Power is one of those things you don't think of much unless you're paying the bill or it suddenly isn't there. There was a power outage Friday evening, and we learned a couple of things.

The outage only lasted an hour, and the fileserver and network switch (which are on the same UPS) could easily have gone on another hour. The ( Read more... )

A pretty good day, mostly spent puttering. Colleen needed to buy some ( Read more... )

If I think about my finances or the state of the country or our stupid politicians I get depressed. Denial -- it's not just a river in Egypt anymore. See links in the notes.

My coffee cup has a hole in the top.

Went up to the Menlo Park office, early (for me), to interview an ( Read more... )

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There was a power outage yesterday evening at the Starport; no harm done, but it triggered some thoughts. Here's the raw data:

: UPS battery life on nova is under 15min. That's miserable ( Read more... )

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