[You know what, sure, let's put it in the library. Alhaitham practically lives here now.
He's actually working on figuring out these dvds, checking out the boxes and how the player works. He wonders if he can unplug cables to see what parts they control...]
[There are many of them who practically live here now -- it takes Katan more time to get here, considering he decided to go change first and then drop by the pool; he arrives carrying buckets and mops and some cleaning rags and a whole host of cleaning agents. Seeing someone already occupying the space, he puts things down near the entrance for the moment.]
... I would take care with pulling the plug on machines or otherwise rebooting them, even if it is to test them. We did try restarting one of the computers, and it wiped traces of not only some odd files we were looking at on most of the other computers, but even any files we were trying to save.
[Well, the files may not have been because of the shutdown; it could be that the library itself just doesn't like to store anything in an orderly fashion. Evil library realst....
The sign cautioning against shutting down the one particular computer is still there, with its large neat letters. It's probably inferrable by now who (or multiple whoms) put that sign there.]
They're all at least networked, and that may be why they can affect each other.
That said, I'm not sure why only this one was unaffected by the general wipe. It's also the one that sent the initial message that we then heard voiced on the night we were all locked in here.
[It's also the one with the pretty blue wallpaper, so at least it's easy to tell it apart from the rest even if you can't read the sign...... fun for the whole family and also anyone illiterate who might wander into the library for whatever reason.]
My theory is that whatever is affecting this computer can expand and contract through the network depending on either its own will or the commands it's given, or some other interaction.
I haven't been able to reproduce our initial findings, though.
It may not even need that much. The boxes for the recordings McGillis was looking at changed on their own. It seems unlikely they were swapped out by someone without being noticed.
[Not impossible, but given everything else that's happened the past few days?
Logic is out the window in this place. And he hates it.] Right now we'll simply need to keep our own records as detailed as possible and hope they won't be modified.
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He's actually working on figuring out these dvds, checking out the boxes and how the player works. He wonders if he can unplug cables to see what parts they control...]
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... I would take care with pulling the plug on machines or otherwise rebooting them, even if it is to test them. We did try restarting one of the computers, and it wiped traces of not only some odd files we were looking at on most of the other computers, but even any files we were trying to save.
[Well, the files may not have been because of the shutdown; it could be that the library itself just doesn't like to store anything in an orderly fashion. Evil library realst....
The sign cautioning against shutting down the one particular computer is still there, with its large neat letters. It's probably inferrable by now who (or multiple whoms) put that sign there.]
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[He just figures if Katan is cautioning him that he hasn't actually tested what the power set-up here is]
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That said, I'm not sure why only this one was unaffected by the general wipe. It's also the one that sent the initial message that we then heard voiced on the night we were all locked in here.
[It's also the one with the pretty blue wallpaper, so at least it's easy to tell it apart from the rest even if you can't read the sign...... fun for the whole family and also anyone illiterate who might wander into the library for whatever reason.]
My theory is that whatever is affecting this computer can expand and contract through the network depending on either its own will or the commands it's given, or some other interaction.
I haven't been able to reproduce our initial findings, though.
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[Not impossible, but given everything else that's happened the past few days?
Logic is out the window in this place. And he hates it.] Right now we'll simply need to keep our own records as detailed as possible and hope they won't be modified.