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Gaseous Materials
The exitement never stops! Except for pain, it does brake for pain according to the bumper sticker.
Yesterday I roll up to work about 10minutes later than I usually do, only to find all the people from my building milling around the evacuation point. As I walk past the building towards them I notice that the doors are locked down in 'DANGER/HAZARD' with the red signs and all. "That can't be good."
In the IT department here we have an FM2000 extinguisher system mounted in the two 'server' rooms. There are four cannisters of gas which is rapidly ejected into the room in the event of a fire being detected.
Unfortunatly the system doesn't differentiate between an actually fire within the server room/nearby and just some fire alarm being tripped within the building. So as soon as anyone presses a button, then BOOM, $5000 a cylinder.
So since someone decided to knock out a wall in the server room to make one big room to hold all our servers, they wanted to isolate the gas system so it didn't get triggered by any dust that got kicked up. Obviously it didn't quite go as planned as the gas actually dropped while they were trying to isolate it.
Funny stuff. Meant I had to stand around till about 1100, not being able to do much.
The other occurance was that I swapped some SDRAM that I found in a box with a mate of mine so he could build a PC for his girlfriend. What did I get in return? A silver HL2 steam package. Awesome!
He never played with it so wasnt getting anything out of it anyway. He also had the steam preload files of HL2 as well, so I could avoid having to download 3Gb or so of stuff. So I updated HL2 overnight and started it up this morning to see if it would work, it does (yay!). Then queued up HL2DM and went off to work. The awesome thing about it being a silver package is that it means I now have real editions of basically every valve title/mod every made. And that includes the upcoming Day Of Defeat Source. HUZZAH!
I don't really care about CS of any flavour, but DoD might be nice. Havn't played it since about 2001.