From: "Doug Bissett" Received: from [192.168.100.201] (HELO mail.2rosenthals.com) by 2rosenthals.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.1.16) with ESMTP id 2432715 for virtualized_ecs_users@2rosenthals.com; Sun, 23 May 2010 14:53:32 -0400 Received: from secmgr-va.randr ([192.168.200.201] helo=mail2.2rosenthals.com) by secmgr-ny.randr with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.43) id 1OGGIk-0000Vx-Lj for virtualized_ecs_users@2rosenthals.com; Sun, 23 May 2010 14:53:32 -0400 Received: from defout.telus.net ([204.209.205.13]:46339) by mail2.2rosenthals.com with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OGGIc-0007zF-27 for virtualized_ecs_users@2rosenthals.com; Sun, 23 May 2010 14:53:23 -0400 Received: from edmwaa16.telusplanet.net ([75.159.224.248]) by priv-edmwes23.telusplanet.net (InterMail vM.7.08.04.00 201-2186-134-20080326) with ESMTP id <20100523185321.MASR22954.priv-edmwes23.telusplanet.net@edmwaa16.telusplanet.net> for ; Sun, 23 May 2010 12:53:21 -0600 Received: from IREBBS7 (d75-159-224-248.abhsia.telus.net [75.159.224.248]) by edmwaa16.telusplanet.net (BorderWare Security Platform) with ESMTP id F79C01547486FAC6 for ; Sun, 23 May 2010 12:53:20 -0600 (MDT) X-CTCH-RefID: str=0001.0A02020A.4BF979A2.01D7,ss=2,fgs=0 Message-ID: <000.a07a03009779f94b.005@telus.net> To: "Virtualized eCS Users Mailing List" Date: Sun, 23 May 2010 12:53:11 -0600 (MDT) In-Reply-To: References: Priority: Normal User-Agent: PMMail/3.07 (os/2; U; Warp 4.5; en-CA; i386; ver 3.07.32.1531) X-Mailer: (Demonstration) PMMail (Gamma 1) 3.07.32.1531 for OS/2 Warp 4.5 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [Virtualized eCS] Power surge (was [Virtualized eCS] Printer support On 2010-05-23, at 14:28:24, Julian Thomas wrote: >On Sun, 23 May 2010 12:23:23 -0500 R. M. Klippstein wrote: >> >>Guess the >>only 100% safe thing to do is to kill the power switch in back on the >>power supply. >> > >That won't work anywhere near as well as unplugging the machines (including phone line >and/or network connections). Actually, unplugging it may not be the best thing to do. When you unplug it, you disconnect it from the ground, which is supposed to help to protect against such things. The bottom line is that if you are going to be "hit by lightening", you may, or may not, have damage whether you are unplugged, or not. FWIW, I don't think this incident had anything to do with being plugged in, or lightening (nothing else was damaged), it was just time for something in the PSU to die, so it did. Of course, it just had to pick a most inconvenient time to do it :-) -- **************************** From the eComStation of Doug Bissett dougb007 at telus.net **************************** ... TOP BUNK: Where you should never put a child wearing Superman pyjamas.