-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 29 Jul 2002 9:17 pm, John Richard Smith wrote:
> This may sound a simple question but what if anything can computer > owners do, that doesn't cost an arm and a leg , to protect their > equipement from bad weather. > > Here in Milton Keynes, England we have just had the mother and father of > a thunder storm, which caused a momentary cut in power, and naturally > crashed all the running computers. > Some rebooted OK , that is after lengthy file system checks, but one > refused even after this, it got as far as "loading USB interface (USB > ohci)" , and hung. > > I'm back in , but not after some nifty failsafe rebooting. Without going to UPS (rather over the top in the United Kingdom where there's a National Grid and electricity just works) I found that a Belkin power strip, which gives you surge protection for four plugs and a phone socket - albeit redundant now with ADSL - is well worth the £25 or so you pay for it. It's one of those: <http://catalog.belkin.com/IWCatSectionView.process?IWAction=Load&Merchant_Id=&Section_Id=482> It turned out to be a worthwhile investment after a previous disaster when lightning blew the motherboard and HD on my old machine. Hmmm ... the sky over South London is looking rather turbulent, and the thermometer was reading 32C earlier. The M & F is evidently the multicoloured blob between Norwich and Birmingham in: http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/ukweather/radar.shtml Alastair - -- Alastair Scott (London, United Kingdom) http://www.unmetered.org.uk/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE9RaWRXzGCRjP1DsMRAgxmAJ450G1oRgvSIA6yInC+tzybW5j//ACaAqYq XQas46GA+lweJ0yOo2N3wX0= =bC+G -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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