Hello all

[Ben Pfaff]

Alan Garrison <agarris@voyager.net> writes:

> Ben Pfaff wrote:
> > 
> > Alan Garrison <agarris@voyager.net> writes:
> > 
> > > Ben Pfaff wrote:
> > >
> > > > Good $DEITY!  You call that a "very basic" question?
> > >
> > > Hmmm... "set |grep DEITY" reveals nothing.
> > 
> > "...as nervous as an atheist in a lightning storm." (STR!)
> 
> wtf (who t.f.) is STR?  

STR == Spot The Reference.  It's a game on Usenet, or at least on
a.s.r, whereby the others on the newsgroup try to point out the
reference that you're quoting from.

(In this case it's Terry Pratchett, from _Small Gods_ I think.)

> I think lightning storms are quite nice to watch (from a
> distance).  My only fear of a lightning storm is if my UPS
> boxen are really engineered or are just big pretty plastic
> boxes.

That's why you buy UPS boxen that come with lifetime $25,000 (or
bigger) equipment protection warranties.  And that's why you buy
all your UPS boxen and surge protectors from the same
manufacturer: no finger-pointing if worst comes to worst.  In my
case, it's Best Power because of their Linux-friendly policies.