Tag Archives: cabin

Computer power supplies….?

After the incoming 110 volt supply goes into the power supply, what happens? what are the output voltages? Can I run a box on 12volts? It has to run on battery power as there is no 110 in our cabin when we are not there. I figure I could call it up on dialup from home, “wake” the box, and control it from home to look thru the 4 webcams that would be attached to it. Thats all I need it for. The batts would recharge when we go there and turn on the 110 power. Possible? I would be using windows or linux on the box (If I can figure out Linux). An inverter is out of the question, because it would be “on” all the time and wear the batt down before I get there. No monitor or keyboard on the box, unless I take it there for programming.
Will somebody explain what UPS is for…Oh, wait, Uninteruptible power supply…LOL, TWO T-105 6V (in series) (Golf cart) batteries. Very deep cycle. Where do I wire it into the box?

What is best text based Linux mail reader and how do you connect set it up to pop from MS Exchange?

I want to pop messages from Exchange onto my workstation but leave the messages on the Exchange server. I want to be able to read my mail in low bandwidth situations as when up to a cabin over dialup – hence I want a text based mail reader (line pine or elm) rather than a gui mail reader. I’m running Fedora Core 4.