[ILUG] UPS for home use?

[Conor Daly]

>Someone called Noel Carroll said on Thu, Jun 29, 2000 at 02:52:26PM +0100:
>> This sounds like a lot of effort and expense just to keep an uptime
figure.
>> IMHO unless you have a permanent connection then there's no point in
keeping
>> a firewall up.

The firewall is a dial-on-demand internet server which automatically d/l s
email and news a few times per day and I'm hanged if I'm going to wait for
0.5 hours to d/l the ilug when I get back from holidays!!

>>While I'd like to keep my machine running permanently it'd
>> be just a waste when I'm not there.   Shut your system down when you're
not
>> at home and not only will you save having to buy a UPS, you'll have less
of
>> a leccy bill also.
>>
>But what if it's in your shed/attic/outhouse then? And it's a pain to get
to.
>Damned if I'm unlocking my shed just to power up a server  every time i
leave
>the house and come back. :)
>
> - DoC, who hasn't been in his shed for several months.
>
Hell, if it comes to it, I'll let it spend 5 minutes fscking the disk on
restart (now if I could just think of a way to fake the uptime to pretend
the power loss never happened...)

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