X-no-Archive:yes
I'll second that motion. When I lived and worked in OKC (in a home that was
taken out by that tornado last summer), thunderstorms would surprise us with
brief interruptions in our power. My employer had these small "UPSs" on all
PCs. During thunderstorm season, we would learn the hard way that one or two
of these units were now "large heavy warm power strips". I had recommended
that employees be required at some regular interval, and at either end of
the day, before the PC was 'on' the (NetWare) network, to pull the plug and
see what happened. That can save some surprise and disappointment.

Greg Stigers
http://www.cgiusa.com

-----Original Message-----
From: Gavin Scott [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Wednesday, February 02, 2000 5:59 PM
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Subject: Re: Threaded Archive Outage, and Caution

Bruce writes:
> If you're using the inexpensive standby power supplies for light loads,
> make sure that you check them regularly by disconnecting them from the
> mains.

Also it's now been several years since servers started getting small enough
to use these small/cheap UPS units with them, and UPS batteries have a
limited useful lifetime, so there are probably a lot of UPS units out there
that are no longer "U", and are currently functioning only as large heavy
warm power strips.

G.