Michael Cash wrote:

> The games or the card or something doesn't care for hyperthreading.
> Turned it off in the BIOS and everything was hunky-dory. For about
> three and a half hours into a game. That's when I was reminded that my
> apartment was wired by the same electricians who did Oliver Wendell
> Douglas' house in Hooterville. Two computers, an air conditioner, and
> the rice cooker can NOT all be on at the same time. In fact, the air
> conditioner and the microwave can't be on at the same time.
> 
> When the rice cooker kicked in and turned up the heat, WHAM! went the
> circuit breaker. There followed an incredibly heartfelt and
> considerably sustained burst of profanity that blistered the paint off
> all the cars in the parking lot outside.
> 
> Like they say, if it ain't one thing, it's something else.
> 
UPS Systems are remarkably cheap insurance against this kind of thing. 
Systems that will bridge you for about a half-hour are around $100 
bucks. Of course, if I were a trucker that already had a battery 
charger, a truck battery, and 400 watt inverter, I would just use that.

KWW