If you don't have them, please get some universal power supplies to protect your computers against brownouts and power drops. Surge protectors are not enough. Power drops are a great way to wreck your computers. That's actually an upside of laptops. The built-in battery provides some protection against power drops, maybe even better than a UPS.

Daz doesn't care about Carrara. Even if they did, I doubt they could fix it. I'm not even sure they can keep DS going or manage their own store. It looks pretty bad right now, with new bundles full of old products and so forth. I'm hoping they can pull it together.