Re: [gentoo-user] UPS and serial or USB connections

[Michael Mol]

On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 1:02 PM, Michael Mol <mikemol@×××××.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 12:17 PM, Paul Hartman
> <paul.hartman+gentoo@×××××.com> wrote:
>> On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 4:09 AM, Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk> wrote:
>>> Yes, I have blown a UART chip by hotplugging a serial cable, because I'd
>>> got away with it before.
>>
>> The strangest thing I fried via hotplug was an Ethernet card via cat5
>> cable insertion! It made a little electrical "pop" sound and that was
>> the end of that.
>>
>> Actually, I nearly fried myself once when hotplugging coaxial cable TV
>> wire into my television while everything was powered on. The shock
>> launched me -- caused me to launch myself, probably -- up into the air
>> and against a door, fully upright, from a seated position on the
>> floor. In case anyone is concerned: the TV was unharmed. :)
>
> These weren't at the same locale, were they? That sounds like really
> electrical ground.

*like a really bad electrical ground. (htf?)


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