On Thu, 2005-08-25 at 13:14 -0400, James Pifer wrote: > Last week I was out of town and we had a bad electrical storm. My > systems are on their own small UPSes, but that's more for short > bursts, > not sustained outages. If you're taking the precautionary approach, you want power line conditioning that doesn't allow spikes through the mains to the PC (be that a part of the UPS or separate), and for your UPS system to do controlled shutdowns and careful automatic restarts (if you want to let it). -- Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.