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On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 12:03 PM, Michael Mol <mikemol@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 1:02 PM, Michael Mol <mikemol@×××××.com> wrote: |
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>> On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 12:17 PM, Paul Hartman |
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>> <paul.hartman+gentoo@×××××.com> wrote: |
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>>> On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 4:09 AM, Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk> wrote: |
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>>>> Yes, I have blown a UART chip by hotplugging a serial cable, because I'd |
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>>>> got away with it before. |
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>>> |
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>>> The strangest thing I fried via hotplug was an Ethernet card via cat5 |
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>>> cable insertion! It made a little electrical "pop" sound and that was |
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>>> the end of that. |
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>>> |
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>>> Actually, I nearly fried myself once when hotplugging coaxial cable TV |
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>>> wire into my television while everything was powered on. The shock |
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>>> launched me -- caused me to launch myself, probably -- up into the air |
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>>> and against a door, fully upright, from a seated position on the |
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>>> floor. In case anyone is concerned: the TV was unharmed. :) |
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>> These weren't at the same locale, were they? That sounds like really |
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>> electrical ground. |
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> |
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> *like a really bad electrical ground. (htf?) |
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The ethernet incident happened at work, which should be grounded, |
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however it was in a cubicle... a cubicle that would give you the |
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tingles if you touched its metallic edges. |
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The TV was at my parents' house in the 1980's, an old home that |
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certainly does not have grounded electrical outlets. Plus I was |
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probably scooting around tall carpet in socks or something prior to |
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it. :) |
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