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In a follow on from Power Issues and Power Issues - Part 2, we managed to blow the circuit breaker yet again last night.

But this time we had the UPS in place. It started beeping on cue about not having any power, and I was able to reset the breaker without the server going down. Fantastic. Unfortunately the ADSL router isn't on the UPS yet (I need to modify a power strip to have an IEC plug on it so I can plug in the ADSL routers wall-wart).

The score is now:
Circuit Breaker: 2
UPS: 1

To continue on from Power Issues we discovered today that 4x computers, 2x heaters, the drier and the toastie sandwich maker are enough to blow the one and only circuit in the house. The toastie sandwich maker was the straw that broke the camels back.

Of course I didn't have the UPS that was bought after the first occurance hooked up (I was waiting until I had a serial cable for it), so I had to spend quite a while nursing the server back to health again.

This time the server is running off the UPS... I figure that if the power goes off, I'll be home and can hopefully reset the circuit breaker before the batteries run out.

Catalyst is now included in the mirror list for CPAN.

Which means that you no longer need to use arcane (for some) commands to change your mirror to http://cpan.catalyst.net.nz/CPAN.

Thist that if you are close to Catalyst (or working at Catalyst) then you should be using our CPAN mirror. It is fast. Real fast.

If you know of other FTP sites that aren't present in New Zealand already, then let us know, and we'll consider adding it our list of mirrored sites, we have a bit more disk space on there which isn't being used...

Updated: Fixed the link to CPAN