Re: FreeBSD > 4.11 hardware issue with Asus PSCH-SR/SATA mobo

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On 2006-06-12, Chronos <chronos@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I could also tell you a story about me, a cable, a large warehouse,
a fork-lift truck and a very old pallet, but then I'd have to go and
take a sedative. I still get vertigo just *thinking* about it...

I feel your pain. For some reason, I did a bit of standing on 4 metre
high ladders in highschool. That ladder looked like a capital lambda,
with an effectively invisible (steel) holder cable at ankle height.
There were also lots of other schoolkids being less than superstitious
enough, far too often. I have been tempted to drop the pulleys and other
heavy stuff (stage lighting and so on) involved, though.

A bit later, I had a job that also involved standing on comparably
high ladders, tending to some dancing's innards. The interesting
features there weren't so much the random unrelated surprises, or the
uncharted cabling, some right in the open and still carrying 220V, as
the occasional electrification of the overhead cabling duct itself. I
hear they finally overhauled the wiring with the specific objective of
eliminating random electrification.

Still, in some ways that job was much better than the systems
administration that followed. And not merely because, o surprise, that
also involved things like ripping at least half the cables out of the
racks, and still being left with a /kabelsalat/ worthy of some cringe
photo contest.


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