On Wed, 19 Oct 2011 10:23:09 +0200
Paul de Weerd <we...@weirdnet.nl> wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 09:53:25AM +0300, Gregory Edigarov wrote:
> | On Tue, 18 Oct 2011 21:36:11 +0200
> | Paul de Weerd <we...@weirdnet.nl> wrote:
> |
> | > On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 06:36:32PM +0200, Benny Lofgren wrote:
> | > | Apart from the suggestions elsewhere in the thread, in the good
> old | > days | I used to detect power outages by simply using a 12V
> power | > adapter and | soldering together a special cable connecting
> the +12V | > to the DCD pin of | an RS 232 serial connector.
> | >
> | > A more modern approach (for those machines lacking a serial port)
> | > might be plugging in a USB device that needs external power (fed
> from | > the wallsocket) and using hotplugd. When the device
> disappears - arm | > a timer to go down. When the device comes back,
> stop the timer. |
> | :-)
> | which particular device do you mean?
>
> Ehr, well .. the USB device that you picked for this particular
> purpose of course. I think I misunderstood your question...
well, I've just asked which device do you use for this particular
purpose. Sorry if I seem unclean.
> Paul 'WEiRD' de Weerd
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With best regards,
Gregory Edigarov
