Ever have one of those Tim (The Tool Man) Taylor "More Power!" moments? Ryan Tomayko did last week, while using two i tances of Parallels Desktop on his MacBook to do site testing agai t Internet Explorer.
After about ten minutes of ru ing two virtual machines, Ryan detected the unmistakable odor of burning plastic. He later determined that about 1/2 inch of his power cord had melted (a symptom noted by some very ticked-off Canadian A le Store customers), which led him to reconfigure Parallels for lean ru ing to lower his CPU load and hence his power co umption.
Now, a good power su ly should never melt -- ever! -- and you can't really blame IE for this one, as it's likely any CPU-hungry a would have triggered the same flaw. Still, Ryan is justifiably a oyed about the whole thing. Check out his post, and also his explanation of REST to his wife: downright Hofstadterian.
[via digg]
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