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...divers finally found the bodies last week, nearly 100 feet out from a boat ramp in the man-made lake stocked full of catfish. The children were still securely strapped in; with the windows shut, the car had floated slowly out into the lake as it filled with water, then flipped over and settled into the silt. When the search team finally dragged the car out, veteran diver Steve Morrow stood on the banks and cried. "There's no way to be thick skinned about something like this," he says. "When it's an accidental death you can deal with...
...stay in the car as her children plunged to their deaths. Smith -- still on 24-hour suicide watch -- made the statements in her confession, released by her lawyer to CNN. "I wanted to end my life so bad and was in my car, ready to go down that ramp into the water and I did go part way, but I stopped," CNN says she wrote. "I went again and I stopped. Then I got out of the car a nervous wreck . . . I dropped to the lowest when I allowed my children to go down that ramp into the water without...
Most adapters have a bank of indicate lights. One of these is labeled "LINK." When this indicator is on, your "entrance ramp" to the highway is intact. When LINK is off, your "entrance ramp" is severed from the network, and thus LINK light failure is usually indicative of a hardware problem...
Here's the catch. If your computer transmits data that the network finds unacceptable, a virtual "roadblock" is placed on your entrance ramp. In network parlance, this is called the "partitioning" of your data jack...
...partitioned data jack is easy to spot. The LINK light remains on, since the entrance ramp is still there. The TX light still flashes whenever the computer tries to transmit data, but such data never makes it to the network due to the "roadblock." The RX light, however, is dead--any network traffic coming into the computer is blocked, so the network adapter never sees...