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A bad battery indicator wouldn't detect a failed surge suppression system; and I'm less than impressed with the ones in the APC towers I have. They may alert on a completely dead battery, but not one that's degraded to the point it can't keep your system running until it does a self-test and crashes it due to power loss.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Well,
I don't know what model you are using but I paid $700 each for the ones here in my office and both of them perform a self-test periodically and do indeed test for surge suppression and wiring faults along with the battery load test. The alarms are *really* loud... it's the only negative thing I can say about them.
Best Wishes,
-David Delaune
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I'm using consumer grade UPS's ($180 1500 mva).
Everything I'd read says not to plug a power strip into a UPS (or is it plugging a UPS into a power strip?), but in this case, I think doing so might have at least saved the hardware.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010 ----- You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010 ----- When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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But have you ever seen a ups in a room that's almost never used, like, when something bad happens and you have to go see wtf is going on?
Outa sight, outa mind...
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010 ----- You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010 ----- When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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He danced danced for a team (8)
Anagram of he danced
Hendecad
hendecad - Wiktionary
"We can't stop here - this is bat country" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
modified 26-May-20 8:35am.
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Spill the beans then.
I had nothing other than the assumption that either the start or end was an anagram, but I couldn't get anything out of either of them so perhaps that was a decoy?
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I tried them as well, and got nowhere...
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
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OriginalGriff wrote: and got nowhere
Only one letter short then, much closer than I got
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Either I have never heard of that word, or I did and I had forgotten it as quickly as I will forget it now.
Can you explain how it relates to "a team"?
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Probably Footie related - aren't there 22 players on the field at any one time?
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
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OriginalGriff wrote: aren't there 22 players on the field at any one time?
Only if they behave themselves.
Yeah, I guess 11-aside footy is a fair punt.
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Eleven is synonymous with team
"We can't stop here - this is bat country" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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Very weird, I am just reading a Sci-Fi novel where one alien race has 5 fingers on one hand and 6 on the other. Obviously they count in base 11.
So old that I did my first coding in octal via switches on a DEC PDP 8
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Do any of you guys know if there has been a movie made of any Terry Pratchett book? Not an animated film a movie with real actors.
I believe that Edie Redmayne would be great as Rincewind, and Harrison Ford would be a great Captain Vimes.
Just Wondering
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I've seen one of Going Postal (wasn't too bad - Charles Dance was appropriate as Lord Ventinari) - although technically it was a series, as there were two episodes.
And as Sander says, Good Omens was good (also a series)
TTFN - Kent
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Going Postal, Making Money and Unseen Academicals are probably my favorite DiscWorld books.
Found a version of Going Postal but it was in German, and I am mono-lingual
Thanks for the reply.
Him Shine!
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Going postal.
Good omens was meh.
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Going Postal, Making Money and Unseen Academicals are probably my favorite DiscWorld books.
Thanks for the German version of Going Postal but I am mono-lingual
Thanks for the reply.
It's good to be a Tyrant
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I'd go with MacKenzie Crook and Ralph Fiennes
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The three movies are well worth watching many times. We're always picking up new details such as in one of the movies there is a leather jacket with "Born To Rune" which references one of the other books. There's a lot of details in a lot of the scenes, my family & I enjoy trying to spot them.
Good Omens while not a Discworld novel is still really good, although I'd recommend reading the book first.
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There are apparently new "definitive" screen adaptations in the works:
Narrativia, Motive Pictures and Endeavor Content announce a brand new partnership which will bring this treasured world to screens in a series of prestige adaptations that remain absolutely faithful to Sir Terry Pratchett’s original, unique genius.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Son: "Mom, did you get the bread from Kroger's?"
Mom: "Yes."
Son: "Did you get the milk?"
Mom: "Yes."
Son: "Did you get your son?"
Mom: "I'll be there in ten."
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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