At 22:24 30/12/2002 -0800, Doug Hardie wrote:
The one server that I have responsibility for (mailserver running FreeBSD
4.6) took awhile to get rewired properly. When it was yanked out, some of
the internal cables were disconnected. Had to find the motherboard book
to figure out how to set
Jim Durham wrote:
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That's an excellent idea because the alcohol will absorb the water (I
believe the correct term is that water is misable in alcohol), so when
the alcohol evaporates it takes the water with it.
Yes, water and alcohol are misable in any proportions, but there's slightly
On Tuesday, Dec 31, 2002, at 02:32 US/Pacific, Rob O'Donnell wrote:
If it's a PS/2 type keyboard connector (small plug) there is a plastic
pin that often gets broken off and left in the socket if connectors
are pulled out violently, blocking a new keyboard being inserted.
(Seen it often with
Drink it.
Water and alcohol have quite different somatic effects.
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Cliff Sarginson
The Netherlands
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On Tue, Dec 31, 2002 at 01:22:37PM -0800, Doug Hardie wrote:
On Tuesday, Dec 31, 2002, at 02:32 US/Pacific, Rob O'Donnell wrote:
If it's a PS/2 type keyboard connector (small plug) there is a plastic
pin that often gets broken off and left in the socket if connectors
are pulled out
On Tue, Dec 31, 2002 at 12:07:41PM -0800, Gary W. Swearingen wrote:
Chuck Swiger [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Jim Durham wrote:
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That's an excellent idea because the alcohol will absorb the water
(I believe the correct term is that water is misable in alcohol), so
when the
Listen.
I have a friend, an electronic genius.
He, one night dunked his incredibly expensive, state of the art. mobile
phone in a glass of Baileys Irish Cream Whiskey,
The next day he washed it in distilled water.
It works again.
The only moronic thing about him is that he uses a mobile phone.
My church had a fire in the computer room today. The equipment was not
directly damaged by the fire as the sprinkler system put it out very
quickly. However, the sprinklers ran directly on the equipment for a
couple hours. There are several servers, routers, hubs etc. Most of
them had
I have carefully dried out all the units.
You may want to use some distilled water, or very clean water, if there is
any visible residue/chalk/salt on the boards.
What I normally do with WiFi equipment which got wet/soaked is to rinse
them well with very clean water and then dry them in an
On Mon, 30 Dec 2002, Dirk-Willem van Gulik wrote:
I have carefully dried out all the units.
You may want to use some distilled water, or very clean water, if there is
any visible residue/chalk/salt on the boards.
After that, you can rinse it with isopropyl(sp) alcohol, this is the alcohol
you had was not salt, you probably don't need to do this, but I
mentioned it just to show that most modern solid state gear with sealed
chips is pretty resistant to water damage, as the gear would work after
we dried it out. As was mentioned, power supplies are the worst, as the
voltages can
Thanks for all the suggestions. Here is the latest update. The water
from the sprinklers was purer than that from the tap. There was no
residue from it anywhere. A bit of head (oven and hair drier used) and
it was easily evaporated. However, all of the units except for one
router were
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