On Tue, 2008-01-29 at 12:03 +0000, Alan Cox wrote: > Very good summary indeed. Thank you. Tim: >> Static's usually not a problem for the assembled computer. Though >> there's cases of people walking up to a running computer and zapping it >> to death, and mouse cables charging up as they're dragged about the >> desk, they're a bit of a rarity. > The case is usually anchored to earth and that protects the PC from the > worst of it. I have once seen a spark flash between someone and a PC and > reboot a box, but it survived. Though did it survive unscathed? I'd imagine that the worst PCs for being vulnerable could be the cheap cases with the all-plastic front panel, with no metal behind it. The PC is no-longer completely inside a metal enclosure that'd offer it some protection. You could zap the front, and have it go *through* parts of the computer before reaching ground, rather than having a charge go *around* the casing and to ground. -- Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.
