Comments for dougv.com « The Web home of Doug Vanderweide http://www.dougv.com/blog Speak To Improve The Silence Tue, 02 Mar 2010 23:27:59 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 Comment on Active PFC-Enabled PSUs Are Not Compatable With Most Low-End UPS by Doug Vanderweide http://www.dougv.com/blog/2010/03/01/active-pfc-enabled-psus-are-not-compatable-with-most-low-end-ups/#comment-3003 Doug Vanderweide Tue, 02 Mar 2010 23:27:59 +0000 http://www.dougv.com/blog/?p=2876#comment-3003 Thorn: APC has software called "Power Chute" that will let you run a test on the unit, which includes switching over to the battery. And you can press and hold down the power button on an APC unit for 5 seconds to switch it over to battery. The problem with that is, if your PC is plugged in to that unit, and your PSU isn't compatible, then your PC will shut off immediately. So it makes the most sense to assume that if your PSU has PFC, it needs a pure sine wave UPS. Check your PSU's documentation. Thorn: APC has software called “Power Chute” that will let you run a test on the unit, which includes switching over to the battery. And you can press and hold down the power button on an APC unit for 5 seconds to switch it over to battery.

The problem with that is, if your PC is plugged in to that unit, and your PSU isn’t compatible, then your PC will shut off immediately. So it makes the most sense to assume that if your PSU has PFC, it needs a pure sine wave UPS. Check your PSU’s documentation.

]]> Comment on Active PFC-Enabled PSUs Are Not Compatable With Most Low-End UPS by Thorn Ziegler http://www.dougv.com/blog/2010/03/01/active-pfc-enabled-psus-are-not-compatable-with-most-low-end-ups/#comment-3002 Thorn Ziegler Tue, 02 Mar 2010 23:14:00 +0000 http://www.dougv.com/blog/?p=2876#comment-3002 Did you discover this during a power outage, or is there some method of testing that simulates an outage? Curious... Did you discover this during a power outage, or is there some method of testing that simulates an outage?
Curious…

]]> Comment on Shortening URLs With The bit.ly API Via ASP.NET by Brena http://www.dougv.com/blog/2009/07/02/shortening-urls-with-the-bit-ly-api-via-asp-net/#comment-3001 Brena Tue, 02 Mar 2010 18:28:08 +0000 http://www.dougv.com/blog/?p=2390#comment-3001 Hi Doug, thanks for sharing this! Just what I needed to learn how to do this :) Hi Doug, thanks for sharing this! Just what I needed to learn how to do this :)

]]> Comment on How To Take A Screen Shot: Windows, Mac OS X And Linux by Doug Vanderweide http://www.dougv.com/blog/2008/12/29/how-to-take-a-screen-shot-windows-mac-os-x-and-linux/#comment-2999 Doug Vanderweide Tue, 23 Feb 2010 23:46:49 +0000 http://www.dougv.com/blog/?p=1389#comment-2999 @Silence: I can't be sure of this, but try holding down the Shift key, too. @Silence: I can’t be sure of this, but try holding down the Shift key, too.

]]> Comment on How To Take A Screen Shot: Windows, Mac OS X And Linux by Silence http://www.dougv.com/blog/2008/12/29/how-to-take-a-screen-shot-windows-mac-os-x-and-linux/#comment-2998 Silence Tue, 23 Feb 2010 16:50:40 +0000 http://www.dougv.com/blog/?p=1389#comment-2998 I held down the Alt. key and pressed the Print Screen key, but Home is the same key as the Print Screen key and when I do this, it takes me back to my home page. What do I do? I held down the Alt. key and pressed the Print Screen key, but Home is the same key as the Print Screen key and when I do this, it takes me back to my home page. What do I do?

]]> Comment on The Future Of Web Programming: From Artisan To Assembly Line by Doug Vanderweide http://www.dougv.com/blog/2010/02/22/the-future-of-web-programming-from-artisan-to-assembly-line/#comment-2997 Doug Vanderweide Tue, 23 Feb 2010 14:32:13 +0000 http://www.dougv.com/blog/?p=2866#comment-2997 You're welcome. As I noted, I may be way off with this; but I have to believe that the generalities of recorded history -- that economic activity constantly drives for efficiency and productivity -- means that the relatively limited medium of today's Web will be morphed, many ways, into something that most people can easily use to gather and send information of all sorts. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTML5" rel="nofollow">HTML 5</a> certainly seems another step in that direction. You’re welcome. As I noted, I may be way off with this; but I have to believe that the generalities of recorded history — that economic activity constantly drives for efficiency and productivity — means that the relatively limited medium of today’s Web will be morphed, many ways, into something that most people can easily use to gather and send information of all sorts. HTML 5 certainly seems another step in that direction.

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