JJZolx;566358 Wrote: > These are problems due to the spikes involved in the typical power > event, not the fact that the system has shut down unexpectedly. >
Thanks JJZolx. Yep, that's what I was asking about. The simple case of the vortexbox appliance being the equivalent of "unplugged" without going through a normal shutdown. To be clear, I'm simply trying to avoid any hassles of: the power went off, and now I have to connect a monitor and keyboard to the appliance and enter some command lines to restart SbS, mount drives, give out permissions, and all the other stuff I currently know little about. If the vortexbox appliance blows up, I really don't care about that (as long as the house doesn't burn down). I have lots of safe backups in 3 different cities! It's the "minor" hassle and the "wife factor" (I'm out of town and she says, "we had a power outage and now I can't play music. How do I fix it?"). I can tell her what do do with a windows machine (just reboot!). But the linux stuff (I'm assuming) is not so straightforward. Again, I'm speaking from ignorance on this issue. I fully understand that power spikes, lightning strikes, etc. are an entirely different issue. I do have things running through one of the "brickwall" price wheeler surge protectors to help in this regard, but nothing stops a direct hit I suspect. And that's not my current concern in any case. Thanks again. -- garym ------------------------------------------------------------------------ garym's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=17325 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=80889 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
