owens@netptc.net wrote: >> >> ---- Original Message ---- >> From: zlinuxman@wowway.com >> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org >> Subject: RE: [OT] Home UPS (was Filesystem recommendations) >> Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2010 11:54:47 -0400 (EDT) >> >> >>> On Thu, 29 Apr 2010 11:26:52 -0400 (EDT), Stan Hoeppner wrote: >>> >>>> Anyway, the way I've always looked at the residential side of the >>>> >> UPS debate >> >>>> is to ask myself this question: Is it worth spending $100 to >>>> >> surge and >> >>>> power backup protect my $1000 PC and printer? For me that answer >>>> >> is an >> >>>> emphatic yes. >>>> Same point of view here. Once upon a time, I had some pretty expensive computer hardware, and an overvoltage botched the motherboard and the CPU. I had no UPS. I have an UPS for 3 or 4 years now, and everything is pretty fine. Even if thunder sounds, I stay in front of the computer without any harm to the hardware. But it has a cost. Everything is a compromise. If your hardware is cheap, and that it is quite unlikely to thunder around your house, I would suggest you not to buy an UPS, especially if your revenues are low-income. If, on the other hand, your hardware is expensive ([inclusive] or that you have low-income revenues), you'd better buy an UPS. It really worths it. But there is not only the thunder. Here, in Belgium, it sometimes happens to have power outages, without any information before. Consequently, if you have no UPS, everything is directly powered off, and it is not an interesting thing for both your hardware and what you are currently working on. With the other computer which gave up the gost, I also lost some part of a report I was working for. No doubt I was angry. -- Merciadri Luca See http://www.student.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~merciadri/ I use PGP. If there is an incompatibility problem with your mail client, please contact me.
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