Do you prepare for a power outage?

Hi Neville, :wave:

Thanks for the info.
I didn´t know that baeldung mainly concentrates on CLI.

I looked at virustotal to see how the site is categorized there:

engine category
BitDefender advice
Sophos general business
Forcepoint ThreatSeeker information technology
Xcitium Verdict Cloud technical information

Good to have a site available that focuses on CLI. :wink:

Cheers from Rosika :slightly_smiling_face:

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Hi Rosika,
Maybe it doesnt. Maybe I tend to only do CLI queries. What I see may be a biased sample.
I do tend to get the type of answer I want from Baeldung.
Thanks for the info.
Regards
Neville

UPDATE
I had a look at the Baeldung site
https://www.baeldung.com/
They have a major focus on Java, but there is a Linux section , and it is mostly CLI stuff as far as I can judge.
They also have sections called Scala, CS, and Kotlin.
So they are not into everything, there is a focus on specific areas.

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Hi Neville, :wave:

That´s o.k. I like getting info stemming from first-hand experience.

Thanks for looking it up. :heart:

So it still seems to be a good place to look for CLI-related queries. Great.

Many greetings from Rosika :slightly_smiling_face:

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Hi @Rosika ,
Have a look at the computer science section in Baeldung

https://www.baeldung.com/cs/

There are articles on AI, and lots of other interesting topics.

Regards
Neville

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Hi Neville, :wave:

thanks for the recommendation. :heart:

Haven´t seen this page before. Seems interesting indeed.
There´s a dedicated “Artificial Intelligence” section, like you pointed out.
I´ll have a closer look at it.

Thanks again and many greetings from Rosika :slightly_smiling_face:

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Thanks! Articles seem to be good…

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It is good to get another opinion.
Baeldung seem to have some talented people

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Here is an example of a large hi-tech project that may not be a power sink or an environmental disaster.

How much power does a cable use?
Does anyone know?
and sure… it would facilitate access to other power sinks.

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Doh!

I can’t figure out where rslsync is storing it’s config!!! It must be in RAM or something - because it’s not saving to disk…

Lost power overnight - and my rslsync jail on my TrueNAS is back to factory…

So I took a look at the backups - THEY’RE ALL THE SAME FILE - no diff between any of them - dating back to January!

So - I give up…

Going to trash the jail and dispense with it.

I have the same shares on multiple computers… it was just nice having a “central” one I could call “the master”…

Or - I might trash it and try and start it again from scratch :

https://platform.resilio.com/hc/en-us/articles/1500004887782-How-to-install-Agent-on-TrueNAS-CORE-in-the-jail

It used to be an installable plugin when this NAS was still called “FreeNAS” - but they removed it from the list sometime before it got renamed to TrueNAS…

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Just weighing in from here in Hurricane Country, I do prepare for power outages. The outlets I use for my home network run on GFCI/AFCI breakers, I have surge protectors with the appropriate ratings, and I maintain good backups.

I really need/want a good UPS system but that’s a budget issue. Any suggestions are appreciated as hurricane season is here.

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I live in a lightening hotspot.
A major consideration is lightening striking the ground , then zapping digital devices through the earth connection.
We make sure that our surge protectors protect the earth line, as well as the active and neutral. You usually have to ring the manfacturer and ask.

Hurricanes may be more a matter of outages on the active line.
We do not use a UPS. My understanding is that they do 2 things

  • improve protection against brownouts and rapid on/off situations
  • give you a short period in which to shutdown gracefully

If you want any more than that, you need a generator, but be careful, only some types of generator make clean power.

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Good to know re: the ground connection!

I have a generator but that’s for after the fact and while it’s a high quality brand with a good current filter I’d be reluctant to run anything sensitive on it unless I had to. Frankly that’s not really what it’s for.

For me a UPS would be to ensure that I got a clean shutdown on the home network rather than to run the thing any length of time.

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It is suitable for that.
I dont know about brands. Someone else may have experience

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That part is so important and often forgotten, I always advise users to change the plug board they are using to one with surge protection. Many don’t follow why even when I explain. Similar for TV and hi-fi systems.

No idea just how many I have bought and replaced at clients homes, only to return later and discover they daisy chain them to other plug boards. Last mont came across a guy with 2 fan heaters plugged into 2 seperate plug boards that were fed off a surge protection board… he was pulling more than the circuit should allow and had burned 2 sockets completely !

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Usually I just use mobile data on my cell phone until the power is restored. I once had to wait four hours, but it’s seldom that long.

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I trashed it and hosed the FreeBSD jail and got back 800 GB of storage on my NAS!

Wow! I don’t think I’ll bother attempting this again…

800 GB? That should keep my 4x4TB raidz1-0 (gives me about ~11 TB usable) going for another couple of years, unless a disk fails… The longer I wait - the cheaper 8 TB or 16 TB drives (spinning) come down in price…

I’d love a UPS - but not sure I can justify the cost. The PITA I found, when I had a UPS - was the annoying beeps and alarms - quite disruptive inside a house…

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Living in Hurricane Country, my issue is a bit different. Power outages tend to be predictable–hurricanes are a “nice” natural disaster in that you get some warning–so I’ll prepare ahead of time by shutting things down before the likely outage and then waterproofing my home server and computers. This involves contractor grade plastic trash bags and duct tape; sometimes low-tech is best.

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One of the many reasons we’ll never move back to Hurricane Country!

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Most of europe is suffering very high temperatures, my own village is hovering around 30 day and night,our 2 pools are both at 30 just with sun heating. Even the sea is hot and not refreshing. Forcast is for next 10 days to get hotter… very unusual for this time of year.

Spain is event hotter ,

I know solar panels are only effective up to a certain température and as we saw a few weeks back there was a power outage in a big part of spain that touched france and portugal.

These extreams of température due to global warming or not means we are going to get more issues with power…

Already this week had 3 over heated boxes to fix !

That is a regular event in Australian Summer.
I cant run computer without turning on air conditioning… not even overnight.
I should have got a water cooler when my PC was built… I chose against it because of the noise.
What is needed is a tiny stream of cool air to direct into the air intake. What you do with a fanless machine I am not sure?

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