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Archive for January, 2005

Looking for a UPS solution

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Several brownouts this winter have inspired me to start looking for a UPS to help preserve data & sanity. I’ve got two computers (power supplies at 250W and 200W) and a flat panel display (pulling 40W). The cheapest UPSes I can find out there that will handle 500W for 20+ minutes cost around $400. Unless I go to that refurbished UPS place (~$150) and give up any sort of warranty on connected equipment.

Anybody have ideas?

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January 28th, 2005 at 10:50 am

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Blog changes are afoot

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The pain of maintaining a family blog separate from a family gallery have finally bugged me enough that I have decided to dispense with the blog entirely. I spent a fair amount of time hacking the gallery software to support the kind of display I wanted, and the RSS feed will now include fuller text entries—I think everybody wins.

Check out the new gallery at www.themcdaniels.net and let me know what you think!

New features:

  • horizontal display of good-sized pictures
  • comments now displayed in-line in full album view
  • lots of design cleanup

Enjoy!

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January 26th, 2005 at 12:33 pm

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