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Re: Software work-around for broken BIOS clock?



On Mon, Jun 10, 2002 at 12:35:56PM +0100, Karl E. Jorgensen wrote:
| On Fri, Jun 07, 2002 at 03:07:01AM -0700, ben wrote:
 
| > next time you get to pulling a battery, swab the area around the
| > contacts with alcohol and let it evaporate before you replace the it.
| > those batteries should last for at least half a year.
| 
| Cheers. Didn't know about the alcohol trick. It's probably a terrible
| waste of snaps though...

Don't use liquor, use "rubbing" alcohol.  (Sorry, I don't recal the
scientific name off the top of my head right now.  I used to know it.)

-D

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There is not a righteous man on earth
    who does what is right and never sins.
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