and see the monitor is all wacked out, horizontal lines flashing up and down like mad. Totally hosed X. I tried ctrl-alt-bkspc, no good, or so I thought, since I couldn't see the text on the screen to tell what is showed. I assumed it was at the prompt and entered, blindly, su and password and reboot, still no good. I didn't want to hit the reset button, but nothing would work. I went over to another bsd box (I have 3 of 'em) and telneted into the messed up one, and was able to reboot it from there, and all was well again. Now the cat is back to laying on the mouse pad, she just pushes the mouse out of the way, or lays right on it, and purrs away. Strange. Just thought I'd share that story, something a bit lighter than the usual tech related stuff. -- Chip Wiegand Alternative Operating Systems www.wiegand.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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