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On 9/7/05, Matthias Bethke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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
