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Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2012 14:22:55 -0400
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] UPS and serial or USB connections
From: Michael Mol <mikemol@gmail.com>
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On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 2:06 PM, Paul Hartman
<paul.hartman+gentoo@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 12:03 PM, Michael Mol <mikemol@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 1:02 PM, Michael Mol <mikemol@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 12:17 PM, Paul Hartman
>>> <paul.hartman+gentoo@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 4:09 AM, Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.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?)
>
> The ethernet incident happened at work, which should be grounded,
> however it was in a cubicle... a cubicle that would give you the
> tingles if you touched its metallic edges.
>
> The TV was at my parents' house in the 1980's, an old home that
> certainly does not have grounded electrical outlets. Plus I was
> probably scooting around tall carpet in socks or something prior to
> it. :)
I've nothing to say but that you've given me ample entertainment
today. (and your boss was lucky you hadn't fried the network
switch...) :)
--
:wq