[HECnet] Number of nodes online a bit low?

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2015-01-26 19:04, G. wrote:
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.jpg

The nice thing is that it's backward compatible with ancient receptacles :)

Right. But with the addition that for the Shuko (which you have in both Sweden and Germany (and other places)), the socket is inset, so when the pins even gets close to the receptacle, the whole thing is already out of each for any part of it.

But I know you have weird connectors and sockets in Italy... ;-)

	Johnny