Hey Eric,<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2009/1/15 Eric S. Raymond <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:esr@snark.thyrsus.com">esr@snark.thyrsus.com</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
My UPS died two nights ago. From the symptoms, including the fact<br>
that the event took the motherboard of my main machine with it and the<br>
unreasonable amount of heat the UPS was generating immediately after,<br>
I believe this was a genuine fried-brains failure of the control<br>
electronics, not a mere battery death. The old UPS (a Belkin FVC1200)<br>
has been packed off to a recycler, and the motherboard hurriedly<br>
replaced.<br>
<br>
The good news, for you guys anyway, is that becoming active in NUT<br>
again just became much more interesting :-) I had unfinished business<br>
with revising the NUT documentation that I had let slide because of<br>
being a lead on one project (gpsd) and a senior dev on another (Battle<br>
For Wesnoth). Now I have every reason to finish that job, because I<br>
shall need to re-familiarize myself with the NUT installation and<br>
configuration process anyway. In parallel, I will update the UPS<br>
HOWTO, <<a href="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/UPS-HOWTO/introduction.html" target="_blank">http://tldp.org/HOWTO/UPS-HOWTO/introduction.html</a>>.<br>
</blockquote><div><br>let's say that it's one more reason, with the ping I made you a few weeks ago.<br>coincidence or... ? (note that I can't yet burn UPS remotely ;-)<br><br>but you're right: it's a great news, and we may restart the NUT documentation we've talked about.<br>
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I have not yet selected a replacement UPS. There is no urgent need<br>
for me to do so; where I live (mid-Atlantic coast of the U.S.) it is<br>
the dead of winter and the absolutely least risky time of the year for<br>
events like blackouts and electrical storms. I have about three<br>
months before our summer storm season really threatens. Rather than<br>
buy a UPS instantly, I would prefer to do some research on the state<br>
of the market in 2009 and allow others to benefit from what I learn.<br>
<br>
Accordingly, I have at least three sets of questions that I will pose<br>
to the NUT list as separate notes in order to start off topic threads.<br>
The answers to these questions will inform my buying decision, will<br>
be directly updated in a near-future update to the UPS HOWTO, and will<br>
determine how much and what kind of work I put in on NUT during the<br>
next few months.<br>
<font color="#888888"></font></blockquote></div><br>so, see you in the followup...<br clear="all"><br>cheers,<br>Arnaud<br>-- <br>Linux / Unix Expert R&D - Eaton - <a href="http://www.eaton.com/mgeops">http://www.eaton.com/mgeops</a><br>
Network UPS Tools (NUT) Project Leader - <a href="http://www.networkupstools.org/">http://www.networkupstools.org/</a><br>Debian Developer - <a href="http://people.debian.org/~aquette/">http://people.debian.org/~aquette/</a><br>
Free Software Developer - <a href="http://arnaud.quette.free.fr/">http://arnaud.quette.free.fr/</a><br><br>