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[217.169.3.230]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id 69sm1838472wmp.11.2017.10.29.12.11.01 for (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Sun, 29 Oct 2017 12:11:01 -0700 (PDT) From: Mick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Alternatives to knutclient Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2017 19:11:13 +0000 Message-ID: <1868041.QUjdRgedtp@dell_xps> In-Reply-To: <59F62591.2070003@youngman.org.uk> References: <1922379.ZbMImBqxyj@dell_xps> <27a82600-717b-0076-cb75-29e67a7f4ed1@gmail.com> <59F62591.2070003@youngman.org.uk> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart2308984.OVKNBbtdEu"; micalg="pgp-sha256"; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Archives-Salt: ee11ff0f-613d-467e-aefc-057a41ec61a4 X-Archives-Hash: e212969af4b0c87beb668a277588df5e --nextPart2308984.OVKNBbtdEu Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" On Sunday, 29 October 2017 19:01:37 GMT Wols Lists wrote: > On 29/10/17 11:21, Dale wrote: > > Power failures aren't as often the past few years anyway. I could > > almost make it without a UPS BUT I do like having that extra > > protection. Mine has some serious surge protection in it plus > > brownout/over voltage protection/warning as well. While I have a fairly > > decent power supply in this rig, I didn't buy the cheapest thing out > > there, having a little extra is nice. May save my bacon one day. ;-) > > Depends where you live. Are you in the States? > > I'm in the UK and powercuts are almost unheard of AT THE MOMENT. But we > keep getting dire warnings that our generation is going down, while > demand is going up, and they are on the verge of crossing ... > > Dunno what's going to happen then, but we tend to get trips and cuts, > not brownouts, so we could be in for a nasty shock in the not too > distant future :-( > > Cheers, > Wol You may have missed it but the shocks you are talking about have already happened: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/nov/25/blackout-friday-in-central-london-as-power-cut-hits-west-end and are ongoing: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newsvideo/10020434/Terrifying-explosion-in-central-London-caught-on-camera.html BTW, perhaps in UK cities general and unpredicted power cuts are relatively rare and brownouts don't occur often. Out in the sticks the infrastructure is so neglected power cuts and brown outs can be a weekly occurrence. I just bought yet another UPS to protect my TV and media devices, having suffered catastrophic failures in the past. :-( -- Regards, Mick --nextPart2308984.OVKNBbtdEu Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. 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