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Long ago, I worked for my uni's departmental IT group. We made our own etherkiller, hung it on the wall with a sign "USE IN CASE OF SUN". Never used it in ang
by hprotagonist 8y ago
Long ago, I worked for my uni's departmental IT group.
We made our own etherkiller, hung it on the wall with a sign "USE IN CASE OF SUN".
Never used it in anger, but it was fun to dream about...
- mackal 8y agoIn one class we we're building a custom circuit to talk to a custom 8-bit computer over the ISA bus. I accidentally put one chip upside down (it was some off brand and I mistook a scuff on one end for the marker for which way is up) and killed the DOS PC :P The custom 8-bit computer was fine though.
- Gibbon1 8y agoClassic was inserting an old 16k DRAM backwards. Hmm... something smells hot... touch touch touch sound of screaming
- gattilorenz 8y agoOr inverting the two halves of the AT power connector
- Gibbon1 8y agoAlways a bit terrifying powering up the MB for the first time.
- jwilk 8y ago> USE IN CASE OF SUN What does it mean?
- vortico 8y agoSun Microsystems maybe?
- chronolitus 8y agoCould imply that should it be sunny outside, the etherkiller allows creating an outage which leads to taking the day off?
- hprotagonist 8y agoWe had made an ill-considered deal with Sun Microsystems for a bunch of workstations maybe 18 months before they went away for good. The machines were badly laid out, poorly specced, and prone to annoying failures. They deserved, but did not receive, mains power right to the ethernet port.