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For months now my main computer which is Microslow Winbloze XP would be mysteriously rebooted whilst I was away from it, I just put it down to some Windows updates which forced a reboot. Occasionally it would also just cut out but we do seem to get short lasting power cuts fairly often

Last week or maybe the week before (my mind forgets me sometimes), my computer just wouldn’t boot, or it would start and then just cut the power so I opened her up to operate. I then realised the computer had not been cleaned inside for about 2 years which was preventing the CPU fan from turning, yuk it was disgusting but this was surely the reason for it cutting off to save the CPU and mother board right………………….

I cleaned her out and it booted first time, all was well my baby was fixed again or so I thought. About two days later it does the same again and again, this was a sure sign my PSU (Power Supply Unit) was on it’s last legs, I’d not opened that up to clean the days before but now  I opened it up in hope of saving it with some radical cleansing but alas it did no good.

I kept forcing it to boot whilst I made back ups, pushing it to it’s limits but now my PSU rest in peace has gone to computer heaven, I just hope in my haste I didn’t crash the Hard Drives to, althought my PSU could do with the company, it’s just not the HD’s time, there twins and still young.

A friend whom works for a computer company was sending me a new PSU out, however he got a little busy and now I won’t get it until the weekend, but for the last week or two I’ve taken a self taught crash course in Linux which is on my other machines. As I think I mentioned in another blog on here, I’d used Linux before in fact the websites of SJB are on Linux servers (now Centos) but I’d only ever learned to do something as and when I needed it or I asked the server admins to take care of it, can’t do that here though so I learned the hard way and it’s been rather fun albeit time consuming.

If you considering dropping Microslow Windbloze and have no experience of Linux then try Ubuntu, it has to be the most user friendly I’ve tried. They also allow you download an ISO which when you stick on a CD and then pop into a windows machine allows you to run Ubuntu without installing it, so you can try it before installing it which is really cool.

Hopefully I’ll be back on-line properly soon. I know I’ll be moving my main system from Windows to Ubuntu soon so that will be more fun.

If you rely on Microsoft for some programs then you needn’t worry, there are two programs one emulates a Windows environment and the other allows you to install a windows partition and run it from Ubuntu like it’s just another program which is amazing.

1). Wine - http://www.winehq.org - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wine_(software)

2). Qemu - http://bellard.org/qemu - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QEMU

3). Virtual Box - http://www.virtualbox.org

Anyway, yeah I was saying….. I should have my new PSU soon, lol.

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