Re: error
On 12 Aug 2001, at 15:48, Irv Mullins wrote:
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Kat <gertie at PELL.NET>
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> <snipps>
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> > Your mileage may vary, but i swear *by* the battery
> > backup supplies, and i swear *at* the power companies.
>
> Which reminds me, what kind of UPS was that which survived the lightening
> strike
> recently? Sounds like a pretty good one to have.
"Blackout Buster". It was the best price and the best specs i could find. It
has a remote control interface, and is rather intelligent.
The phone line into the UPS was melted down, plastic all over the place, the
wire contacts in the phone jack on the back of the UPS were melted down,
the pine tree died, the electrical heat tape on the water pipe into House is
melted down, and one GFI breaker is toast as well. The puter is fine (it didn't
hiccup thru the whole stormy day), so is the modem, and the audio/video
equipment. I now have the phone line run thru another MOV arrestor block.
For times when the power is out over 5 minutes, i have a separate
continuous duty invertor on a deep discharge battery good for 10 hrs, and a
baby generator for longer times of power outages. To me, it's just foolhardy
to use a puter without being able to supply your own electricity for at least
the time it takes to execute a controlled shutdown. Even if you don't mind
losing all the code you just wrote since the last save, and the data files, the
MS OSs will surely wipe themselves out when they run scandisk and trash
the open files when you reboot. And i prefer to keep Tiggr online all the time,
some people have come to expect her to be there, so i place a premium on
reliability. There was an animated discussion the other night about just *how*
alive she is, and the definitions of such words as "alive" and "program", and
she participated in the discussion, in her own defense. Under those
conditions, one could think of the UPS as a life support system, eh?
Kat
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