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From: Anthony Martin <ality@pbrane.org>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] ohci funny on sb850
Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2011 20:36:13 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110115043613.GA6681@dinah> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <849143e8da4c35a62e4988e7dc3e521e@proxima.alt.za>

lucio@proxima.alt.za once said:
> I wonder how that happened?  Every hardware problem I have diagnosed
> and occasionally fixed in the last few years, from motherboards to CRT
> monitors to external power supplies (mains voltage converters) has
> boiled down to one or more 10μF electrolytics packing up.  How many
> faulty capacitors were manufactured and deployed?  By whom?
> Intentionally?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacitor_plague
http://www.deadprogrammer.com/the-capacitor-plague

  Anthony



  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-01-15  4:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-01-15  3:33 erik quanstrom
2011-01-15  4:29 ` lucio
2011-01-15  4:33   ` erik quanstrom
2011-01-15  4:48     ` lucio
2011-01-15  4:36   ` Anthony Martin [this message]
2011-01-15  9:24   ` Steve Simon
2011-01-15  9:35     ` lucio
2011-01-19  4:51       ` Ethan Grammatikidis
2011-01-15 14:58     ` erik quanstrom
2011-01-15 15:08       ` Duke Normandin
2011-01-19  6:50       ` Akshat Kumar
2011-01-19 12:09         ` erik quanstrom

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