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Rated R? I'd only give it a PG-13 rating myself.

>>UPS's are rather magic bullets (and pretty good monitors) of strange things. This whole place had very strange power problems. They even had to turn off the alarms on all their UPS's because they kicked in so often, and became very annoying. Not nearly as annoying as all the weird things they were having happen, but at least they all had an off switch.
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>Reminds me of the week when we were charging 40 new UPSes at the same time... which was consuming some 8KW, and any slight drop of voltage would cause at least half of them to start beeping. Someone would usually yell "feed the damn chicken!", but that didn't help much; rather, the main fuse would blow a couple of minutes later :)

Typical. The solution causes more problems than the original problem. < g >

>>>... or was it my automatic recovery procedure which hid the problems :)
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>>Your auto-recovery procedures probably came into play more often than you really want to know. ;)
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>The whole point was I didn't want to know at all :).

Now who's the chicken???!!! I actually agree with you on this one, big time agree! (It's not my job, man)