need...more...power

[cellio]

When I came home from work on erev Sukkot I was greeted by the plaintive wail of a UPS that had lost its will to live (thank you thank you thank you for not doing that 12 hours later!). There was nothing to be done then but unplug things. After Shabbat I replaced it; while I briefly considered just ordering a new battery, I noted that I was using all outlets on the UPS and all the wall outlets and was still resorting to a power squid, and on a recent power outage the UPS hadn't really held up very long. I was asking it to do too much; time for a bigger one. (And anyway, I didn't want my equipment to be unprotected for the several more days it would take for a new battery to arrive.)

This is as orderly as these things get:

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[chaos-wrangler.livejournal.com]

At a previous job I took a black sharpie (for light colored backgrounds) and a silver sharpie (for dark) and wrote some kind of label directly onto every plug that went into the UPS or my CPU, printer, scanner, etc (e.g. cables that could be unplugged at both ends got both ends labeled). This was very useful later when things had to be disassembled for moving or replacement.