News from PANUG - March 6, 2001
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UCITA

Thanks to those of you that responded to the recent survey
about the UCITA. Nearly everyone responded as we expected.
PANUG will adopt an anti-UCITA position and will try to
send representatives to public hearings on the matter. We'll
announce this here when we know when they'll be held so
you can choose to get involved.

We're now planing an event where Representative Barnhardt
will speak about the UCITA.

BROWNOUTS
by Ed Sawicki

Here in Lake Oswego, power line disturbances tend to be rare. In
recent weeks, however, we've had momentary outages a few times
each week. One of our UPS units had defective batteries and our
fax server was down and went unnoticed for quite a number of
hours.

The gel cell lead-acid batteries used in many UPS units have a
limited lifetime and need to be replaced periodically. I usually get
at least two but no more than three years on a set of batteries.
This means that I can schedule battery replacements - if I
remember.

Power problems are likely to get worse when we come in to the
summer months. It's a good time to do preventative maintenance
now.