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From: "Darrell A. Martin" <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] Comment on UPS
Date: Fri, 06 Jun 2003 06:41:12 -0500
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At 10:48 PM 6/5/03 -0500, Richard Brogger wrote:
>Hi Mikey,
>
>It does not sound like it would be a big benefit to have any form of
>alternate power for most of your computers while you are on vacation.
>Since no data is being entered, I doubt that loosing power will have
>much effect. While the UPS would provide an orderly shut down, the
>computer would still be off until someone started them again.
[snip]

Hi, Richard:

A UPS would deal with a *short* loss of power. If one left on vacation, and
had a reason for leaving the computers running, would one want to return to
find that they had been off line since the second day only because of a one
minute outage?

Darrell


Darrell Allen MARTIN
a native Vermonter currently in exile in Addison, Illinois
www.darrell-martin.net/genealogy/

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