OT: Hardware troubleshooting

[Henry Spencer]

On Tue, 9 Aug 2005, Francois Ouellette wrote:
> > I also don't expect to get power supplies for under $100 most of the
> > time.
> 
> Waste of money!
> I'd rather buy two at $25 and keep one as a spare!

Not a waste of money.  The biggest problem with cheap power supplies is
not that they die, but that sometimes they're flakey, and make other
things misbehave in subtle ways.  It's the wrong place to pinch pennies.

                                                          Henry Spencer
                                                       henry-lqW1N6Cllo0sV2N9l4h3zg at public.gmane.org

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