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What! No UPS???
We just had a momentary outage last night - the whole house went dark except for the TV and the PCs that are on UPS. Now I just have to put the clocks on UPSs, of course, Grandfather just kept ticking away - didn't phase him at all.
Started using UPSs in my prior home which was within a mile of the substation that also fed the Motorola chip plant. Early very Monday morning Motorola would turn on the ovens and cause a brown out for a brief minute (I happened to be on my system at the time) and it crashed my system until I got the UPS. Never had a problem after that.
Dave.
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Your neighbourhood blew a fuse.
The sum of the power usage became to much for the substation.
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Somebody didn't read the sign![^] 
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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It would have been the code that he was doing that blew up the fuse 
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CarefulCoder wrote: So I'm tapping away at my keyboard about 20 minutes ago, working on some CSS
buttons for one of my own websites.
Just about to save, update some HTML, and
refresh my browser when...
...wait for it...
".......then the page looked exactly how I wanted first time! Now you don't get that very often when working with CSS/HTML."
That is what you really wish for, but then you woke up and it was a dream. 
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Now THAT would have been MORE than unexpected!
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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Most of the time, yes.
However I'd only made five minute's worth of changes - mostly very small size adjustments and color changes.
It was kinda guaranteed to work.
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Now there's a tale to tell the grand-kids on a long winter's evening. I think you should write it down somewhere.
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viaducting wrote: I think you should write it down somewhere.
The Lounge, for instance? 
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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viaducting wrote: Now there's a tale to tell the grand-kids on a long winter's evening
... by candlelight.
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Oh, sorry, I had to microwave briefly my coffee.
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Entropy isn't what it used to.
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Which country is this?
In India where I live, this is quite common, so we have Inverters in most houses - it is also called a UPS (Uninterrupted Power Supply). That gives a 2-3 hour backup till the main lines are restored.
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An inverter converts DC to AC and is different from a UPS.
/ravi
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Exactly. The Inverter is connected to a 12 V DC battery (similar to a car battery), and together, these constitute the 'UPS'.
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Ah. I didn't realize you meant a home-brewed UPS.
/ravi
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It is not home-brewed. The combination of Inverter and Battery is sold here under the name 'UPS'.
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OK. In these parts, a UPS isn't also called an inverter - they're distinct, in the sense that an inverter doesn't also include a battery and charging circuitry.
/ravi
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You are a careful coder
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"No One Expects the Unexpected!"
| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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Experienced it, way back in college. When I'm on my educational game project (for PC), one of my classmates accidentally tripped on the lappie's charger, then poof! I lost an hour of work?!
After that, I taught myself to save everything after I've done some modifications in my projects, Even just a line of code. My classmates thought I'm an OC. 
Don't mind those people who say you're not HOT. At least you know you're COOL.
I'm not afraid of falling, I'm afraid of the sudden stop at the end of the fall! - Richard Andrew x64
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Quote: Most students believe they don't get value for money at university
Those that think it's true probably do not get value indeed!
The problem is that learning is not about getting answers only, but to be able to come up with questions that can lead us to a better word! For that one have to understand!!!
I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is. (V)
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They probably shouldn't have interviewed the students skipping class.
It was broke, so I fixed it.
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