>As an interesting - well, I found it interesting - aside, the 
>current absence of autosave came to light when one of the two 12 
>volt car batteries running the resident UPS exploded. Said batteries 
>reside under this bench, and mopping the sulphuric acid off my knees 
>provided something of a distraction from the few lost lines of FB 
>code.
>
>Exploded! Acid all over the place. Big bang. Side blown out of the 
>battery. Sulphurous fumes. Thought I'd miscalculated in the theology 
>department and gone down instead of up.

I had that happen with a car. Apparently, the water in the battery 
had dropped to a low enough level that when I turned on the ignition, 
it arced through the battery and -- BOOM!  It was very memorable.

Since then, when attaching jumper cables, I always start with 
connecting the dead battery (careful not to close the connection) and 
then turn my head away when making the last closed connection to the 
charged battery.

>--
>Ted Spencer
>--
>A day without Mozart is like a day without sunshine. [Alan McFee]

A day without sunshine is... night.

tedd


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