On Tue, Apr 10, 2007 at 04:45:06PM +0100, J.R. Seago wrote:
This morning my town had a series of small power cuts between 05·00 and 06·00 hours, these were so short that the incandescent light bulb on my desk light didn't go out, only flicker. My Computer did reboot on the first two occasions but then on the third occasion wouldn't do anything, I 'phoned the local computer repair people at around 09·00, who got back to me later in the day as they had been inundated with calls on the same matter. My computer rebooted at about 12·00, apparently others are still not re-started.
I'm not clear; did your local computer repair people do something that meant your computer was functional by 12:00, or did it just magically come back?
Having given the background here's my question, as I needed to stay in email contact with a number of people today, would it be worthwhile buying a laptop, if so which one? Morgans flyer which came this morning has Toshiba's at prices starting at £328·99. Although I seem to remember reading somewhere that Mesh laptop's fitted GNU/Linux better, anyone any suggestions, or ideas of what to avoid? I'd want toput Slackware 11 onto it.
As a cheaper solution, would perhaps a decent surge protector or even UPS maybe do what you want? I picked up a £25 Belkin UPS from eBuyer last year and it's kept my machine up through various brownouts and power outages. Of course it still doesn't protect me from my own stupidity (like the time I knocked the power button while fiddling with cables under the desk).
J.