Glen B wrote:

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Good job Glen. (It may be the *best* work you've ever done)
You know the lord works in mysterious ways. Perhaps he
could give you a head start by removing a back wall.
(for the addition or course).

Patrick, <;=)

Congratulations, give your wife my best.

Yup, in the absence of a UPS I'm knocking on wood here until recently.
Couple nights ago lightning struck a palm tree a couple houses away
and set it on fire. This is a _real_ freak incident in our immediate
area, though this is exactly what's setting off major fires about 50
miles away. Anyway, we have three tall trees around the house and I'm
probably going to look for a UPS soon. I don't have much faith it
will help in case of a direct lightning strike which can probably fry
all of our systems through the cabling anyway.

Since the USA doesn't subscribe to Kyoto, I might even send the Bush
Administration a bill for sponsoring global warming and freakish
weather which compels us to incur these expenses.

T

"Glen B" wrote:

Tony,

A UPS will help. One of my customers was hit by a lightning bold. The
telephone system and other electrical equipment was fried. The UPS fried as
well. But the system was fine other than a hard shutdown. Once power was
restored and the new UPS installed, the system fired right up. I have a UPS
for every system in my office, from small 550va for PC's up to a 1.5kva for
the server.

We have a huge tree blocking part of our view. We live at the 1,100 foot
level of the Berkeley Hills and have a panoramic view of the SF Bay Area. I
keep hoping for a lightning strike so I can see Emeryville while eating
dinner.

Jeff


"Tony Gravagno" <g6q3x9lu53001 (AT) sneakemail (DOT) com.invalid> wrote

"Tony Gravagno" wrote
into lightning rods, spike protectors, and 'lightning arrestors' .
That last is mis-named, it is a simple air-gap with pointy metal bits that
encourage a spark across it when the static electricity starts ramping up.
The hope is you'll short the bolt to ground during a strike, but the air
gap keeps your tv signal from being shorted out during good weather.
The American Radio Relay League puts out a nice manual
"the ARRL Handbook" about amateur radio, and much of it is do-it-
yourself instead of just what to buy at the store. I bet they tell you how
to protect a feed line from passing pesky overvoltage into your house.
But be aware a proper ground rod takes a whale of a lot of hammering
from up on a ladder. www.arrl.org

Your ups's probably have spots to plug in your phone
cord to spike-protect that line. Most people don't bother to use them,
and they'll even work if the ups is otherwise defunct.

I'm 35 and been coding in MV for 22 years (since early `84).
Mathematicians out there will note that that makes me 13 when I started - I
was fortunate (I think!) that my father was starting up a company at the
time which developed software based on Mentor....

He needed a cheap programmer, and I kind of fitted the bill!

I guess that goes to show how much a "non-programmer" can do with
"Pick-like" systems. I was 13 and my only programming experience was on a
BBC Micro (not sure if they ever made it out of the UK but it was a personal
computer programmed with a version of Basic - running on an Intel 6502 chip
and 32Kb of ram).

Maybe it's time I retired!

Regards
Simon
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"GlenB" <glen (AT) mvdevcentral (DOT) com> wrote

You can get a lightning supressor on the main circuit of your house. I
had one in upstate NY when I was there. It is like a large circuit
breaker that sits ahead of the circuit breaker box and reacts to
lightning hits by making a 3-4" seperation of the circuit. They run
about $100.00 last I borght it.

For serial cables outdor I used to buy lightning boxes that sit on
either end which can take direct hits. Though they run $500.00 per pair.

Richard Kann

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Frank Winans wrote:
File System ChecK. fsck itself should be a script or similar that
determines the file system type then calls e2fsck, e3fsck, vfatfsck,
reiserfsck or whatever is the appropriate checker for the file system
in question.

I run SuSE, and have a mix of reiser and ext2 (and vfat). I don't want
to care what they are, I just want to call fsck and let it sort it all
out.

Cheers,
Wol