From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ECobh-0007SP-SE for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 07 Sep 2005 01:20:10 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j871DkjF015845; Wed, 7 Sep 2005 01:13:46 GMT Received: from smtp.istop.com (smtp.istop.com [66.11.167.126]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j8714nGE000244 for ; Wed, 7 Sep 2005 01:04:50 GMT Received: from waltdnes.org (i216-58-10-213.cybersurf.com [216.58.10.213]) by smtp.istop.com (Postfix) with SMTP id F3C942B3C9 for ; Tue, 6 Sep 2005 21:08:56 -0400 (EDT) Received: by waltdnes.org (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Tue, 6 Sep 2005 21:08:20 -0400 From: waltdnes@waltdnes.org Date: Tue, 6 Sep 2005 21:08:20 -0400 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] "Copying" between hard drives potential newbie question Message-ID: <20050907010820.GB26857@waltdnes.org> References: <20050902000421.78407d4b@hactar.digimed.co.uk> <200509011806.38610.john@jolet.net> <20050902003522.304b51bc@hactar.digimed.co.uk> <20050901183150.342efad1@chi.speakeasy.net> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050901183150.342efad1@chi.speakeasy.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.8i X-Archives-Salt: acb3c929-63dd-4bb9-a5ef-76cd3e3874e6 X-Archives-Hash: 0d3fa6d3a236503948dc19160f2214e2 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. -- Walter Dnes My musings on technology and security at http://tech_sec.blog.ca -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list