Re: Asus sucks (Re: sata sucks)

[Nick Lidakis <nlidakis@verizon.net>]

Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 22, 2006 at 10:26:31AM -0400, Nick Lidakis wrote:
>   
> > hendrik@topoi.pooq.com wrote:
> >     
> > > >    
> > > >         
> > > How long do they sustain operation if the power fails?
> > >
> > > -- hendrik
> > >
> > >
> > >  
> > >       
> > It all depends on how power hungry your machine is. LCD is more 
> > efficient than CRT, a Cool 'n Quiet AMD CPU is probably more efficient 
> > than an older generation Intel CPU. A friend recently purchased this 
> > model (http://www.apc.com/products/family/index.cfm?id=21) UPS for her 
> > 20" iMac. Has more than enough power to let her save her work and power 
> > down her machine gracefully. Cost her 35.00 US dollars.
> >
> > Nick
> >
> >     
>
> So, in this same vein, does linux recognize events from a USB(i think)
> connected UPS? I have some of my boxen on UPS with the monitors on
> regular power to give me more uptime on them. THe idea is to recognize
> that we've gone to UPS power and gracefully take the system down
> automatically.
>
> A
>   
apt-cache search apc ups
apcupsd - APC UPS Power Management
apcupsd-cgi - Cgi for APC UPS Power Management
apcupsd-doc - Documentation for apcupsd
collectd - statistics collection daemon
gapcmon - apcupsd monitor GUI
genpower - Monitor UPS and handle line power failures
nut-snmp - A meta SNMP Driver subsystem for the nut - Network UPS Tools
nut-usb - USB Drivers subsystem for the nut - Network UPS Tools
powstatd - Configurable UPS monitoring daemon
texlive-latex-extra - TeX Live: LaTeX supplementary packages
tinysnmp-module-ups - UPS MIB module for TinySNMP