On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 2:06 PM, Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 12:03 PM, Michael Mol <mike...@gmail.com> wrote: >> 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?) > > 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
