Alan Pope wrote: > Call me picky, but isn't it true that you can't *prevent* lightning > strikes, only try to get them to hit something other than your > aerial/golf club/tree/car/house?
My only experience of a lightning strike was lightning hitting the telegraph pole down the street, sending a big pulse down the phone line, and frying the fax modem on my motherboard (along with its nearby on-board network and the graphics). I guess surge protection wouldn't help with that sort of thing? By the way, hello! I'm a relative newcomer to Ubuntu (about four months now). I have Dapper running on my old Inspiron latptop (including wireless on a Linksys card with Broadcom chipset, which I was very pleased to get working in only a fortnight!). And now I've put Feisty on an old AMD box, and recently as a dual boot on my Dell Dimension (with XP, which I keep for occasional bits of stuff that are still easier for me on XP, till I get better at GNU/Linux). But I find I rarely use that other OS at all; and I've been sort of surprised to find that I don't miss it, and - contrary to long-term brainwashing (20 years, I guess) - I don't actually need it! Freedom! Ubuntu's really good - but I have to be careful not to bore my kids and friends to death going on about it! -- Diana -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
