I’ve recently read the first three Deathstalker books by Simon R. Green. I have to say, so far I’ve really enjoyed them. I currently have to turn to some other book, because the next two Deathstalker novels are not in my possession yet. The three after those two are, however, but I can’t go reading them out of order.
I’ve read several of Green’s other novels as well, and he’s a decent writer (even if his proofreaders suck—I keep finding typos in his books).
They’re a nice SciFi series if you need something to read, fairly lengthy but sometimes a bit repetitive. Nothing big, but from time to time I read a couple of pages that seem to say the same thing over and over.
I had an APC UPS go tango uniform on me, complaining about the battery temperature. When it happened, I checked out the unit and everything seemed fine physically. The server room was about 65F, and the entire UPS (2U rackmount system) was cold. I figure either it was a freak software thing or the sensor itself is borked. So it went into bypass mode. Now it’s an expensive surge protector.
Anyway, I came in to the office today to fix it, and had to shut down about 10 network servers before I could switch off the UPS and turn it back on. It came back up just fine, no longer in bypass mode, sensors are all showing nominal values. WTF.