My rant, not related to gnucash at all, but utility companies and smart devices.
Just me venting some long frustration along these lines. We put in the effort to add UPS and in my case a stand by generator that runs off natural gas. This combination has never failed to keep my systems powered even for long outages (worst case was 5 days). But guess what... most telcos (comcast, centurylink, cell phone towers …) don’t have the same ability. So if the power outage also includes that local distribution point generally you have about 6-12 hours before those distribution points go dark. So although I keep running perfectly locally it is no good for internet access. Second annoyance is all the smart devices/services (doors, garage doors, door bells/video,….) that can’t operate with out internet at all. They should have some sort of basic local mode capability over a local network. It would be one thing if you can’t set these things up with out internet or don’t have access to all the bells and whistles but you shouldn’t lose the ability to the primary function because the internet goes down when trying to use them locally. Ok I’m done just wanted to share. Matthew > On Oct 31, 2020, at 9:55 AM, Derek Atkins <[email protected]> wrote: > > Well, this clearly didn't make it out before my UPS died. > Power has been restored and services should be running normally again. > Please let me know if you notice anything not working. > > Note to self, the UPS lasted a bit over 4 hours. > > This is the first significant power outage we've had in 3 years, and > according to our neighbors across the street the last significant power > outage was 6-7 years ago. So basically less-than-twice-a-decade. > > We will see if past performance is any indicator of future results :) > > -derek > > On Sat, October 31, 2020 11:00 am, Derek Atkins wrote: >> Hi, >> Power is out here due to Tropical Storm Zeta. >> The UPS is down to 30%. >> So I am going to cleanly shut down the gnucash server shortly which will >> take down email, wiki, git.. >> I will restart it ASAP when power is restored. >> >> -derek >> Sent using my mobile device. Please excuse any typos. >> _______________________________________________ >> gnucash-devel mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel >> > > > -- > Derek Atkins 617-623-3745 > [email protected] www.ihtfp.com > Computer and Internet Security Consultant > > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-user mailing list > [email protected] > To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user > If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see > https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. > ----- > Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. > You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list [email protected] To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
