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 1EE9vZ-0001Mz-BE for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 10 Sep 2005 18:18:13 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j8AIDE9w007906; Sat, 10 Sep 2005 18:13:14 GMT Received: from nproxy.gmail.com (nproxy.gmail.com [64.233.182.200]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j8AI90bn018754 for ; Sat, 10 Sep 2005 18:09:00 GMT Received: by nproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id g2so358883nfe for ; Sat, 10 Sep 2005 11:13:04 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=Kun4EQWfH5eTYA590bMSKI9IbgfhKuaUx3Nk1jKwGGYDEeEGqCLiyobuyQR02vU4KpmxqsqEylAej3rVFyBDVnTL/gFpp5DY3sfUGpmeafxh2m0DkXzPTA9/9zEMOzlWOx6vDvq5VLJv5UxUsOwW79/8Hys4YH7STefZmdT72Ao= Received: by 10.48.161.8 with SMTP id j8mr28088nfe; Sat, 10 Sep 2005 11:13:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.48.144.9 with HTTP; Sat, 10 Sep 2005 11:13:04 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Sat, 10 Sep 2005 20:13:04 +0200 From: Stuart Howard To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] "Copying" between hard drives potential newbie question ----- > Disk image post In-Reply-To: <20050907154906.GA19824@huxley.linguistik.uni-erlangen.de> 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=ISO-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline References: <20050902000421.78407d4b@hactar.digimed.co.uk> <200509011806.38610.john@jolet.net> <20050902003522.304b51bc@hactar.digimed.co.uk> <20050901183150.342efad1@chi.speakeasy.net> <20050907010820.GB26857@waltdnes.org> <20050907154906.GA19824@huxley.linguistik.uni-erlangen.de> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by robin.gentoo.org id j8AI90bn018754 X-Archives-Salt: 2886c29c-357c-4bfc-a3df-24fce67f9acb X-Archives-Hash: d6e98e0491ee69433a9bbc33289aaf9e In case you missed it On 9/7/05, Matthias Bethke wrote: > Hi waltdnes, > on Tuesday, 2005-09-06 at 21:08:20, you wrote: > > > 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. > > Oh yes, it depends very much on the grid in your area. > I lived in the Philippines for a while where brownouts are a very common > thing---usually, you get a UPS "free" there when you buy a computer. > It's really no fun without one, and for what they have to do the cheap > lil things work very well. Their lead accus don't usually last more than > a year, but then you just get a new one for $5 or so and you're set for > another year. In Germany OTOH, hardly anybody has one, and people still > get uptimes of over a year. > > regards > Matthias > -- > I prefer encrypted and signed messages. KeyID: 90CF8389 > Fingerprint: 8E 1F 10 81 A4 66 29 46 B9 8A B9 E2 09 9F 3B 91 > > > -- "There are 10 types of people in this world: those who understand binary, those who don't" --Unknown -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list