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PurpleYouko:
A couple of months back I lost my router, modem and three ethernet cards to a lightning strike. Luckily the surge didn't go any further than that and the computers themselves survived.
I have since added surge protection on my cable internet but even so I don't really trust it to stop a direct (or even reasonably close) hit

Numsgil:
My hard drive seems fine, but it's inaccessible at the moment (it's boot sector was a little weird and it doesn't like to be ported to another motherboard apparently).  The source code is fine.  I might be able to just install Windows 98 on the partition that's still open and run it on my other computer.

My motherboard is fried.  You can see the physical scorch marks.  It won't even turn on.  Other casualties:

Our upstairs Television
Wireless Router
Cable Modem (and it's power supply)
Our Electric Garage Door

Amazingly my monitor seems okay, even though I distinctly heard an explody type noise comming from it.

I guess I was sort of thinking I needed one of those new dual core computers anyway

Elite:
Well I hope everything turns out alright (or as alright as possible) for you Num. Hope you can retrieve your C++ source code OK too

At least you have an excuse for a shiny new computer  
In fact, that gives me a half-baked idea: Does anybody have access to a supercomputer. I'd love to see a billion-cycle sim, to see what comes out  

Greven:
Sorry to hear Num.

Remindes me when I lost 2 computers and 2 bicycles in one month a few years back... Both computers crashed (my laptop and the other one stationary) and both cycles stolen...

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