On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 10:15:49AM -0700, Penguin Lover maxim wexler squawked: > Hi group, > > This summer's electrical storms are coming and I can count on my PC stopping > dead several times over the season. > > I did a search for UPS units and was overwhelmed by the diversity out there. > > What can the group recommend? > > I only need something that will give me about a minute's head start to safely > turn of the box. >
I use an APC Back-UPS ES 500. Since my desktop is kind of old and does not consume too much power, it can (and has) helped my desktop survive a ~30 mintue outage when I could not be reached to shut it down (as to how I know: my neighbor gave me a call on his cell asking whether the power is out for me too...) I have heard that I can make the graceful shutdown automatic, but so far I haven't bothered with it. W -- Congress: An organization to provide balance and be the opposite of Progress. Sortir en Pantoufles: up 520 days, 20:12 -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
