[ILUG] anti-spam thing...

[Dave Airlie]

pulled a network card out of my machine once mid way through someone
saying "is that still switched on?"...

didn't do any harm to anyone it didn't :-)

Dave.

On Mon, 7 Jan 2002, Niall O Broin wrote:

> On Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 09:57:37AM +0000, John P. Looney wrote:
>
> >  I'd like to add "all easily removeable devices should be hot swappable".
>
> Hmm - bit of a stretch to say that
>
> Remove case screws.
> Remove case lid (often by application of considerable force and at cost in
> blood).
> Remove slot screw.
> Grasp card firmly and pull upwards.
>
> ==
>
> easily removeable
>
> > Compact flash IDE Adapters for instance.
>
> Is this the little gubbins that plugs onto an IDE cable instead of a disk.
> Does it object to being removed with power on ? In any event, see above,
> with the exception of the latter two steps.
>
> >  The last thing you want after a stressed afternoon trying to work out why
> > pam is not letting root login on your nice new shiny distro, is to get a
> > poxy electric shock every time you try and push in a new flash card into a
> > test box.
>
> Hmm - so much static that you can feel it - gives one a warm and fuzzy
> feeling about the likely reliability of a Sentinel box, no ? (the most
> insidious effect of static damage is not breaking a part because then you
> know it's broken and don't deploy it. But often static will damage and
> insulation layer on a chip, considerably reducing its thickness and making
> it much more likely to fail in service. In service failures are to be
> avoided on things like satellites or, say, super duper firewall boxes :-)
>
>
>
> Niall
>
>

-- 
David Airlie, Software Engineer
http://www.skynet.ie/~airlied / airlied at skynet.ie
pam_smb / Linux DecStation / Linux VAX / ILUG person