RE: cold laptops are no good & reiser rules


Subject: RE: cold laptops are no good & reiser rules
From: Jan Zumwalt (jwzumwalt@neatinfo.com)
Date: Mon Mar 10 2003 - 12:03:54 AKST


It's a good practice to never plug anything electrical in that has been
moved from a cold place to a warm environment. Condensation forms on the
circuit boards and grease has minute water in it and can freeze solid as
well :)

Jan Zumwalt

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From: aklug-bounce@aklug.org [mailto:aklug-bounce@aklug.org]On Behalf Of
Damien Hull
Sent: Saturday, March 08, 2003 11:46 AM
To: aklug@aklug.org
Subject: cold laptops are no good & reiser rules

Had a bit of a scare this morning. Thought I'd share my experience so no
one else goes through the same thing.

I forgot my laptop in the car last night so it was a little cold when I
hit the on button. It turns out that cold laptops don't work well. After
opening a few applications the drive started making noise and the system
froze. First thing that popped into my head was that the drive was going
bad.

During a reboot it tells me that somethings wrong with the drive and
stops. Again I'm thinking that my drive just died on me.

After a couple of reboots the screen looks brighter and everything
works. Guess it needed to worm up a bit. From now on I'm only booting
worm laptops.

Thank God for reiser fs. Without that I'd be reinstalling Debian.

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