ups

[Stephen Partington]

On a machine that old you would have a better and smoother experience just
converting it to a VM. There are some good tools to convert to KVM/Quemu
from raw disk.


On Sun, Oct 11, 2015 at 11:34 PM, Steve Litt <slitt at troubleshooters.com>
wrote:

> LOL,
>
> Sitting right next to me, I have a 1997 Pentium II that's my Windows
> machine. I fire it up every couple months to do a little Micrografx
> Windows Draw. It uses my Linux desktop's data directories via Samba.
>
> SteveT
>
>
> On Mon, 12 Oct 2015 00:54:09 -0400
> Michael Havens <bmike1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > you have 12 year old computers?
> >
> > On Mon, Oct 12, 2015 at 12:32 AM, Keith Smith
> > <techlists at phpcoderusa.com> wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > I've been using isobar since about 1993.  I believe that is why I
> > > have not had any equipment failure.  13 or 14 years ago the
> > > transformer attached to where I was living exploded.  I was sure it
> > > cooked my computer.  Nothing happened to my computer.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> http://www.amazon.com/s/?ie=UTF8&keywords=isobar&tag=googhydr-20&index=aps&hvadid=84109345576&hvpos=1t1&hvexid=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=6200554956233029823&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=b&hvdev=c&ref=pd_sl_2hv0pgf2to_b_p2
> > >
> > > Of course it is not going to keep your computer running when the
> > > power goes out.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > On 2015-10-11 16:11, Steve Litt wrote:
> > >
> > >> On Sun, 11 Oct 2015 13:39:53 -0400
> > >> Michael Havens <bmike1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >>
> > >> I finally broke down and bought a UPS:( I got a 650 VA for $57. The
> > >>> 550 VA was $55 so I figured it was worth the 2 extra dollars. Now
> > >>> I don't have to worry about frying my computer during one of the
> > >>> many lightening storms here in gainesville!
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >> That's a great price!
> > >>
> > >> The benefit of a UPS isn't preventing frying in a lightning storm.
> > >> A simple surge protector does a better job of that. A UPS prevents
> > >> your computer frying during a brownout or severel rapid
> > >> transitions between power and no power. It also gives you a
> > >> reasonable timeframe to perform an orderly shutdown, and in cases
> > >> of > 1minute power outages, which describes over half of our power
> > >> outages here in Seminole County Florida, you just keep computing.
> > >>
> > >> Another great thing about a UPS is when your printer starts up and
> > >> all the lights dim and your ceiling fan slows down,  (Brother
> > >> MFC8810dw prints suck *a lot* of current), you hear your UPS
> > >> click, but otherwise there's no sign of the undervolt. I hate to
> > >> thing what would happen to my box if I didn't have a UPS.
> > >>
> > >> I wouldn't be caught dead without a UPS on my daily driver or my
> > >> whole-house pfSense router/firewall.
> > >>
> > >> SteveT
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A mouse trap, placed on top of your alarm clock, will prevent you from
rolling over and going back to sleep after you hit the snooze button.

Stephen
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