I've had had my hands on hundreds of motherboards, with no problems. I think some folks naturally carry more or less static electricity than others. Glenn ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gregory Nowak" <greg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Tuesday, February 14, 2012 10:40 PM Subject: Re: Building PC without any sight (wasRE: still more on bug) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 09:46:00PM -0600, Glenn wrote: > I've never used the wrist strap, as I always have my arms on the chassis > for > stability. I suppose that's fine, as long as you make sure the part of the chassis your skin is in contact with isn't painted. Greg - -- web site: http://www.romuald.net.eu.org gpg public key: http://www.romuald.net.eu.org/pubkey.asc skype: gregn1 (authorization required, add me to your contacts list first) - -- Free domains: http://www.eu.org/ or mail dns-manager at EU.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAk87N04ACgkQ7s9z/XlyUyCK9wCgtr6hUFOQFr25gztzCsQ4v1m1 XLgAoJB3gqhM9lvnfnEhcqNiwX0cDLgN =BOB6 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup at braille.uwo.ca http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup