Fabcat's Opinions This page contaings various ideas, opinions, product reviews, ramblings, etc 20100331 Review: Upsonic DS 800 ups http://www.upsonic.com.au/ In short it is absolute junk. Don't buy them. Upsonic fail. The software supplied doesn't do what it needs to do which is shutdown the computer before turning off the battery supplied power when there is no line power. It will wait for the time you set to shutdown the computer and then it will just turn off the battery - wtf! What is the point of that? Tried using the mac version of the software from the same software company that supplies Upsonic and it had the same problem but had the additional problem of using a huge amount of CPU constantly - why? Junk. It doesn't work with the built in UPS software on a mac - some other UPS's do eg APC, MGE, maybe Eaton Sort of works with NUT on linux but not very well - needs a huge amount of setting up to get it to work. Rated at 480W but I've had 250W plugged into it around when it was new and if you remove the line power it just instantly cuts power - so doesn't work anywhere near rater power. After just over 2 years of using this ups, had a power outage and the unit just turns off instantly. Tried plugging a 12w load into it alone (fluro lamp) and same thing just turns off instantly when line power is gone and won't turn on. When line power is on, battery reads the full 13.67v so either the battery is fine and the ups is stuffed or the battery is bad and the UPS doesn't report it - useless either way. I could maybe get Upsonic to fix it but I don't think it is worth the effort - I just have no confidence in it to protect my gear. 20100331 Google search fade in How terrible is it - it is so annoying! I've ended up using a browser plugin to disable javascript at the google page to stop it happening. Unfortunatelly this stops the curser going to the search box by itself but that is prefereble to the annoyance of having to move my mouse to bring up the links to the other google tools. Google is being real pigheaded in their insistance that it is more efficient this way. I might end up making my own version of the google page to get arround this properly but I am starting to get used to having to tab to get to the search box when needed so I might leave it as is. Google - this is evil - you promised not to do that. 20100706 MegaBuy Technology Superstore review http://www.megabuy.com.au/ This site lies about what they have in stock. I ordered a copier from them which they said they had 7 items in stock and delivery would take up to 3 days. Nothing showed up after four days so I contacted them and they said they are waiting on stock and they expect it in 2 days. I checked their site and they said they had 5 in stock still. Even though this is common practice with some online shops it does not make it ok. It is dishonest. I don't like dealing with dishonest companies. Won't be dealing with this one again.