Tag: UPS

It takes a lot of power to run a modern data center, and for reliability that power needs to be clean, and stable. So what do you do when you need to install a monstrosity of a UPS on the fourth floor of an historic building? You take out the windows, and hire a crane. This UPS installation is definitely not plug and play. Taking 15 hours, and a heck of a lot of manpower, it just goes to show ...

digg_url = 'http://digg.com/tech_news/Put_the_wrong_address_on_UPS_Package_Well_now_you_can_change_it_online'; It's 3:00 in the morning, and after pulling your hair out all night, you realize that the reason you can't get that program to run is that you need more RAM. A few seconds later you've got 4GB of memory shipping from Newegg. And then you remember that you entered your home address for ...

It was really the inevitable Google Maps hack: PackageMapper uses Google Maps to draw a map of your incoming package's route, and works for UPS, FedEx, and USPS. Even neater, it can show you the routes for many packages at once so you get an at-a-glance view of where your  packages are. Now if only there were a service that would do this in real-time (i.e. how far is the truck away from my ...