Nice!  Not sure if there's enough in it for a tech startup, though!

Dan


On 13/02/2011 14:56, Kevin Meyer - KMZ wrote:
I wanted to share this with someone!

I discovered a real Heath-Robinson lightning detector..

We had quite an intense lightning storm last week, and watching my
server logs, l noticed the following entries after a few close strikes:

Feb  7 17:22:09 abacus kernel: [24941.586544] psmouse.c: bad data from KBC - 
bad parity
Feb  7 17:24:48 abacus kernel: [25099.954805] psmouse.c: bad data from KBC - 
bad parity
Feb  7 17:24:48 abacus kernel: [25100.007411] psmouse.c: bad data from KBC - 
bad parity
Feb  7 17:24:48 abacus kernel: [25100.083384] psmouse.c: bad data from KBC - 
bad parity

It looks like my PS/2 mouse is picking up the RF noise and generating
garbage... ;)


Regards,
Kevin


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