Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/06/25
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Believe me Mark, the computer doesn't have to be left on in order to be damaged with lightening strikes. It's enough that you have a power cable in the wall-socket or a network cable hooked up to a hub (love those wireless networks). Happened to me in August of 2002. The whole house got zapped. Daniel On Thu, 24 Jun 2004, Marc James Small wrote: > Tina > > Do you mean that you left your computer ON while you were gone? Argh! > This is most environmentally unfriendly, as it both consumes electricity > unnecessarily and adds ozone to the atmosphere for no reason. > > In all honesty, there was a report released on this a week or two back > asking us all to turn our computers off when we are not using them for > these reasons. > > Marc > > msmall@infionline.net FAX: +540/343-7315 > Cha robh b?s fir gun ghr?s fir! > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >