My home server is powered with a UPS, so it can handle power outages gracefully (live through short ones, or shutdown gracefully if the outage persists) – which is nice and dandy.

The UPS (an Advice PRV 850) has four built-in outlets, that can drive up to four PCs and monitors. But the sockets are for “kettle cords”, which is a shame if I want to power other devices (e.g., router, modem) using the UPS…

So what can one do..? Well – why not hack standard outlets into the “kettle cord” socket? 🙂