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"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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Second time in my life and second time in a row that I get an anagram as penultimate choice.
GCS/GE d--(d) s-/+ a C+++ U+++ P-- L+@ E-- W+++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
The shortest horror story: On Error Resume Next
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My UPS went out and I need to get another on. There are so many different flavors. I'm not really sure what I need. What I'm really looking for is something to kick in & keep me powered if the power goes out.
I'm looking on Amazon and I see many different ones with XXX Amps & xxx Volts. Some say 'Surge & Battery', and some say just 'Surge'. Some are a mix of both. Some have a 'data line' option.
What's the basic idea? What do I really need?
In theory, theory and practice are the same. But in practice, they never are.β
If it's not broken, fix it until it is.
Everything makes sense in someone's mind.
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Thanks
In theory, theory and practice are the same. But in practice, they never are.β
If it's not broken, fix it until it is.
Everything makes sense in someone's mind.
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I had no idea either, and did much the same as Jeremy.
The main problem I had was delivery - if it's lead acid based, then it's HEAVY - and the first two that were delivered had clearly been dropped / thrown / fallen off the truck and had to go back. And given that the max distance it could travel in the UK is around 800 miles, that doesn't bode well ...
The third one was fine, and lasted a couple of years before just dying when the power failed - batteries were fine, but when it switched to backup, it stopped powering it's own electronics ... 
I didn't replace it.
"Data line" I think menas a USB connection to your PC so you can monitor battery power etc. Handy, but the PC software tends to be pretty ropey.
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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What have you got now ?
In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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No UPS - it was just too much hassle.
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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I would say that unless power cuts are extremely common in your part of the world, and/or you have mission-critical equipment that cannot be turned off, a UPS is a waste of money. A UPS large enough to run heavy hardware for a significant amount of time (an hour or more) does not come cheap. I have surge protectors on all my equipment, and that's it.
Power cuts are extremely rare in my part of the world, so I don't really worry about them. I use laptops (attached to desktop monitors) for my work, so they have a "built-in" UPS. The local telephone company provides internet over fiber, and if that ever goes down (it hasn't yet...) I have a large enough data package on my mobile phone that I can use it as a backup.
The only things that I would need to power via UPS are the Wi-Fi access point and the fiber router, and for those tiny loads any UPS will do. Adding the desktop monitors would require a slightly larger UPS, but for the few minutes of power cuts a year I can work quite well with the laptop and a mobile phone connection.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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I was going to write exactly that ! I second every word of it.
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My $0.02, worth less.
If you have frequent outages, and you are running desktop system(s) you should get one. Most will keep your system up long enough to ride out brief outages. Some have software to shut your Windows system down. Keep in mind that, if you drop power while the system is writing to disk, it could corrupt the disk. This exposure is limited if your disks are SSD. We have a mixture of APC and Cyberpower rack mount 1500VA units. All work well, until they don't, and you find out the hard way. We recently had a 4 hour outage and one of the units shut down immediately. Another stayed up long enough for me to shut down 4 virtual servers and the hardware server. Run time is determined by the number of batteries. We replace batteries every 4 years, a couple of the units are over 10 years old. Rack mount units have 4 batteries. I will probably replace the failed unit with APC but the difference seems mute.
>64
Itβs weird being the same age as old people. Live every day like it is your last; one day, it will be.
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It's mistaken for actual intelligence. It's the same thing tiny children do.
For instance, I go to a master carpenter and tell them how to do their job because I saw one YouTube video telling me something and the carpenter didn't use that trick on my home. Maybe it's a cool trick. Maybe I don't know the context. Maybe the carpenter doesn't need to use that trick due to raw skill. Maybe the carpenter can pick up a new trick. Who knows...
But, I'm a pseudo intellectual with no self-awareness. And, I'm here to argue baby... even though I have no idea what I'm doing. I watched one YouTube video. Kneel before me my knowledge. I must know more than the master carpenter with decades of experience. 
Welcome to the Internet!
Jeremy Falcon
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Carpentry is less risky, but for medical symptoms, search engines should start showing Statutory Warning in bold red letters:
"This is only a computer diagnosis. However advanced my AI is, please please please consult a human doctor before taking medicine, and don't prompt or suggest to that human doctor with my computer diagnosis".
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Amarnath S wrote: and don't prompt or suggest to that human doctor with my computer diagnosis
Why?
"In testa che avete, Signor di Ceprano?"
-- Rigoletto
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So as not to influence the doctor. The doctor will have his/her way of thinking, diagnosing. Which I feel should not be interfered with.
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So you wouldn't interfere with a possibly wrong diagnosis?
"In testa che avete, Signor di Ceprano?"
-- Rigoletto
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I would wait for the doctor to make their diagnosis, then (possibly) ask if he/she had considered the computer's diagnosis.
If you don't trust the doctor to do their best, why do you bother going to them?
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Daniel Pfeffer wrote: I would wait for the doctor to make their diagnosis, then (possibly) ask if he/she had considered the computer's diagnosis.
This is a good approach, in my opinion.
Daniel Pfeffer wrote: If you don't trust the doctor to do their best, why do you bother going to them?
Most people here have practically no choice, even if their doctor is mediocre, they stick with him/her.
I do trust my doctor (I am lucky, he is above the average). However, his best could be not the absolute best.
"In testa che avete, Signor di Ceprano?"
-- Rigoletto
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Pseudo intellectualism sounds a bit pseudo-intellectual...
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At some point, there must be a tipping point where pseudo stops being pseudo and becomes real. I suspect that there's no hard delineation there, but it's interesting to think that there's a grey area where one slips over into the other.
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