Hardware failures: Get a UPS

[dep]

quoth Joel Hammer:
| In response to the inquiry about backups in a different
| thread, it is just interesting to note that I haven't had a
| crash since I installed my UPS, several months ago.  Before
| I got the UPS, I had a repeated crashes from what I guess
| were power glitches, and finally cooked a hard-drive. Much
| pain and suffering ensued. A fine investment, a UPS.

i agree with your conclusion, but the failures i mentioned both took 
place with the machine hooked up to a honking big ibm ups, as it has 
been for ages. indeed, when we had the blackout last august i was the 
only kid on the block who was able to a nice orderly shutdown. (after 
which i turned off the ups -- the damned beeping was about to drive me 
to acts of violence!)
-- 
dep

Hippocratic oath: An ethical construct whose initial tenet, "first, do 
no harm," prohibits doctors from treating lawyers.