Richard Atcheson wrote:
On Sunday 14 March 2004 01:04 pm, Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) wrote:
Yes I am paranoid and the machine is on a dial up connection to my ISP with dynamic IP allocation from my ISP.
I wonder which is the safest method to leave a machine, init 1 or powered off. any comments?
For 30 to 40 bucks you can add a UPS and leave it on all the time and not worry about it. ra Richard if it was only that cheap here. Asides from that I am going to find it a little difficult to cough up the cash required for an APC unit (ie ~R2000) as I believe it is confirmed to work with SuSE, ie if the UPS goes 'flat', the PC is shutdown.
Before you all jump up onto the phone and send me a UPS, I would be interested in getting hold of the circuit diagram for such a APC unit. That way I can make it up myself over time and save a fortune. -- The Little Helper ======================================================================== Hylton Conacher - Licenced ex-Windows user (apart from Quicken) Registered Linux user # 229959 at http://counter.li.org Currently using SuSE 9.0 Professional with KDE 3.1 ========================================================================