On Wed, 2008-04-09 at 16:35 +0300, Manolis Kiagias wrote:
> 
> Da Rock wrote:
> > On Wed, 2008-04-09 at 08:24 +1000, Da Rock wrote:
> >   
> >> On Wed, 2008-04-09 at 01:02 +0300, Manolis Kiagias wrote:
> >>     
> >>> Da Rock wrote:
> >>>       
> >>>> On Tue, 2008-04-08 at 23:45 +0200, Erik Cederstrand wrote:
> >>>>   
> >>>>         
> >>>>> Da Rock wrote:
> >>>>>     
> >>>>>           
> >>>>>> This may sound like a strange question, but is there a way to mute the
> >>>>>> voice box of a UPS? I have a highly specialised application for one- I
> >>>>>> need a mobile desktop pc (very cheap). I need to setup a pc for my
> >>>>>> little girl so that she has music, video, and visualisations while 
> >>>>>> she's
> >>>>>> in her cot- which is mobile and moved from room to room. So I don't 
> >>>>>> want
> >>>>>> to shutdown the pc when in transit, and I certainly don't want any
> >>>>>> shrieks when I unplug the power...
> >>>>>>       
> >>>>>>             
> >>>>> Just crack open the UPS box and cut the wires to the loudspeaker :-)
> >>>>>     
> >>>>>           
> >>>> I thought of that- but how do you do that with those little sealed
> >>>> units? I'm looking at a small consumer unit around 500-700VA.
> >>>>
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> >>>>   
> >>>>         
> >>> I've got a couple of cheap APC models (RS500). You can turn off all 
> >>> their alert signals using the apcupsd ( sysutils/apcupsd)  program ( 
> >>> which is of course used for automatic shutdowns). The setting is stored 
> >>> in UPS memory (probably flash or EEPROM) and is retained. This is good 
> >>> actually, since one of these is pretty close to my bedroom ;)
> >>>
> >>>       
> >> So it can be switched off with the software? That could work for me...
> >>     
> >
> > I just confirmed with APC regarding this software setting, and they
> > confirmed it- but stated categorically that only the Window$ software of
> > their making could do it. Can you confirm the BSD software will do it?
> >
> > I think I shocked the guy when he suggested just hook up to another
> > windows box to change the setting, then put it on whatever machine I
> > wanted, and I told him that was near impossible- "I wouldn't corrupt my
> > network with M$"!!!
> >
> >   
> I assure you, apcupsd has this option. Here is a direct paste from my 
> freebsd server:
> 
> Please select the function you want to perform.
> 
> 1) Test kill UPS power
> 2) Perform self-test
> 3) Read last self-test result
> 4) Change battery date
> 5) View battery date
> 6) View manufacturing date
> 7) Set alarm behavior
> 8) Set sensitivity
> 9) Quit
> 
> Select function number: 7
> 
> Current alarm setting: DISABLED
> Press...
>  E to Enable alarms
>  D to Disable alarms
>  Q to Quit with no changes
> Your choice:
> 
> You can access this by running apctest as root. It is installed as part 
> of sysutils/apcupsd. You should however stop the apcupsd monitoring 
> daemon before running apctest.

I figured this was the case of M$ misinformation again.

Cool- I've made the right choice then. I ordered one based on the fact
that at worst I could run either window$ in a VM, or wine, or that
window$ lookalike in a VM. But this is much better...

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