Discuss February 2009

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Re: [CentOS] Emergency rescue help needed
by Les Mikesell 02 Feb '09

02 Feb '09

Sorin Srbu wrote: > > Marking words: "used" to be best? Which is the best now then? APC is > apparantely not an option as they suck bigtime IMO, so what's? Powerware and > APC are the two biggest and most wellknown UPS-manufacturers I know of. APC does make a full line of units. Perhaps you aren't buying the right ones if they aren't serving you well. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell(a)gmail.com

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Re: [CentOS] Emergency rescue help needed
by Toby Bluhm 02 Feb '09

02 Feb '09

Sorin Srbu wrote: >> -----Original Message----- >> From: centos-bounces(a)centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On Behalf > Of >> John R Pierce >> Sent: Friday, January 30, 2009 6:49 PM >> To: CentOS mailing list >> Subject: Re: [CentOS] Emergency rescue help needed >> >> Eaton Powerware used to be Best, they made the very good FerrUps series. > > Marking words: "used" to be best? Which is the best now then? I think he meant the brand name "Best Power." Eaton owns both the Best Power and Powerware brands. -- tkb

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Re: [CentOS] Emergency rescue help needed
by Anne Wilson 02 Feb '09

02 Feb '09

On Friday 30 January 2009 11:02:50 Sorin Srbu wrote: > >-----Original Message----- > >From: centos-bounces(a)centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On > > Behalf > > Of > > >Anne Wilson > >Sent: Friday, January 30, 2009 11:20 AM > >To: CentOS mailing list > >Subject: Re: [CentOS] Emergency rescue help needed > > > >> However, in some cases it's cheaper to just get a whole new UPS... 8-/ > > > >I know I was shocked at the price I had to pay last time I replaced the > > APC battery. My favourite vendor sells a lot of Liebert PowerSure UPSs, > > so I presume they have had no problems with them, or they'd have given up > > by now. There is a large range, and the prices are good, but the only > > thing I can say is that I haven't heard anyone complain. I'd prefer to > > hear a positive > > report > > >before buying. > > Did you check Eaton Powerware? They are very competitively priced IMO. We > bought APC's before as well, but I felt the controller software was not as > smooth as it could've been and the battery replacement-programs very not > that good as Powerware's variants. > > With UPS's I prefer a brand-name. If nothing else for the reason that they > stock batteries even to older models. Never heard of them, but I'll take this as a recommendation, thanks. Anne

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Internet problem
by kmadananteshwar.vbhat＠gmail.com 01 Feb '09

01 Feb '09

Hey folks ! I am facing the following problems with internet on my acer aspire 2920 laptop running centos 5.2 ; whenever I launch mozilla firefox 3 beta 5 it takes at least one and a half hours just to load the homepage http://www.google.com/ig which in my windows partition takes just under 1 second and also my internet connection is a speedy 256 kbps / up to 2 mbps on BSNL in india .... Does any one have any suggestions and / or solutions ? Yours, KMB Sent from BlackBerry® on Airtel

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