[sudo-discuss] sudoroom BigTV television dead?

[hol at gaskill.com]

Did anyone try turning sudo room off, waiting for 20 seconds, and 
turning it back on again??

On 2017-11-28 21:24, Jake wrote:
> On Wed, 29 Nov 2017, aaronco36 wrote:
> 
>> Jake previously wrote:
>>> it seems that the big TV that's screwed to the balcony
>>> has stopped working.  It's plugged into live AC but the
>>> power doesn't come on even when i press the power button.
>>> 
>>> i'm guessing that this is because it's dead.  i've tried to fix
>>> TVs like this before and it's just too many screws,
>>> in addition ty honting down a new transistor or whatever...
>>> so it's unlikely to happen.
>> 
>> 
>> Am at HHN, and robb just "fixed" that big TV by successfully and 
>> completely connecting the HDMI cable that was apparently "removed" by 
>> someone else. So the Hitachi really _wasn't_ dead after all.
>> 
>> Yay robb!
> 
> the TV was "fixed" last week after we discovered that it has a second, 
> hidden
> power switch which had been switched "off".  At that time the cable was 
> still
> there.
> 
> tonight it wasn't working because someone had stolen the cable.
> 
> when I set up that TV, I screwed the HDMI cable to the furniture 
> specifically
> so that nobody would take it, but i guess this is what happens in a 
> hackerspace
> where everyone has root.
> 
> -jake
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