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- From: eps@futon.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
- Subject: Re: Surge Supressor - not needed on NeXTs?!!
- Message-ID: <1992Sep1.081940.18670@csus.edu>
- Date: 1 Sep 92 08:19:40 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug26.161418.9122@tessi.com> chris@tessi.com
- (Chris Lamb) writes:
- >As the walls start to crumble, "Honey, grab the kids! I've got to sync the
- >filesystem!"
-
- That's why you want a UPS with alarm contacts, a serial port, or
- a network interface (don't laugh)--some way of telling the
- machine to prepare for the worst. The nicer ones monitor
- "environmental conditions" as well as the power. In California,
- a ground motion sensor might not be such a bad thing. In parts
- east ... an anemometer perhaps?
-
- -=EPS=-
- --
- Before Hurricane Andrew I had relatives in south Florida.
- I don't know if I still do...
-