On or about: 07-19-06  18:57, Russell Tiedt did engage James Bradley
regarding, but not limited
to: USR-PCI "Boot>" prompt

 RT>> Well it could be a lighting strike, something similar happened to
 RT>> my original  28800 USR Sportster a few years back ...
 
 JB> $40 IC doesn't protect a three-cent fuse.

 RT> Way of  the world, ... , work of the Devil ... :-((

This time, it worked the *right* way around. 
 
 JB> Come to think about it, we did have a few lightshows around the time
 JB> mine went dumb. My AC is all on UPSes or rather good power bars, but I
 JB> may have circumvented the phone line, in order to reach a device, or
 JB> to avoid me from finding another cable...

 RT> Something I must still get myself here is a good surge protector, one

I was able to finagle a dealer-incentive deal. I took an order for two, and
kept four for myself. I
understood later, that the design uses undersized thermistors. I had one of
the same companies
UPS communicate to Linux's USB "nuts" interface, but was never
able to coheres any
functionality into it.

 RT> was on  the shopping list along with a DVD-ROM/CD-Writer, but that took
 RT> a dive when I  got a bad case of  the flu, and my lungs had a good go
 RT> at suffocating me. Now  I still owe the Doctor a few hundred Rands, but
 RT> am feeling  a whole heap better 

We takes what we can get. Glad to hear the health is better!

 RT> ... , just shy the cash to buy the above mentioned items as a
 RT> result. :-(( 

If only it would help... I see UPSes sell for ten bucks for 1400VA units.
The batteries are usually
ka-put on them, but a forty bucks - or so - worth of battery usually brings
them back to life.

I also saw a few skids of Compaq 'puters being prepared for The Congo
earlier in the day. The
guy buys 650M P3s for ten bucks a piece, and ships them over seas.



... James

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