On Wed, Nov 11, 2015 at 02:17:59PM -0800, Keith Lofstrom wrote: > It would be nice to find a more expensive drive dock with > thicker gold plating. It would also be nice if test labs > would measure this stuff and publish results in something > like what Consumer Reports used to be, before they devolved > into knob counting and political opinions.
That was way too passive-consumer-wussy. I found this on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wYza_M8WVf0 We can actually replate the gold connectors ourselves, if we can locate the no-doubt-toxic chemicals. And perhap we can find a grad student at PSU who can assay connector surfaces (x ray scattering?). It would be interesting to post the numbers for connectors from various manufacturers on the web, and watch the accusations fly. What does this have to do with Linux? Every copy of Linux ever distributed has passed through gold contacts, somewhere along the data transmission chain. So there. Keith -- Keith Lofstrom [email protected] _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
