From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@coraid.com>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] mouse re-plug
Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2007 09:49:02 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <668198a53fd6389d2358f482ff5dce4d@coraid.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3e1162e60708020640k4d6aca38m788c91493ca73486@mail.gmail.com>
ymmv. some computers don't mind being replugged. we do it to servers
all the time.
at home i use a cheep kvm ($29 at frys) to avoid replugging machines.
- erik
> >
> > > if i unplug the ps2 mouse from running terminal box, and then plug it in
> > again,
> >
> > I don't think you should be doing this, the ps2 interface is not
> > hot-plugable,
> > in theroy you can kill your mouse or computer doing this - though I never
> > have.
> >
> > -Steve
> >
>
> I used to have a metal keyboard on an old 286. I had on hand on it with the
> other dangling down when my cat rubbed up and gave me a static shock... the
> computer's speaker then went on and stayed on.
>
> It's amazing what you can do to a computer with a PS2 port :-) (or was that
> an AT port).
>
> Luckilly it wasn't completely dead, but I think it didn't like "extra power"
> I applied. I've also not seen a metal keyboard case in a while. Good old
> Packard Bell Legend V and it's 16MHz of glory.
>
> Dave
prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-08-02 13:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-08-02 7:38 cej
2007-08-02 12:21 ` Steve Simon
2007-08-02 13:40 ` David Leimbach
2007-08-02 13:49 ` erik quanstrom [this message]
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