plonq | This music blows

"DM" brought in some CDs today and although there is some overlap, we do not entirely share tastes in music. I didn't mind the Honeymoon Suite or Bruce Hornsby, and even Steve Winwood and Don Henley were okay, but after today I am enforcing a strict "no Blowfish" rule.

As

atara mentioned earlier, we got ourselves a new laser printer. It hooked up and worked fine except for one niggling problem: there was a constant LOUD, ALARMING series of beeps every time we printed a page. She checked the drivers and cables, but everything seemed to be fine. Likewise there was nothing wrong with the pages that it was spitting out. It's just that every time either of us sent something to print we got,

"click whirrrrr BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP whirrrr click."

I did a bit of research on the HP page and the word "UPS" jumped out at me. On a hunch I had

atara print another test page while I monitored the UPS. The moment the page went to print the usage monitor on the UPS jumped from 55% load to 135% load. Ah ha! The beeping was not coming from the printer, but from the poor, overloaded UPS. I swapped the power cord to the other side of the UPS and the beeping stopped. The printer is protected from surges, but we can't print during a blackout. We'll live.