{"id":6018,"date":"2014-07-03T22:22:26","date_gmt":"2014-07-04T02:22:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/?p=6018"},"modified":"2014-07-04T05:17:37","modified_gmt":"2014-07-04T09:17:37","slug":"ups-i-did-it-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/?p=6018","title":{"rendered":"UPS I did it again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had to buy a new UPS for my desktop machine yesterday after the old one succumbed to battery death, so Cathy and I made a run to the local MicroCenter.<\/p>\n<p>UPS designers have been pissing me off since forever with designs that require you to throw away the entire device when the battery craps out, unless you&#8217;re  willing to go to great length to avoid this &#8211; finding the exact right replacement battery from a specialty supplier, then taking the unit apart and reassembling it yourself.<\/p>\n<p>This is never practical under time pressure, and I&#8217;ve never had the luxury of no time pressure when trying to cope with a dead UPS. Sure didn&#8217;t this time; my area was under a severe-thunderstorm watch.<\/p>\n<p>Imagine my pleased surprise when I found a big stack of varied models branded APC that are not just significantly less expensive and with longer dwell times than when I was last UPS-shopping, but designed with removeable and replaceable batteries, too.<\/p>\n<p>Progress does get made.  Dunno whether this is a standard feature on all UPS brands yet, but doubtless it will be within a few years.<\/p>\n<p>Some of you may find my <a href=\"http:\/\/tldp.org\/HOWTO\/UPS-HOWTO\">UPS HOWTO<\/a> of interest.  I&#8217;ve shipped a 3.0 update with the glad news of replaceable batteries and a few other minor updates; it may be up by the time you read this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had to buy a new UPS for my desktop machine yesterday after the old one succumbed to battery death, so Cathy and I made a run to the local MicroCenter. UPS designers have been pissing me off since forever with designs that require you to throw away the entire device when the battery craps&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/?p=6018\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">UPS I did it again<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6018"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6018\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6022,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6018\/revisions\/6022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}