[CentOS] Emergency rescue help needed

[Toby Bluhm]

Rainer Duffner wrote:
> Sorin Srbu schrieb:
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: centos-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On Behalf Of
>>> Scott Silva
>>> Sent: Tuesday, February 03, 2009 10:45 PM
>>> To: centos at centos.org
>>> Subject: Re: [CentOS] Emergency rescue help needed
>>>
>>> I just had a Back-UPS of about 1998 vintage burst into flames about 6 months
>>> ago. Luckily, someone was near it and grabbed a fire extinguisher. It was a
>>> Saturday, and if this person hadn't been in on overtime, who knows what would
>>> have happened.
>>>     
>> Geez... I have a UPS for my admin-workstation just under the desk on the floor 
>> in front of me. Suddenly I feel a bit anxious about that...
> 
> 
> There's a reason I don't like running anything beyond my ALIX-router
> 24x7 at home (while I'm away). And it's not the power-bill.
> IMO, UPSs don't really belong in the living-room. Doesn't really matter
> if they are old or new.
> Imagine returning home from work, only to find only the smoldering
> remainders of what was your house in the morning...
> 

Oh, there's lots of bad stuff that can happen to your home . . .


http://blog.cleveland.com/metro/2009/01/eastlake_city_and_state.html


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tkb