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2013-11-26 Thread Gillian Densmore
Winter is here. Snow is as well. Nothing new. Why is it then santa fes pipelines dont salt the roads. Keep heat and power going? Today ive had the power crash at least 5 times. This does nothing but harm to my computer. It fs up work im doing. Is there a doodad l can get to elimiminate those

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2013-11-26 Thread Joshua Thorp
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uninterruptible_power_supply pricy but worth it. I had been so spoiled after years of using laptops as my primary computer, that when I went back to a desktop machine I had no idea just how quick you can lose everything. An uninterruptible power supply gives you

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2013-11-26 Thread Carl Tollander
A lot of them have fans, which can be annoying. The Geek Squad brand over at Best Buy has nice specs and at least from several years ago, had figured out how to do the deed with no noisy fan. In any case you may need to plan for the amps on your circuit that the UPS will take up, and get

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2013-11-26 Thread Carl Tollander
Hmph. BB doesn't carry them any more. Turns out they are rebadged Cyberpower units. Other people complain about fan noise, but mine was quiet. Maybe the fan was broken, but it worked fine. On 11/26/13, 3:28 PM, Carl Tollander wrote: A lot of them have fans, which can be annoying. The

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2013-11-26 Thread Owen Densmore
My two are so small they don't have fans. -- Owen On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 4:51 PM, Carl Tollander c...@plektyx.com wrote: Hmph. BB doesn't carry them any more. Turns out they are rebadged Cyberpower units. Other people complain about fan noise, but mine was quiet. Maybe the fan

Re: [FRIAM] Friday's Friam

2013-11-26 Thread Tom Johnson
sounds good to me. -tj On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 4:43 PM, Nick Thompson nickthomp...@earthlink.netwrote: Frank, Since the St. John’s Coffee shop is closed on Friday, perhaps we might try out meeting at The Capitol Café, which is at the old Ohori’s location, next to Kaune’s at the

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2013-11-26 Thread glen e. p. ropella
A (small) generator is useful, too. http://powerequipment.honda.com/generators/models/eu2000i When your UPS beeps, hop over and start the generator. On 11/26/2013 02:17 PM, Joshua Thorp wrote: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uninterruptible_power_supply pricy but worth it. I had been

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2013-11-26 Thread glen e. p. ropella
Outside! ... of course ... Don't run generators inside your house or garage... of course ... goes without saying. 8^) But I have heard of some people dying of asphyxiation because they ran generators in their garage. On 11/26/2013 04:48 PM, glen e. p. ropella wrote: A (small) generator is

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2013-11-26 Thread Gary Schiltz
Or, there in the land of eternal sunshine, there is nearly always solar (daylight hours of course). On Nov 26, 2013, at 7:48 PM, glen e. p. ropella g...@tempusdictum.com wrote: A (small) generator is useful, too. http://powerequipment.honda.com/generators/models/eu2000i When your UPS

[FRIAM] Al Gore goes vegan, Ashley Alman, The Huffington Post: Rich Murray 2013.11.26

2013-11-26 Thread Rich Murray
Al Gore goes vegan, Ashley Alman, The Huffington Post: Rich Murray 2013.11.26 http://rmforall.blogspot.com/2013/11/al-gore-goes-vegan-ashley-alman.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Gore age 65 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/11/25/al-gore-vegan_n_4340462.html Al Gore Goes Vegan The