From emschwar@mail.uccs.edu Tue Nov 3 21:43:19 PST 1998 Article: 94518 of alt.sysadmin.recovery From: "Eric The Read" Newsgroups: alt.sysadmin.recovery Subject: Re: DST... Date: 02 Nov 1998 10:53:17 -0700 Organization: someday, I suppose Lines: 16 Approved: and here's a little bit that redhead left out... [STR for 20 points] Message-ID: References: <70ug80$31s$1@client3.news.psi.net> <102998155458Rnf0.79b5@fangorn.xs4all.nl> <71b0v5$5d8$1@canoe.xcski.com> <71gja9$ehk$1@thud.internal.onramp.ca> <71iher$e72$1@ucan.foad.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: valdemar.col.hp.com Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 1.1.1.1) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Newsreader: Gnus v5.5/XEmacs 20.4 - "Emerald" Path: news1.meer.net!news3.best.com!news1.best.com!nntprelay.mathworks.com!news.sgi.com!sdd.hp.com!col.hp.com!not-for-mail Xref: news1.meer.net alt.sysadmin.recovery:94518 jeff@ucan.foad.org (Jeffrey M. Vinocur) writes: > When I got my first computer, the salesdroid made us get a surge > protector/power strip [1]. Not to protect the computer from the > oddities of the power grid, but to use as a power switch (back in > the days when people turned computers off) because it was much > cheaper to replace that than to get a power switch fixed. I picked up a UPS for $60 or so at the local computer swap meet a while back, plugged everything into it, and forgot about it. Yesterday, the power went out while I was working on my computer, and I just thought my lightbulb had burnt out. I was in shock for about 5 minutes when I figured out what had actually happened. It's so *nice* when a UPS actually does what it's supposed to. -=Eric