No. I live an hour away from aimee, and in the past 2 and a half year, the power has been out a single time where I live for a couple hours due to line problems.
More display adaptor troubles. LOL.
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No. I live an hour away from aimee, and in the past 2 and a half year, the power has been out a single time where I live for a couple hours due to line problems.
aimeeandbeatles
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Well, this year alone, it's gone out several times. Maybe ... 4 or 5 times. Aren't you in a different county?
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You exagerate. I live in California. Several years ago we had rolling black outs. I was not that often, at most two or three times a week. If Nova Scotia was that bad we'd here about it in the news.
In 2009, the power has gone out 0 times, my server and router have been turned on without restarting since January 2nd.
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Most of the times, the power's only out for 2 seconds. Like when there's ice storms. Hardly anyone notices, because they don't leave their electronics on all the time. (I forgot to mention that little detail.)
Aramazd
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Wouldn't the clocks reset? Or notice that the tv/radio/computer turned off? 4 or 5 times this year sounds like BS.
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Yes, the clocks reset. That's how I tell it wasn't an update installing without my permission.
Same where I'm from, except I only suffer blackouts in the spring thunderstorm season. The lightning usually strikes the poles 20 miles from here.
Aramazd
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And no else notices?
You need an Uninterpretable Power Supply (backup battery). It won't run your PC for long, but it will allow you to shut down normally.
Not necessarily. A big town in Nova Scotia is several 1000 people. The big city is a bit over 100k. When populations are that small and that dispersed, Americans, who don't get a lot of foreign news to begin with, would never hear about anything so minor.
Aramazd
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I suppose, but 4 or 5 blackouts this year seems absurd, given that is almost as bad as the power crisis we had here.
Except we don't get that many. Like I say, I live about an hour away from Aimee in a town a fifth the size, and I've lost power here a single time in the last 2.5 years.
Aramazd
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That is one of the reasons I am skeptical.
Aimee is talking about brownouts and surges if it's only long enough to crash the computer and cause the clocks to start flashing 12:00 though. I live in a town of 50k and barely more than a stones throw from a power substation, and if I didn't have a UPS my pc would be crashed at least 20-30 times a year.
Genocidicbunny
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Or you know, just use the drivers that work fine. Thats just my opinion though.
You could live spitting distance from aimee, and it still wouldnt matter. A bad transformer or two along the line somewhere and you already have problems. Ive been in blackouts where I simply went to my neighbors place cus they still had power, and vice versa
Mobility modder is just to enable the official drivers to install on any laptop... if your laptop manufacturer doesn't update their OEM drivers for your model, you're SOL otherwise.
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We've got a rotten transformer. Cos our neighbors still had power. Birds keep hitting it.
Also, my ATI drivers haven't been updated in a while.
