[ale] [OT] Misc. brain droppings for a December storm

[Brian J. Dowd]

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>
>1) I've got all my machines on UPSs now, and this highly desireable 
>technology has me confused a little bit. Why is it you never see a UPS 
>built into a tower case/power supply? Getting rid of at least one _thick_ 
>wire, possibly two, an extra box to secure away from feet and pesky 
>fingers, plus the electrical inefficiencies (probably minimal) of 
>switching from mains to battery to mains to mommy board  seems like a 
>desireable thing to do, yet I have yet to see it done. I must be missing 
>something important, but what?
>
The reason could be that separate components are always better. That's 
the rationale behind Unix;
many small programs which each do one thing well... Just because you can 
aggregate components
doen't mean you should. Additionally I've found I can fry eggs on my 
UPS. I wouldn't want it in the
same case as my CPU.

<snip>

>  Or is it more likely that I'm just plain nuts?
>
Never ask a question like this on the ale mailing list ;-)


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