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Plan your downtime

Starting from 2 April 2008 our electricity supplier has introduced scheduled (pre-emptive) load shedding. ESKOM hereby guarantees the non-supply of electricity during certain periods according to a predetermined scheduled. Although load shedding in general is not conducive to the productivity of schools, this type of shedding is more acceptable since it provides us with a guaranteed schedule that can be used to properly plan activities in our computer laboratories. One good thing one can say about ESKOM is that this time they are managing to deliver according to their schedule.

It is thus important for schools to consult the schedule obtainable from the ESKOM website - http://www.eskom.co.za/. Activities should carefully be planned around it and important time lost in the computer laboratory should be made up in one or other way. All schools should make sure that all computers equipment including the server and UPS are switched off before such a scheduled power outage to protect the equipment against damage caused by suddenly being disconnected from the energy supply.

Preventing hardware problems caused by power outages is in the hands of the responsible people at the schools. Do not be caught with your pants down (or is it server up).