From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1H77Py-0004DB-JC for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 17 Jan 2007 09:49:19 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with SMTP id l0H9lMfK028613; Wed, 17 Jan 2007 09:47:22 GMT Received: from desiato.digimed.co.uk (82-69-83-178.dsl.in-addr.zen.co.uk [82.69.83.178]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l0H9lLjG013541 for ; Wed, 17 Jan 2007 09:47:21 GMT Received: from krikkit.digimed.co.uk (krikkit.digimed.co.uk [192.168.1.3]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by desiato.digimed.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 52AC6928B8 for ; Wed, 17 Jan 2007 09:47:20 +0000 (GMT) Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2007 09:47:13 +0000 From: Neil Bothwick To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: What went wrong Message-ID: <20070117094713.1a466944@krikkit.digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <200701170000.46376.prh@gotadsl.co.uk> References: <200701161712.44900.prh@gotadsl.co.uk> <200701170000.46376.prh@gotadsl.co.uk> Organization: Digital Media Production X-Mailer: Claws Mail 2.7.0 (GTK+ 2.10.6; powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu) X-GPG-Fingerprint: 7260 0F33 97EC 2F1E 7667 FE37 BA6E 1A97 4375 1903 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary=Sig_bYQRRZpSBaZBXrXfaDJBSZe; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=PGP-SHA1 X-Archives-Salt: 031d00d6-e7fa-4206-991d-1acdaf12a0ff X-Archives-Hash: d7fa7fdb2726c78482e89c8b78208f66 --Sig_bYQRRZpSBaZBXrXfaDJBSZe Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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. =20 >=20 > 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 :) --=20 Neil Bothwick Windows Multitasking - screwing up several things at once --Sig_bYQRRZpSBaZBXrXfaDJBSZe Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFFrfCnum4al0N1GQMRAtlDAKDD2onolkUtfQRvC7/4fz0JwT+3eQCfVoi0 qMpm6llzHQ4F9MHERXxx1Vc= =4ssQ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_bYQRRZpSBaZBXrXfaDJBSZe-- -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list