From: waltdnes@waltdnes.org
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] "Copying" between hard drives potential newbie question
Date: Tue, 6 Sep 2005 21:08:20 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050907010820.GB26857@waltdnes.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050901183150.342efad1@chi.speakeasy.net>
On Thu, Sep 01, 2005 at 06:31:50PM -0700, Bob Sanders wrote
> > 1. Beat head on wall for not thinking to buy a UPS.
>
> Most UPSs below about US$400 are junk. You'd be served just as well
> with a decent surge suppressor power strip. Don't waste your money
> on a UPS.
Not if all you want is to give your home system 5 minutes to shut down
in a power failure, or to handle the occasional 30-second outage, of
which my area seems to have more than its fair share. The saying about
"Horses for courses" is especially true here. I don't get business DSL
with a horrendeously expensive SLA for my home ADSL service either.
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Walter Dnes <waltdnes@waltdnes.org>
My musings on technology and security at http://tech_sec.blog.ca
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-09-07 1:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-09-01 21:36 [gentoo-user] "Copying" between hard drives potential newbie question Stuart Howard
2005-09-01 21:50 ` John Jolet
2005-09-01 23:04 ` Neil Bothwick
2005-09-01 23:06 ` John Jolet
2005-09-01 23:16 ` Ben Blount
2005-09-01 23:32 ` John Jolet
2005-09-01 23:33 ` Holly Bostick
2005-09-02 10:09 ` Harald Arnesen
2005-09-01 23:35 ` Neil Bothwick
2005-09-02 0:05 ` Stuart Howard
2005-09-02 1:31 ` Bob Sanders
2005-09-07 1:08 ` waltdnes [this message]
2005-09-07 15:49 ` Matthias Bethke
2005-09-10 18:13 ` [gentoo-user] "Copying" between hard drives potential newbie question ----- > Disk image post Stuart Howard
2005-09-12 14:53 ` Michael Kintzios
2005-09-12 16:26 ` Michael W. Holdeman
2005-09-02 6:23 ` [gentoo-user] "Copying" between hard drives potential newbie question Frank Schafer
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