On 5/25/07, luxxius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 > >We've sat watching a fireball from lightning in the same room, frying the Orange box which took 5 weeks to replace, followint innumerable phone calls. And it is a bore switching everything off whenever there is a thunderstorm in the area. What are the relative merits of the various means of protection ? Robin > > > -- > ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk > https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/ >
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