Because $HOME/bin is in the path? I always put stuff in $HOME/bin, $HOME/opt, $HOME/etc, etc. if its something that would work equally well mounted somewhere else. In this case it would just require a Linux with VirtualBox installed.
> My current is very strong at times, and we can work better without the batteries, as the Aurora seems to neutralize and augment our batteries alternately, making current too strong at times for our relay magnets
Fascinating indeed. I wonder exactly what kind of impact a similar storm would have today.
I would expect a Carrington sized event to fry all the satellites in orbit. The damage from no GPS for several years would probably be in the hundreds of billions. There is a good chance that anything attached to an antenna or power lines would also be fried. I doubt if surge protectors would do any good. Personally I would pack my computers in metal boxes, unplug all my appliances and maybe even turn off my house at the entrance box. Then I would go outside and watch the display.
The saving grace is that we would have several days warning.
The bummer is that, depending where you live, there is a good chance that even if you preserved your electronics, you wouldn't have any mains current to run them for a long, long time. I would be more worried about rushing to Walmart and stocking up on canned goods and bottled water before anyone else figured out what was about to happen.
Very correct.I think in case of a mass electricity failure across the world. Without water supply, fuel and other energy resources to transport food, medicine and other essential supplies.
More than protecting your electronic gear, the struggle is likely to be for food and other emergency resources.
I am sure there will mass riots and mafia scale entities controlling resources critical to survival. Besides 2/3rd will be dead in quick time anyway. Nobody has every survived without water or food.
Trust me in a situation of that order, you must be worried about converting your home into a food and water facility rather than worrying about electronics.
The TLDR is that it'd be really bad, but I encourage you to read it -- it's pretty fascinating, given that geomagnetic storms of an intensity great enough to take the first world off the electrical grid for a few years isn't just geologically common, it's historically common.
I'm a long time Debian user and always use apt-get, but I just used the USS for the first time to buy Sword & Sworcery to have something to play for the holiday. Painless purchase and one click installation.
Chose that game after seeing it in the Steam client, but wasn't able to buy it for Linux there.
As the first couple of comments on that page says, it's a high chance that this is due to problems with power management in the open-source Radeon driver.
I've been running Debian and Ubuntu on lots of different laptops the last fifteen years, and only ever had problems with overheating on laptops with AMD/ATI graphics and the Radeon driver. If the graphics chip is current enough, installing the proprietary Catalyst driver should fix the problem.
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