I guess that being broke has finally cached up with me. I have a failed power supply in my main server computer that I run locally. It handles several important jobs. One of the being a counter for earthquake activity in Iceland and Canary Islands (El Hierro volcano). This allows me to see if anything is taking place, estimating number of earthquakes if anything happens. A earthquake swarm is a good sample of what this helps me with. So my server computer is close to being mission critical for me in what I am doing.
What is failing is the power supply as I did say before. The part that is failing in the power supply it self is the main fan. It is making noise and not spinning properly, suggesting it is almost dead. I also am seeing that my current motherboard suffers from the capacitor plague. It still works. But it is going to end its life span once the capacitors finally blow or just plain out die.
What do I need. A power supply that looks like this. Sadly I cannot afford it. I am going to check with my bank and see what they say, but I might be able to work something out. I do not know yet if I am going to get a deal with my bank. Buf I do it is going to increase my current money issues, since it is going to increase my payments back to the bank and therefor lower my already almost non-existent money once I have paid all my bills and debt. It is clear that my money issue are going to continue for a good while longer it seems.
The price is, EUR 41.19 or 307.10DKK, or something like this on lower price. This is the price if anyone wants to donate towards me so that I can buy this.
I cannot turn on the server computer at the moment. Since I am afraid the power supply might damage the already weakened motherboard (due to bad capacitor on it) . I am going to keep my server computer off until I can replace the power supply. Regardless if that is going to take a short or a long time. If I manage to buy a new power supply, it is going to take a few days until I can get it. The future plan for the sever computer is to get it compact and without any fans and such things if possible. Since it is not under heavy load and is only serving my internal network in several ways, including handing out local IP numbers and my IPv6 connection to the internet.
Thanks for the help.
Update 1: There is little help to get from my bank. Because I am really, really broke. This is going to be pain for me.
Blog post updated at 11:29 UTC on 30.04.2013.
Hi Jon, I am going to set up a Facebook page in the next few days which I hope will raise awareness and can get you more donations and funds coming in. I hope you come back from being Broke.
Best Regards
Ross Mayl
Thanks for this help. I am getting really tired of being broke all the time. But that is how life is for me this past days, weeks and months.
I am doing my best to work it out and I have got a solution. But that solution does not leave a lot of room for error, or a failure in this case. On top this I had to go the dentist and that cost also a lot of money. But I am going to apply for poor people help here in Denmark for that. So I can get some of the cost of going to the dentist back. I do not know if it works. But I can always try.
Page is live, the more people who like it the more aware of it people will be so visitors to this site should like the page even though they know about all this. https://www.facebook.com/HelpKeepTheJonFrimannBlogOpen
Ross Mayl