- Leaving the battery out
- Posted by FulanoDeTal on August 3rd, 2003
I have an Inspiron 3800 with a dead battery, so I just leave the
computer permanently plugged in. So far so good. But if I were to
leave town with it plugged in, and say, for some reason the power went
down for a while, does that do me any dirt? TIA.
- Posted by Norfolk Enchants on August 3rd, 2003
FulanoDeTal <FulanoDeTal@att.net> wrote in
news:5l4rivcr8u0ergtpkgqat6ju8m9lnchpqf@4ax.com:
You'd need a very long power cord.
Your computer will stop working.
Difficult to be specific without knowing what "do me any dirt"
means in English.
- Posted by FulanoDeTal on August 5th, 2003
On 3 Aug 2003 23:38:13 GMT, Norfolk Enchants <Sat@invalid.com> wrote:
Heh, heh. "Do me any dirt", as in, "die the death", "lose
everything", "kill the CMOS" ... that kind of dirt. Or, on returning
home, will I be able to crank up the power and carry on where I left
off?
- Posted by Norfolk Enchants on August 5th, 2003
FulanoDeTal <FulanoDeTal@att.net> wrote in
news:lnttivsacmj2c131v9osr64vbgo5r5437v@4ax.com:
AFAIK, a laptop PC without its main battery behaves pretty much like
a desktop PC: it has a motherboard-mounted coin cell battery to
maintain the RTC and CMOS when powered off.
- Posted by monty cantsin on August 5th, 2003
Norfolk Enchants <Sat@invalid.com> wrote in message news:<Xns93CD65A13333SATxxx@130.133.1.4>...
<< DEFINITION
(from Cambridge International Dictionary of Idioms)
do sb dirt
American, informal
to behave unfairly or badly towards someone, often without them knowing
Mack really did me dirt - he stopped me from getting my promotion. >>
<http://dictionary.cambridge.org/define.asp?key=dirt*6+0&dict=I>.
Regards,
Monty
