On Wednesday 17 January 2007 09:47, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Wed, 17 Jan 2007 00:00:45 +0000, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > > > In this country the power supply system is quite civilised. > > Maybe, but not as good as it used to be. Brownouts are far too > commonplace nowadays. After moving house a few years ago, less than a > mile, I experienced random hardware failures; hard disks, motherboard, > even two 22" monitors (fortunately still in warranty). I suspected bad > power and, touch wood, everything has been reliable since fitting a UPS.
That's the first I've heard of it. Maybe I should look into a UPS for myself. > I now have to create my own failures in software :) Oh, that's the easiest part! -- Rgds Peter -- [email protected] mailing list
