Posts by twsm

If you have a fan, and want this company to stay in business, bring it to IT now

Re: Refrigerant or refrigerating fluid?

We had a service engineer let some refrigerant out for about 2 seconds, it immediately set the fire alarms off.

New MacBook Pro beckons fanbois to become strip pokers

Re: Strip or screen...

People who poke at my screen are at risk of having the guilty finger amputated.

Yes I'm happy today.

Hell desk thought PC fire report was a first-day-on-the-job prank

Re: @ DropBear Respect in the tech sector isn't assumed - it's earned.

Volts jolt mAs' kill, an old saying so well less than 3A.

Re: @ DropBear Respect in the tech sector isn't assumed - it's earned.

An anti-static wrist strap has a resistance of between 1 an 10 M ohms, so hardly likely to assist in him electrocuting himself.

HPE is still swinging the layoffs axe: 500 more services folk get chop

Re: Here's what HP does really well...

By putting LED's in series with a transistor to bypass it (to turn it off) you can have three led's (assuming 5V motherboard) for the same current consumption as one LED and a resistor. Not saying that HP did this, but they may have done.

Would YOU start a fire? TRAPPED in a new-build server farm

Re: Design flaw

You have to use the card to get out for security reasons, to prevent you passing your card to somebody outside so they can enter, i.e by pushing the card under the door or give or giving it to somebody who is leaving to allow somebody else to enter.

One company that I visited would not allow you to use your card to mleave if you had not used it to enter, i.e. you cannot need to leave if you have not entered.