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- From: mcovingt@aisun3.ai.uga.edu (Michael Covington)
- Subject: Re: Superstitions: power cycling, screen savers, surge suppressors
- Message-ID: <1992Nov23.031742.23437@athena.cs.uga.edu>
- Sender: news@athena.cs.uga.edu
- Organization: AI Programs, University of Georgia, Athens
- References: <By3EGq.Ko6@world.std.com> <By4JM8.HKA@NeoSoft.com>
- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 03:17:42 GMT
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- In article <By4JM8.HKA@NeoSoft.com> peter@NeoSoft.com (Peter da Silva) writes:
- >In article <By3EGq.Ko6@world.std.com> dpbsmith@world.std.com (Daniel P. B. Smith) writes:
- >> Surge suppressors. Again, I have to wonder why the manufacturers don't
- >> design them in;
- >
- >Surge supressors are consumables. After they've suppressed a surge, they have
- >to be replaced.
-
- Also, if you want to have even a *slim* chance of intercepting a big
- lightning strike, you have to do it in a separate box that is a few
- feet down the cable from the box that the computer is in.
-
- The idea is to keep the kilovolts *away* from the CPU.
-
- As for screen savers, I use the Windows screen saver for privacy rather
- than for screen saving.
-
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