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Pedal-powered PC zapped — villagers wait to go wireless<\/a><\/p>\n

A power surge at 3 a.m. Tuesday in the team’s makeshift lab in Vientiane, the Laotian capital, did in the drives that were being used to program the little Jhai Computer. It trashed an entire week’s worth of programming and corrupted the computer itself.<\/bq><\/p>\n

After a powe surge zapped 2 harddisks, in a remote village in Lao, it seems the Jhai PC project has been postponed until after the Monsoon…..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Pedal-powered PC zapped — villagers wait to go wireless A power surge at 3 a.m. Tuesday in the team’s makeshift lab in Vientiane, the Laotian capital, did in the drives that were being used to program the little Jhai Computer. It trashed an entire week’s worth of programming and corrupted the computer itself. 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