On Friday 02 January 2009, Bill Davidsen wrote: >Craig White wrote: >> Strange experience I had with Belkin...a bunch of years ago, I bought >> one of their 4 port KVM switches with USB and it didn't work very well. >> I wrote them an e-mail and never heard a word back. Some 4 months later, >> a manager at Belkin called me on the telephone, apologized, sent me >> their new version free of charge. I still have warm feelings for Belkin. > >I've had strange experiences with them, not as good as yours. I had a server >which kept failing after a short period of operation. It was diagnosed with > a bad power supply, which overheated and tripped the protection. After > ordering and installing a new one the behavior continued. I don't have good feelings about them at all, their linux support sucks, the interface doesn't quite follow hiddev rules (and they helped write the damned document). I bitched long and loud when their bulldog monitoring software died when kernel 2.6.0 came out. Then gave up. 6 months later they adnitted to haveing a new version available for download. It works, sorta. The upsd is ok till you start the gui to check on it, then goes to 100% cpu till its killed. Getting curious, I ran 'file' against it and found it had been built on a redhat 5.0 machine, using gcc 2.6.x. If they care so little that they can't freely download a cd and install a current version to serve as a build platform on that old box, scroom. When the batteries next die in these two 1500va units, the name on the front panel gets changed to APC. >Turned that half of the full wave rectifier in the UPS had died, so the > battery would slowly drop until it cut out. Since AC was still on it didn't > bother to tell the server it was about to die! After the server was off the > battery would slowly charge until the server came back on, then the cycle > would repeat. > >I took great pleasure in recycling that UPS, I didn't want a replacement. > Sure can't blame you there Bill. >-- >Bill Davidsen <davidsen@xxxxxxx> > "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from >the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Better by far you should forget and smile than that you should remember and be sad. -- Christina Rossetti -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
