Aleksandar Milivojevic wrote:
Quoting Edward Diener <eldiener@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
I don't know what you mean by "windows software behavior" but if I am
working with the screen in front of me and the A/C power to my UPS goes
out or the system needs to shut down because the A/C power has been out
and the UPS battery is running out of power to support my continued
working, I like to experience some sort of notification when these
things are happening. Since I am staring at my screen, a visual
notification seems justified to me. If that seems unusual to you then I
can only surmise that you use your computer differently than I do.
Nonetheless, since it's each to their own, a visual notification is
what I would like to alert me to what is happening.
What about that annoying periodic beeping from the UPS when the power is
lost? The entire house all the sudden dark and quiet. I don't know.
Usually there's so much indications that power was lost around me. The
windows popping up on the screen just to tell me something my senses
already detected is, well, annoying. But that is only my personal
preference. I guess. However, it would be nice to have power meter for
battery in the tray, like the one for laptop battery.
Sometimes one has their ears blocked to noise when they work. Other
indications do not make the necessary impact on someone like me,
especially as I use natural light form a window during daylight.
The warnning couple of minutes before machine starts to execute shutdown
sequence (or with FC6 and RHEL5/CentOS5 save to disk) is nice thing to
have. But that part is relatively easy to implement with apcupsd.
I am considering writing a program for myself also, since I am a
programmer. But if something already exists which works well, I will use
that.
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