Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watcgl!kim
From: kim@watsup.waterloo.edu (T. Kim Nguyen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: No more gurus!
Message-ID: <KIM.89Dec10103234@watsup.waterloo.edu>
Date: 10 Dec 89 15:32:34 GMT
References: <1540@geocub.greco-prog.fr> <2352@jolnet.ORPK.IL.US>
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In-reply-to: swan@jolnet.ORPK.IL.US's message of 10 Dec 89 08:05:54 GMT

In article <2352@jolnet.ORPK.IL.US> swan@jolnet.ORPK.IL.US (Joel Swan)
writes: 
   In article <1540@geocub.greco-prog.fr> anthes@geocub.greco-prog.fr
   (Franklin Anthes) writes: 
   :
   :	I'm thinking of seting up amigas in remote locations, up to
   :several hundred miles away.  [wants to reboot on gurus]

   The only sure fire mehtod I can think of is by powering down and up the
   Amiga's power from a remote location.  I imagine the telephone controller
   for the X-10 power system would be the best bet.

This isn't all that bad an idea, except I'd like to point out that the
BSR X-10 system is also VERY flaky.  Our system at home reacts quite a
bit to spurious commands (noise?  someone else has a controller on the
same house setting?), and the switches often croak after a period
ranging from days to months.  Not too reliable, esp. if you want to
avoid having to go to those remote locations.
--
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