Hey Eric, 2009/1/15 Eric S. Raymond <[email protected]>
> My UPS died two nights ago. From the symptoms, including the fact > that the event took the motherboard of my main machine with it and the > unreasonable amount of heat the UPS was generating immediately after, > I believe this was a genuine fried-brains failure of the control > electronics, not a mere battery death. The old UPS (a Belkin FVC1200) > has been packed off to a recycler, and the motherboard hurriedly > replaced. > > The good news, for you guys anyway, is that becoming active in NUT > again just became much more interesting :-) I had unfinished business > with revising the NUT documentation that I had let slide because of > being a lead on one project (gpsd) and a senior dev on another (Battle > For Wesnoth). Now I have every reason to finish that job, because I > shall need to re-familiarize myself with the NUT installation and > configuration process anyway. In parallel, I will update the UPS > HOWTO, <http://tldp.org/HOWTO/UPS-HOWTO/introduction.html>. > let's say that it's one more reason, with the ping I made you a few weeks ago. coincidence or... ? (note that I can't yet burn UPS remotely ;-) but you're right: it's a great news, and we may restart the NUT documentation we've talked about. I have not yet selected a replacement UPS. There is no urgent need > for me to do so; where I live (mid-Atlantic coast of the U.S.) it is > the dead of winter and the absolutely least risky time of the year for > events like blackouts and electrical storms. I have about three > months before our summer storm season really threatens. Rather than > buy a UPS instantly, I would prefer to do some research on the state > of the market in 2009 and allow others to benefit from what I learn. > > Accordingly, I have at least three sets of questions that I will pose > to the NUT list as separate notes in order to start off topic threads. > The answers to these questions will inform my buying decision, will > be directly updated in a near-future update to the UPS HOWTO, and will > determine how much and what kind of work I put in on NUT during the > next few months. > so, see you in the followup... cheers, Arnaud -- Linux / Unix Expert R&D - Eaton - http://www.eaton.com/mgeops Network UPS Tools (NUT) Project Leader - http://www.networkupstools.org/ Debian Developer - http://people.debian.org/~aquette/ Free Software Developer - http://arnaud.quette.free.fr/
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