"The breakers blew twice here at home when I was compiling Gentoo on all three boxes. My 650 watt UPS powered them along for literally 5 seconds before it gave up in disgust. LOL"
Oh man, that's sadistic!
Compiling Gentoo.. ad then having the UPS power the things for 5 minutes?
Seconds even. Probably less than 5, maybe half a second. By the time I realized only a breaker blew (the rest of the house was powered) the UPS shut down. I didn't drain the battery, I think I was drawing too much power, must have tripped the UPS' breaker too. LOL!
I got real good at compiling and installing Gentoo (stage1 no doubt.) Ended up building six sets of packages (PentiumII, PentiumIII, PentiumIV for server installs, and the same for workstation installs) and bunches of kernels for the various classes of systems I use. Made tarballs of everything, and am now working on tarballs of configured systems for the various machines I want to upgrade (from RedHat 7.2--cringe.) When they're ready, all I'll need to do to upgrade a machine is to boot the LiveCD, fdisk, mke2fs, untar, grub-install, and reboot ready to go. Very happy.