Hardware trouble? Me? Or ...??

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Sat, 2008-08-09 at 16:07 +0000, Beartooth wrote:
> The young friend was here yesterday evening, and concluded 
> immediately that the power supply was dead. Maybe it did arc
> somewhere; odd that that hasn't happened before.

Not at all. Power supplies can die after a while like everything else,
even when on a UPS. Silly question: is your UPS properly grounded?

>         The dead power supply is a type we can't get around here.

If you mean the brand then I wouldn't worry about it. They are all
pretty standard (and are also liable to fail after a few years).

poc