[Noisebridge-discuss] UPS cable

[Geoff Schmidt]

I once knew a guy who had a machine with a large uptime that was  
connected to an electrical outlet that was going away. He desired to  
move it to another place without losing the uptime. Unfortunately no  
UPS was in the picture: it was plugged into a power strip that was  
plugged into the wall.

So after, we might innocently postulate, a careful investigation of  
the building's wiring, he fashioned a double-headed extension cord,  
and plugged one end into an empty socket on the power strip, and the  
other end into an outlet on the other side of the room. He was then  
free to unplug the power strip from the problematic outlet.

On Jun 4, 2009, at 9:31 AM, Andy Isaacson wrote:

> On Thu, Jun 04, 2009 at 05:52:18AM -0700, Dr. Jesus wrote:
>> On Thu, Jun 04, 2009 at 05:48:11AM -0700, Daniel Packer wrote:
>>> I simply cannot imagine why that resourceful person wouldn't want to
>>> take credit for this hack... XD
>>
>> I'm not sure that "resourceful" is the right word for this.  I'm not
>> sure there's any right word for this.
>
> So you're saying that the time I wired two VGA female ends together
> using 15 jumpers out of a proto board kit, I was doing something  
> wrong?
> I even ziptied the whole contraption together for security!  Worked
> great!
>
> -andy
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