So I got my new UPS today. 1500VA. That’s three times as much as my old UPS. Schweeet!! I decided to wait a while to connect the thing up, not for any particular reason. So I finally get around to it about 10pm. The first problem of course is that the desk here was not designed to support anything more than the most basic of computers. If all I had was a basic monitor, keyboard, mouse, speakers and a computer, I would be set. But being a little bit of a geek, my setup is of course a little beyond that. So I ended up having to re-run all the cables because things didn’t quite reach where I wanted to put the UPS. After about an hour and forty-five minutes, I had everything connected and ready. I turned the computer on, and Vista started right up. I logged in, and suddenly Vista starts detecting new hardware….WHY? After about 2 minutes, Vista concludes that I have 12 IDE devices. That would be a lot of devices, no doubt, but the fun part is that my computer doesn’t actually have a single IDE controller! So I click restart…clearly something isn’t right. As its shutting down I get the BSOD. This is the first BSOD I have seen in Vista. In fact, it has been fairly reliable. So the computer restarts and I get the “Do you want to boot into safe mode” message. Now of course because no one has owned a PS/2 keyboard in a good 5 years, safe mode is completely worthless because it disables all of your usb devices. So I restart again, and finally end up back at the login screen, only this time my blue-tooth keyboard has decided to drop its settings. OMFG!!! Now a blue-tooth mouse is fairly straight forward, works just like a wireless RF mouse, but a blue-tooth keyboard is encrypted so that a nearby person couldn’t log your keys remotely. How do you setup this encryption you ask? Well its very simple, but you have to LOG INTO WINDOWS FIRST!!!!! I am very glad I didn’t throw away my last wired keyboard. So something that should have taken 10 minutes ended up taking over two hours. Good thing I have to get up early tomorrow. Boooo.
In other news, I would highly recommend this UPS, especially for you energy conscious people out there. It has a LCD display on the front, and you can see exactly how much power your gear is using at any time. The LCD will turn off for a few seconds to save power as well.
Yawn…I’m going to bed now.
Straight up, next level bullshit. 
