RE: tlug: UPS

[Scott Stone <sstone@example.com>]

On Fri, 10 Apr 1998, Jonathan Byrne--3Web wrote:

> >You know, a UPS is in some ways a lot like a puppy.  At least, they both
> >seem to strongly dislike vacuum cleaners... 2 seconds of vacuuming is all
> 
> Hehheh.  What a nice, heartwarming story to come back to after spending 6
> hours out in the field flogging modems at access points (most of that time
> was spent commuting) :-)
> 
> >It was worse even than the time in the USA office when someone plugged the
> >fridge into the same UPS as the router and the hub... and of course the
> >marketing people who'd plug their space heaters into their UPSes and then
> >come screaming at me, "Why does my computer keep crashing??"...
> 
> 
> Ah, yes, those lovely Utah winters that require a space heater in the
> office.  If it got that cold here, I'd want a UPS for my space heater. too.
> And of course, we don't want the office beer getting cold in summer, so we
> probably really need one for the fridge, too :-)

you mean, you don't want the office beer getting WARM in the summer,
right?

Incidentally it's not just utah winters that require space heaters in the
office.  There's no less than 5 of them in this office here in Japan.
Then again, these people are kind of weird, they like the thermostat up at
27 or 28 degrees celsius..

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Scott M. Stone <sstone@example.com, sstone@example.com>
               <sstone@example.com>
Linux Developer/Systems Administrator for Pacific HiTech, Inc. 
http://www.pht.com		http://armadillo.pht.co.jp
http://www.pht.co.jp	        http://www.turbolinux.com


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