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[Bret Busby]

All you people must be very lucky.

Here in Armadale, we generally have monthly power blackouts, lasting 
about half an hour, upwards.

That is apart from the power going off for a few seconds, whenever a 
strong wind blows.

We have had to disconnect our computers from the electricity supply, 
each night for the last few nights, due to electricity supply 
problems.

Radiant light globes generally last for up to a month, before blowing.

Here, we really need a UPS, if we are going to leave computers plugged 
in, let alone turned on.

Perhaps, one day, Perth will make it into the twentieth century, and 
put the electricity supply underground, in suburbs apart from the 
suburb where the minister of electricity lives.

Bret Busby

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On 6/21/99, 11:17:26 AM, root <brad at seme.com.au> wrote regarding Re: 
[plug] A Quote:


> Jamie Moir wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, 21 Jun 1999, Bevan Broun wrote:
> >
> > > > You don't live in Mt Lawley do you?
> > >
> > > I live in highgate (close to Mt Lawley) and have had problems with
> > > power. What the deal?
> >
> > Must be a few different grids in Highgate, Im in Highgate myself and
> > really the only power hassles ive had have been during storms, one box 
is
> > on ~65days which was some storms awhile ago
> >
> > Jamie
> I recently cracked 220 days here on a print server, with no ups, till 
a good blackout.
> I find that an idle linux system with not much hardware will ride out 
a MUCH longer
> power glitch than any windows box, especialy if you have apm supported 
and give
> halt calls while idle. Not only that, but none of my linux boxes that 
are not running
> the distributed.net rc5 contest, really need a cpu fan, they stay very 
cool with just a
> heatsink. (Measured under strict test conditions with a thermocouple 
on the heatsink).

> I say :- Green Pc's use linux.