CambridgeLUG

I thought this would be of interest to everyone. This guy's got the right idea. Give people an alternative and a brief explanation about what you can you instead of the "boxed" license you to death software you buy in the stores. Great list of commonly used programs and their open source alternatives. One of the great things about the open source community is that each person doing their part really does make a difference.

http://whdb.com/2008/the-top-50-proprietary-programs-that-drive-you-craz...

There was a question regarding getting a UPS to communicate with a computer system running Linux. Here are a few links that I hope will be helpful.

For the APC brand of UPSs http://www.apcupsd.com

For multiple brands of UPSs have a look at NUT(Network UPS Tools) http://www.networkupstools.org/ They include a listof supported UPSs on the site.

In general selecting a UPS that has a serial port is recommended. This is due to the fact that serial communication protocols(what "language" the data is being sent over the wire) in most, but not all cases is more standardized.