Linux World Canada Show, April 24-26, 2006

[Christopher Browne]

On 2/1/06, Colin McGregor <colinmc151-bJEeYj9oJeDQT0dZR+AlfA at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> - Dropping the power plugs for the booth. The question
> being "Is being able to power up PCs/Laptops/etc.
> worth the $$ that the convention centre charges?".

One question...  How much would it cost for a UPS powerful enough to 
keep a couple of laptops running for a couple of days?  If power costs
more than $300, I'd imagine that two UPSes costing about that would
suffice to keep 2 laptops running, assuming the UPSes got recharged in
the evening, and the laptops were chosen with a view to power
consumption.

{e.g. - someone runs the laptops off the UPSes offsite, and makes sure
that they get ~ 10h of lifetime out of that, and then the policy is that
ONLY those laptops get power...}

I'm sure there are some amongst us who could use an extra UPS; lending
it for a 2 day "burn in" should be no bad thing :-).
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