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To: SIer formerly known as Joe B. who wrote (17357)	3/7/2001 2:13:02 PM
From: SE	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110652

Don't know. The lights did not flicker or anything. Have a power surge proctector...FWIW. Not a big thing, first time I recall it happening actually. Kinda like it has a mind of its own..... Many here would probably state that indeed it does!

To: SIer formerly known as Joe B. who wrote (17357)	3/7/2001 7:48:53 PM
From: Patrick Slevin	Respond to of 110652

That may have been what happened to me today, as a matter of fact. I was Long the SP Futures at 3:30 EST and whammo. The machine reset and would not come back up....at least until 4:20 EST 5 minutes after the Market closed. No fun being Long March Futures when the contracts roll to June overnight. Someone in a nearby town told me they had an outage at 3:30, same time as my glitch. However I have a building Surge Protector and two UPS in series. I do not know how it could have happened but it did. One missed trade can cost a lot more than the backup power supply does It is worse than that, really. With Windows it may be that it is not enough to be a good trader, one also must be a computer scientist; ready to repair at the drop of a hat while juggling a trade at the same time. To oversimplify, imagine a taxi driver who is a good cabbie but not a mechanic. S/he picks up passengers and the car dies. That is Windows, from time to time. You have the brakes fixed and the water pump blows up. The shop repairs the water pump and the next thing is, the car is on a flatbed to AAMCO for Transmission problems. I sometimes wonder how many people at Microsoft had been busy working on code while the price of MSFT was cracking. I hope quite a few, it would go a long way towards explaining my new taxi's problems.