Friday, August 24, 2007
Monday, August 6, 2007
Careful with your headphones
Just a heads-up to anyone who uses headphones with their PC very much.
This is a picture of the laptop I use 99% of the time:
See how the headphone/microphone ports are right next to a pair of USB ports? With nothing between them?
I was distracted just now while plugging in my headphones. Managed to miss the hole, and stuck the plug in my USB port instead. BAM, computer was immediately hard-shutdown. Not sure what got shorted out, but I would have lost any unsaved work. Luckily, on rebooting everything seems to be working fine.
Now to dig out one of my old beater desktops and see how many "mistakes" like this it takes to do permanent damage :-D
This is a picture of the laptop I use 99% of the time:
See how the headphone/microphone ports are right next to a pair of USB ports? With nothing between them?
I was distracted just now while plugging in my headphones. Managed to miss the hole, and stuck the plug in my USB port instead. BAM, computer was immediately hard-shutdown. Not sure what got shorted out, but I would have lost any unsaved work. Luckily, on rebooting everything seems to be working fine.
Now to dig out one of my old beater desktops and see how many "mistakes" like this it takes to do permanent damage :-D
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