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62chevy
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« Thread Started on Jan 24, 2011, 12:02pm » | |
I hate brown outs! Back in Michigan I may of had one or two a year but lately here in West Virginia it's two or three a week. Next payday I'm getting three UPS. Grrrr!!!!!! One for the cable and lcd tv, my computer and one for my wifes and grandkids computers. 
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« Reply #1 on Jan 24, 2011, 2:35pm » | |
Yeah bad power can be pretty frustrating... not to mention expensive if the strain is too much for something delicate.
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« Reply #2 on Jan 24, 2011, 11:39pm » | |
That totally sucks. Brownouts are not good, especially for computers. Is it particularly stormy or are they happening for no apparent reason?
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« Reply #3 on Jan 26, 2011, 1:45pm » | |
Yeah brown outs are pretty bad, but you should try having 60k upload speed  These nice shiny 1.1 images are taking forever.
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« Reply #4 on Jan 26, 2011, 1:51pm » | |
Jan 24, 2011, 11:39pm, scifidude79 wrote:| That totally sucks. Brownouts are not good, especially for computers. Is it particularly stormy or are they happening for no apparent reason? |
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Who knows what causes them?!? The weather is fine.
@ Anthony I feel your pain  Growing pains are great it's the shrinking pains that suck.
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« Reply #5 on Jan 26, 2011, 1:54pm » | |
I will have the torrents built up with a web seed from the website. I will also probably be driving 50 miles in a snow storm, to go get them seeded by a friend in the city. <-- Yeah really I am not kidding. In other news, about 7 hours till 1.1 images are available.
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« Reply #6 on Jan 26, 2011, 2:16pm » | |
Jan 26, 2011, 1:45pm, Anthony Nordquist wrote:| but you should try having 60k upload speed These nice shiny 1.1 images are taking forever. |
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I downloaded Mandriva 2010.0 on dialup once. I think I had about an average speed of 4 KB per second. It took several days, downloading about 9 or 10 hours a day (thank goodness for resumable downloads.) I'm just glad I can now download that same distro in a little over an hour. To some people, that's probably slow but to me it's paradise. 
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| | Re: I need to vent!
« Reply #7 on Jan 26, 2011, 2:17pm » | |
Great. Put up the torrents and I'll leave them running.
Although I'll keep the DVD for new installs; keep on with # aptitude update && aptitude dist-upgrade
(Nice to see that the aptitude people gave up on the safe-upgrade and full-upgrade insistence.)
@62chevy: a UPS is a beautiful thing to see during brown-outs or total-outs.
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« Reply #8 on Jan 26, 2011, 2:26pm » | |
Jan 26, 2011, 2:17pm, Richard wrote:Great. Put up the torrents and I'll leave them running.
Although I'll keep the DVD for new installs; keep on with # aptitude update && aptitude dist-upgrade
(Nice to see that the aptitude people gave up on the safe-upgrade and full-upgrade insistence.)
@62chevy: a UPS is a beautiful thing to see during brown-outs or total-outs. |
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No kidding and the $200 bucks will be worth it in the long run.
@ Anthony as soon as I see them they will be put on a torrent.
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« Reply #9 on Jan 26, 2011, 2:33pm » | |
Gotta get 1.1 out there so people can admire all of Richards and my hard work on the user manual 
Edit: Richard did an awesome job with formatting if you havn't looked at it recently, I highly recommend it.
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