Re: [tlug] UPS

["lists" <lists@example.com>]

What OS are you using?
What software are you using?

Thanks,

Shawn

----- Original Message -----
From: "c dyer" <ccd@example.com>
To: <tlug@example.com>
Sent: Friday, January 03, 2003 2:17 AM
Subject: Re: [tlug] UPS


> On Friday 03 January 2003 13:46, lists wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm considering a UPS for my home system (FreeBSD), and was wondering if
> > anyone has any hardware/software recommendations. I've looked around a
few
> > places in Akihabara, etc., but when I ask about the software, they ask
me
> > what OS I'm running. Then of course when I tell them FreeBSD, I get that
> > blank look that we've all come to know and love.
> >
> > Any suggestions?
> >
> > Shawn
> >
>
> We use APC's UPS at work. They ship with "PowerChute" software, or some
> such BS, but we don't use that. They work pretty well until, well, they
don't.
> Ours have been with us forever, so we're pretty happy if they survive a
good
> 15-20 minutes (usually about the time an unscheduled outage takes to right
> itself). That, and the replacement batteries are only about $125 or so...
> That's about Y15,000. We've yet to change out a battery (we looked into
it),
> but we have had one go under (and since we're ghetto, we just whistled
> innocently and left the dead UPS sitting there with the still-working
ones,
> letting all the lusers think that all their porn was safe... bwahaha)
>
> -Christian
>
>
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