bored now

[carbonel]

The power is out. I work at home. There's remarkably little useful stuff I can do without a working computer.

And I must have something set up incorrectly with the UPS, because it beeped when the power went out, but the computer died immediately.

Comments

[dd-b.livejournal.com]

If you take your laptop to a coffee shop, can you bill your employer for the coffee? :-)

[anghara.livejournal.com]

Um... and how did you post this, then...? [grin]

[carbonel]

There's an application on my Treo that lets me post to LJ. That's what I used, though the power is back on now.

Lack of power

[markiv1111.livejournal.com]

I remember seeing Glen Campbell on the Johnny Carson show. He talked about growing up in a house that had no electricity. "We had to watch TV by candlelight." Carson came back with a crack about Campbell's "kerosene guitar."

N.

[timill]

Plugged into the "surge suppressor" side rather than the "battery backed" side?

Like, err..., mine is?

Check the battery

[lsanderson.livejournal.com]

If it's not plugged in right... The battery could be old.

[sraun]

How old is the UPS? When was the last time you verified the battery? I have had a UPS die - it helps to test them every once in a while.