On Wed, 17 Jan 2007 00:00:45 +0000, Peter Humphrey wrote:

> > Back to your situation, however.  It's not electrical spikes from
> > either the power or whatever broadband you have killing everything,
> > right?  Your story just sounded too familiar.  
> 
> 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.

I now have to create my own failures in software :)


-- 
Neil Bothwick

Windows Multitasking - screwing up several things at once