On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 1:02 PM, Michael Mol <mike...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 12:17 PM, Paul Hartman > <paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 4:09 AM, Neil Bothwick <n...@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?) -- :wq
