Re: [gentoo-user] UPS recommendation

2008-05-15 Thread maxim wexler
--- On Tue, 5/13/08, PaulNM <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: PaulNM <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] UPS recommendation > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Date: Tuesday, May 13, 2008, 4:51 AM > Arthur Britto wrote: > > > You likely wa

Re: [gentoo-user] UPS recommendation

2008-05-13 Thread PaulNM
Arthur Britto wrote: You likely want more than a minute. Most likely, you don't want your system to crash when coming back up when power fails soon after it is restored: your system could be in the middle of a fsck. Generally, you want enough capacity to: power off, power on, and then power o

Re: [gentoo-user] UPS recommendation

2008-05-11 Thread Willie Wong
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. > >

Re: [gentoo-user] UPS recommendation

2008-05-11 Thread Arthur Britto
On Sun, 2008-05-11 at 16:35 -0400, Hal Martin wrote: > Arthur Britto wrote: > > You likely want more than a minute. Most likely, you don't want your > > system to crash when coming back up when power fails soon after it is > > restored: your system could be in the middle of a fsck. Generally, yo

Re: [gentoo-user] UPS recommendation

2008-05-11 Thread Hal Martin
Arthur Britto wrote: On Sun, 2008-05-11 at 10:15 -0700, maxim wexler wrote: 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. You l

Re: [gentoo-user] UPS recommendation

2008-05-11 Thread Arthur Britto
On Sun, 2008-05-11 at 10:15 -0700, maxim wexler wrote: > 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. You likely want more than

Re: [gentoo-user] UPS recommendation

2008-05-11 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 10:15 AM, maxim wexler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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

Re: [gentoo-user] UPS recommendation

2008-05-11 Thread Roy Wright
I have several Belkin UPSs which over the years have only let me down once (we had a power substation fire which did some really funky things to the AC for a couple of minutes, afterward my motherboard on one computer "protected" by a Belkin UPS was dead). My main complaint with the Belkins is the

Re: [gentoo-user] UPS recommendation

2008-05-11 Thread Michael Beasley
On 10:15 Sun 11 May , maxim wexler wrote: > 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? >

[gentoo-user] UPS recommendation

2008-05-11 Thread maxim wexler
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 st