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W∴ Balboos wrote: However - if the work you do is of little or no value . . .
Me in a nutshell... 
Nah, just kidding. The WORK I do is not unimportant, but whatever I do at home in my spare time can easily be recreated...
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
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In my parent's home there's a frigging 5 kW diesel generator. Why? Because they live in a isolated place, where power lines are less reliable (due to many farms and small processing factories draining power in peaks and releasing reactive power) and trees falling on power lines are common enough.
Add that the heating may be with wood but the pumps need electricity to bring water to the radiators, and in Winter temperature drops regularly lower than -15 °C and repairs usually takes dozens of hours... It's fast enough that usually equipment remains on despite not having UPS (no work done there... there isn't even a land line due to the only company reaching the area refusing to add a multiplexer since the current one is full).
* CALL APOGEE, SAY AARDWOLF
* GCS 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--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
* Never pay more than 20 bucks for a computer game.
* I'm a puny punmaker.
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Holy crap. There are over 20 servers running in my home. Domain controllers, SAN (primary and backup with replication), cloud server, Plex media server (used by people all over the country), multiple web servers on both IIS and Apache, Jabber server, Minecraft servers (multiple), Sharepoint Wiki server for the family, home automation controllers, burglar / fire alarm processing, video camera server (and a dozen IP cameras), home entertainment center, Exchange server (also relied on by people all over the country), VOIP Asterisk server, many telephone extensions that are POE, firewalls and VPN servers and network intrusion detection and mitigation...
Not to mention desktop and laptop workstations that I don't want bouncing every time the power blips.
I'm probably missing some things, but those are just the core things running at home on a rack mounted UPS downstairs.
And I'm just a hobbyist. My next door neighbor has a much more extensive setup in his basement.
Back around 2001 I was much more careless. One power crack destroyed a RAID array and baby photos of my first born son with no backup. I learned a lot from that mistake. I don't play around now.
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The hardware could fry because of power surges. If the hardware fries, chances are you'd have to reinstall the OS. That's a royal pain in the arse.
All of my electronics are UPS-protected.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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Power stations in the Netherlands are managed via a JavaScript app? 
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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Everything is run from a browser, these days.
And most electrical switches are unmanaged.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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OriginalGriff wrote: UPS
The United Parcel Service? Really? I always am a little careful when guys with brown shirts knock at my door.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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CDP1802 wrote: I always am a little careful when guys with brown shirts knock at my door.
Why? If you've done nothing wrong, you have no reason to worry! </sarc>
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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Usually when there are lightning storms I not just switch off, but unplug my machine from the power socket. (Never lost a machine but once I got blacked out when removing the second of my then brand new contact lenses).
Also lightning fascinates me, and here the storms are frequent and fierce (number of times nearby car alarms have been set off is amazing), but they rarely last more then a hour. If nothing else it's a good excuse for a break.
Sin tack
the any key okay
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You could shut the power off to the house at the panel. Just saying...
I have done this in the past to test battery backups. Eazy peezy. 
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I get dirty looks from Herself for that one.
Plus I have to work out how to set the damn clock on the microwave each time... 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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OriginalGriff wrote: Plus I have to work out how to set the damn clock on the microwave each time...
very true.
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OriginalGriff wrote: Plus I have to work out how to set the damn clock on the microwave each time...
Easily fixed: Connect it to a UPS!
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
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I have been tempted to connect the Sous Vide to a UPS, but never the microwave.
We refer to it as "the cat safe" since we can put food in to cool down without Dij being able to get at it.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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You're lucky with only a cat, my daughters got birds (cockateals), they chew anything - particularly cables - especially the [expensive] fiber optic type (soft as crap too).
- but that's still not the worst though (covered the cables up):
1. can't house train blimmin birds, and even less
2. can't get teenage kids to clean up in any reasonable timeframe.
Sin tack
the any key okay
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Time for cockateal soup? 
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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When I was a kid, we had a cat that chewed mains leads.
One day, he bit through, and leapt backwards across the room in a massive bound. He stood there, shook himself violently, glared at the cable and bit it again.
Bite ... bound ... shake ... glare. Repeat until fuse blows ... 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Was he infused with supernatural strength from the electric shock therapy?
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Hopefully after the 8th time around it stopped trying?
(Luckily for me cocky's cant get their lips around a power cable)
Sin tack
the any key okay
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Must not have been the brightest cat. We have one that did that. He learned after about the 40th time, though.
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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Some of them aren't fast learners, are they?
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Pointless reply -- honestly, this is why I only use laptops nowadays. Built in UPS. And quieter than a desktop box, more transportable, and certainly with enough computing power for what I do. Granted, more expensive, but the pros balance the additional cost.
Marc
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