Woops! Got it wrong. Don't know how to edit my old comment. Out of 8 sockets:

1. a. 1 is a Master socket with battery backup
2. b. 6 sockets are slaved to the master, of which:
   1. i. 3 slave sockets have battery backup
   2. ii. 3 slave sockets are surge-protected only
3. c. 1 socket is an independent "always-on" socket

Ah right. Well the way this particular model seems to be set up is out of 8 sockets:

1. - 3 sockets are slaved to a master socket and have battery backup (4 in total)
2. - 3 sockets are not slaved and only have surge protection i.e. no battery backup
3. - 1 socket is an "always-on" socket, only surge-protected, no battery backup

Hope that clears things up

I've just bought one of these for personal use in anticipation of my new gaming PC I'm building this weekend: APC Back UPS ES8 Power Saving Outlet 700VA

Found it while scouring for surge-protected multi-plugs with good reviews. The really good quality multi-plugs were already pretty pricey, so going for the UPS seemed logical. Based on its specs, I'll get about 8 minutes to shutdown my PC safely. Not too shabby for less than £100.

Thanks, I've sent along an email.

How about making a new friend who'd be interested in your point of view? Is there a PM in this thing?

Thanks for that link. Unfortunately it seems the video player is broken. Appears to be some sort of Windows Media plugin that none of my browsers play nice with.

Ask anyone who has watched BBC for the last 10 years, and they'll tell you that BBC News has gone down the toilet of "entertainment as news/news as entertainment" and is pretty much exactly the British equivalent of CNN. The accents don't actually mean it's better.

Al Jazeera is a great choice mostly because it's not a Western viewpoint. Same with Russia Today who will happily poke at topics BBC and CNN dropped very quickly or never discussed at all, and it streams live online 24/7.
If it isn't blocked, there is also PressTV which is the Iranian CNN, certain to have a different point of view of the same global topics. All three broadcast in English.

I would love it if China had an English language news channel, just to hear their angle on the same major topics.

Sounds similar to a concept in Iain M. Bank's "Culture" novels where the gigantic AIs have portions of their hardware or "brains" in hyperspace to overcome the limitations of physics. Apparently they were way past the point where an electron travelling at close to the speed of light in a near-perfect conducting medium going from one end of a circuit to another in meatspace was causing a bottleneck!

I had to Google "Hastur", but when I realised who It was; Sir, I applaud your diabolical pranksterism.

I'm going to invalidate my mod points but screw it, this is too fascinating to reply to.

What you just described is exactly what Philip K Dick was fascinated by and put into his writing with regards whether or not any of us really know, really know, when we are "sane" and when we are not.

I am OK with this as long as Lucas doesn't write ANY of it. If they could somehow merge the Zahn Trilogy and Dark Horse's first Expanded Universe comic Dark Empire into a credible 9-hour long 3 feature film set, I would be a very happy man.

But it's not going to happen.

Answering to an AC but so very much agreed I had to comment. It really stinks. It just doesn't flow when you say it. It makes you think of food. It just doesn't have a cool "STAND BACK! I'M USING SCIENCE!" name.

I'm assuming it refers to the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory?

That's a fair point. My guess is there is already entrenched prejudice against Hinduism (i.e. the wonderful history they have with their neighbour India) and illiteracy takes care of everything else.

Ummm...because if they censored the words "Prophet" and/or "Mohammed", that would be censoring a pillar of the Muslim faith? How would the righteous and moral doublegood citizens of Pakistan discuss the most important person in their lives? Or is this a test....?

Jesus is a prophet but not THE Prophet in Islam, so that's OK to make sure the infidels don't get to sell that silly concept outside of their strange cult.

More importantly though, this is actually a good thing. Why? Because we can look to Urdu - the national language of Pakistan - becoming the source of an entirely new and titillating orgy of euphemisms and slang that will defeat this list and that can never adapt effectively to counter it. The authorities have unwittingly introduced chaos and creativity into the very evolution of their national language. In less than a year, I make a gentlemen's bet that there will be their equivalent of the Number 1 Top 40 hit by their equivalent of Justin Bieber or Duffy belting out lyrics about "big tracts of land" and "brown roses with small petals" that will have the older generation pleased at the agricultural bent of the song.....and the young'uns practically creaming themselves in laughter.

It wouldn't hurt to email the makers of the GPU or the promoters of the offer and explain your issue. They may be kind enough to send you the DVD or BRD (sans any packaging, just the disc). Just ask nicely and don't expect too much and you might get sorted.

Good luck.