Looking at what the website says, i would call it electrical fire, and not care about what device was connected to the other end. If you overload the wiring in the wall, you have this type of situation, and you can do that with any electrical device. The power supplies in PCs are the switching type, they contain no reduction coils, if they break, they generally just go up in smoke of silently stop working, it would be an unusual event for a powersupply like that to short-out upon failure. Now note, we are told a (computer wire) it could be a laptop, with a powersupply that has a reduction coil, and that does produce a fair amount of heat. That type of powersupply would be prone 50/50% to short-out upon failure, causing a cascade effect, now add the penny on the fusebox .... The recommendations on the thread are valid, but i would seriously question the accuracy of the report in the first place.
Cheers Szemir On December 7, 2004 17:59, Jason Louie wrote: > http://www.canada.com/calgary/globaltv/story.html?id=b5e8686f-90e6-406e-83b >7-b6efbbd340cb > > In today's news there was a fire in Marda Loop that was started by a > computer wire over heating. I know that many people on the list have > servers at home running 24/7. My question is what messures can be > done to increase the safety of servers. > > Things that I've done, (as well as everyone should do,) is: > > - Make sure that the server is not sitting on the bare floor in case > of flooding, (my servers are in the basement.) > - The computers are far enough apart that the computers would not fed > off each other's heat. > - Monitors are turned off. > - Another is not having various debris sitting on the computer, the > monitor or preventing ventilation to the systems. > - Things that could be done, (but not for a server,) is turning off > the computer when not in use. > - Not having octopii electrical outlets, (having over a dozen > computers fed by a single outlet would not be very safe.) > > > What other messures can be taken to increase the safety of unattended > computing? > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > **Please remove these lines when replying _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
