hardware issue -- update

[dep]

quoth Stuart Biggerstaff:
| Don't want to do that!  Sometimes it's the easiest way to invalidate
| them.
|
| Nice that your vendor will take care of this.  Not long ago I found
| the switch in an ATX case can be hard to find and replace.  I found
| several sources for AT switches, but everyone I asked said they
| didn't have ATX ones.  We wound up buying a new case--though rigging
| a doorbell button should have done the job if we really wanted to
| keep the case.

well, it's back and running and i'm using it at this very minute -- but 
much strangeness has ensued. fired up kmail and got word that the index 
files were from *a different version of kmail* and much though not all 
of my kde configuration was lunched. many config things, such as 
settings for getting mail, were fine, but all the appearance stuff, 
look and feel, was utterly gone, and a good portion of it won't come 
back. (and it is pure hell trying to find the source for mosfet's 
latest liquid theme, as well as the strange and order-critical 
instructions for configuring it afterwards. have failed in this 
regard.) opera 6.12, the last version that runs on my paid-for license, 
renewed its earlier strange behavior, segfaulting at start about five 
out of six times (for some reason, after awhile it stopped doing this 
several weeks after it started with the upgrade to suse-8.2, but now 
has started again). which is all mighty weird for a machine whose power 
supply simply failed. there was no evidence at boot of anything having 
been damaged on the drive. this is just irredeemably strange. (all the 
more so for the fact that this frigging flu *still* hasn't gone away. 
okay, okay, two thousand-mile hops in a pickup truck in the last eight 
days, plus getting shanghied into being best man at a long and 
elaborate wedding yesterday, are not conducive to speedy recovery, but 
still . . . this thing has been with me for two and a half weeks, and i 
am not getting used to it but instead want it to go the hell away!)

anyway, it *was* the power supply.

(anybody know why the kde designers are so in love with pinks and 
lavendars and purples plus really crappy "music"?)
-- 
dep

But Tonto, he was smarter, one day said "Kemo sabe,
Kiss my ass --  I bought a boat; I'm going out to sea."