Kid Makes Computers Go Haywire&#63

i have several stories regarding people and strange things with computers/electronics.

#1 i had a 486 that with would not load doom when my uncle in the room. he loved to play it but had to have someone else start the game for him because the computer would not start the game with him in the room.


same got when i put windows 95 on it. the OS would not load with my uncle in the room.

that was my moms brother.

#2 my dad can not wear digital watches because after a few weeks they go haywire. he has to use batty powered gear driven watches. he wore his military watch for 20 years before my i got him a nice watch that wouldn't stop working on him.


#3 i been working with computers since i was 14 now 25. when i turned 18 i got my first real job doing computer repair. then later moved to networking ect.

they still would have me go down to the work bench to " touch the computers" while i was working there i became known for the magic touch. PC wouldn't boot so i would touch the motherboard, focus on the touching the chips. like chipset back before they had heatsinks . they would boot just fine. i worked with some really good techs and it would dive them crazy that all i would have to touch it and it would boot.


i do believe that electronics can respond to people electro magnetic fields. actually i am 100% positive of it.
 
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The movie Powder comes to mind...
 
Yeah,
Fingering things tend to turn em on..

pfft, where have you been Lol
 
Ockie said:
I have that whole street light problem the article mentions of. When I'm thinking in deep thought or something is bothering me, the lights would turn off above me when I'm driving. A lot of friends and family thought it was a bunch of bullcrap until they took a drive with me during the night. Does't happen all the time, but enough that it takes notice.... on a typical occurence it can happen to 3 or more lights I drive past in diffrent areas.
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sabrewolf732 said:
Same. Street lights are always going off and on with me, like you nobody believed me till they take a drive with me
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Street lights do have circuits to shut themselves off if the bulb overheats. At my parents neighborhood, one of the streetlights would shut off once an hour or two during the summer.
I am more inclined to believe that you live in an area with a lot of street lights, and out of sheer numbers, its likely that this phenomenon is mere coincidence in your cases. Who knows, maybe there is a lot of bulbs that need replacing in your area?
 
Reading these posts reminded me of two other 'odd' happenings.

After doing maintence on unit-record equipment, I got into computer operations, and then programming. At one company I was programming on an IBM System 3. I would often work on the 2nd shift after everyone ese had gone home so I could test new or updated programs, before putting them into production. That meant that I was there when the cleaning staff 'did their thing'. It became necessary for me to ask that one particular lady be kept out of the computer room if the system was running. For who knows what reason, everytime she would just step inside the door, the system would get a PROCESSOR CHECK, which would be the equivelent of a BSOD today. It got to be pretty funny, but damned frustrating too, as I could be 2 hours into a program, only to have the PROC CHK, and then have to start all over from the beginning. OH, and this one was NOT a 'babe' :D

The other is my older son. Almost every time the walks into one local Walgreens, he sets off the anti-theft alarm when he goes IN. Even odder, he never sets it off when he goes out.
 
/sigh

this is all so "dark ages" science. Are you sure this wasn't published in the 1600s?
 
Apparently the kid's name is Neo.

He tells his parents about a future war with the machines, and has also been asking them for kung fu lessons.

They think he is mad, and plan on having him committed.

Oh well. There goes humanity. So close... if only some school teacher had noticed his potential !
 
lewchenko said:
Apparently the kid's name is Neo.

He tells his parents about a future war with the machines, and has also been asking them for kung fu lessons.

They think he is mad, and plan on having him committed.

Oh well. There goes humanity. So close... if only some school teacher had noticed his potential !
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Yes, because elementary school teachers are the best at recognizing students potential:rolleyes:
 
I find that if I stay up late enough, the whole sky gets dark. Anyone who's with me notices the same thing. However, if I call up my friends in, say, India, they are unaffected.

Any scientists want to take a crack at falsifying the hypotheses put forth on this thread?
 
srangara said:
I find that if I stay up late enough, the whole sky gets dark. Anyone who's with me notices the same thing. However, if I call up my friends in, say, India, they are unaffected.

Any scientists want to take a crack at falsifying the hypotheses put forth on this thread?
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exactly

remember people, correlation is not causation.
 
RAF_OldBuzzard said:
Actually, HDDs have damned strong magnets INSIDE them. If you have an old dead HDD laying around, open it up, and you will be amazed at just how strong they are :D

Way back when dinosaurs roamed the earth, I used to do maintence on IBM unit record equipment. This is what was used before computers. All electro mechanical. Relays, wire brushes to read the holes in punch cards, a big board with holes in it that you used jumper wires to 'program' them. Stuff like that.

I had one account that had an IBM 082 sorter that would constantly jam, and chew up cards. I had call after call from the account, and spent a lot of time tweaking all of the settings, and I had that rascal working as good as, if not better than, new. I could run new cards, old raggedy cards (which wer notorious for causing jambs), and that rascal wouldn't miss a beat.

As soon at their operator, who happened to be a babe by the way, would start to run some cards, the sob would jamb. Ths went on for about 2 months, and we finally just replaced it with another one, and she never had a problem after that. What was interesting, was we put the 'possessed' one in anouther account and it never gave them a bit of trouble.

It just seemed that for one reason or another, that sorter just didn't like the babe...really weird.
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Yes i agree with you totally!! Dad had some ooolllld ibm harddrives and he let me took it apart and man did that magnet took forever to took out but I did take it out :)
 
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