things that only i could care about

shamefaced upsed-ness

Ok, the battery is fine. Ahem. Turns out that plugging in my monitoring cable stops the UPS from running from the battery… That’s some cable design, eh ? Maybe next time I won’t just go for the pinout of a cable from a Russian site, and find one where I can actually read the accompanying [...]

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crashes solved – maybe…

Ok, so the crashes may not have been so odd – my UPS might be dead I (finally) made up a simple APC UPS cable, and built apcupsd for the Qube. Logging looked good, with 60 second health entries in the log file. Pressed the Test button. Server goes off. Oh sh… Tried the mains [...]

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