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I was annoyed when we switched from CRT's to flat panels on our products. I kept trying to convince one of the hardware guys to give me a way to connect the CRT's high-voltage supply directly to the keyboard, under software control.
User-friendly my ass. I wanted user-lethal.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Boooring!
Power a primitive ion engine[^] with it and let it fly uncontrolledly through the office.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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Just did a "power fail" test on my UPS (to check the duration with the third monitor added) and ... it doesn't switch at all. So my UPS is currently acting like a line conditioner and space heater. 
OK, where's the stupid manual gone ...
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Never throw anything away, Griff
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How many manuals with the title 'Lawsuit Evaluation No 7' do you have?
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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Mine still works, thank god but it stopped communicating via USB with the PC a couple of months ago.
Used to have a nice little widget that displayed wattage or whatever you wanted to display.
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Guess you are having UPS and DOWNS 
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Lots of DOWNS, but the UPS part is just not there at all! 
Sadly, I've opened the box and checked the battery voltage and that's just fine and dandy - solid at 38V, just as I'd expect. So it's electronics ... with no circuit diagram, damn it.
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Never throw anything away, Griff
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At what point are you going to ignore your signature and get rid of it?
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When I'm sure I can't fix it!
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Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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I've three UPS's at home - just enough power to see if the main lines are up again in a few minutes, meanwhile, a safe shutdown and no unfortunate reboots.
Meanwhile, at work, with a over-kill Xeon system I have no UPS at all. Not that I haven't asked. The server room has some (I hope!), but if I get a bad zap it'll cost an awful lot of time to reload the system (warranties only cover your hardware, after all - and that could really be the cheap part). No - I won't buy one myself for them. If they don't care, maybe I shouldn't either. Unlike them, I have no head for business decisions.
Well - once again, the request is in the system. We'll see if US$50 is still too much for them to spend. I will not be asking again after this.
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Large power failure wiped a few weeks ago, UPS lasted 19 seconds.
Good thing I had an inverter-generator in the trailer, we were down for about an hour
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Mine started misbehaving about a year ago. I replaced it with a power strip and intended to get a replacement battery...Funny, the power hasn't failed once since then. I'm feeling lucky!
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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OriginalGriff wrote: Just did a "power fail" test on my UPS (to check the duration with the third monitor added) and
Not sure I understand that.
If you want to continue working, like for hours, when the power goes out then I suspect what you need is a full house back up generator.
If you just want time to shut down safely then you shouldn't be running extra monitors from the UPS at all. The extra drain reduces the time for a safe shutdown. And if you are away from the desk for a period of time and the power goes out then that extra time could be the time between when you loose the work and when the power comes back on.
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Most of the time when the power fails here it goes out, and come back in 30 seconds, or up to a couple of minutes. Then when it comes back, it often drops out again within the hour. That, or it goes out until repair men can find and fix the cable a tree brought down.
The idea is that I have a UPS that can sustain things long enough to ease over the short outages, shut down the NAS (because that takes a minute or more to make sure it's happy when it closes) and have enough in reserve to cope when the power comes back and every thing powers up ready for the next one.
So I don't want to shut down immediately - I want to be able to use the internet to report the problem - I want to shut down after 5 or ten minutes, and "ride out" the "aftershocks" which are always short but annoying.
My PC, monitors (so I can see what I'm doing, they don't use a lot of power), NAS, and router are the only things on the UPS (which is a 2KVA)
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Beginners will do no wrong?
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NOVICES
beginners NOVICES
do no wrong NO VICES
will I AM NOT SURE ABOUT THAT
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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You are correct - and up tomorrow...
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Oh, very good! I like that one! 
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CommitStrip OTD[^]
Yeah, I work like that sometimes ... 
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Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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I can do you one better...
The other day I found an infinite loop in something running on my physical server in the corner of my office. I only noticed it because with a few cores maxed out the office was noticeably warmer than usual when I got home at the end of the day.
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