[HECnet] Number of nodes online a bit low?

On Mon, 26 Jan 2015 12:27:49 -0500, John Wilson wrote: I am much more nervous about the (to my view) really crappy and scary plugs you use in the US. They actually have a fair chance of actually exposing me to contact... I can't argue with that. They'd *never* be approved if they were invented today, but we're used to being careful and people hate change. Same danger here, until they made compulsory (25-30 years ago) to sell only plugs with the first part of the prongs insulated, so that when there is electricity flowing, the accidentally exposed part is not conductive. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europlug#mediaviewer/File:Euro-Flachstecker_2.… The nice thing is that it's backward compatible with ancient receptacles :) G.