11 Nov
2011
11 Nov
'11
4:58 p.m.
On 11/11/11 8:07 AM, Mr Ian Primus wrote:
Was never the slightest bit tempted. Goes against my grain completely.
--T
--- On Thu, 11/10/11, Mouse<mouse at
rodents-montreal.org> wrote:
The EtherKiller I find funny, because I don't really expect
any
significant number of them actually exist.
Sridhar's remark, on the other hand, I do find somewhat
disturbing.
Perhaps I'm just falling for a good deadpan act, but if he
really does
have that thing it does bother me.
I kinda had the opposite reaction. I figured that the whole
"attaching
mains power to data connectors" was a sort of rite of
passage...
something every geek has done at some point. I'd wager that most of us
have some kind of EtherKiller or related device hanging around, if only
for the shock value when someone else sees it. And, of course, for
demonstrating the meaning of the phrase "magic smoke".
>>
At least one. I
call it my "serial killer". Supplies mains
>> voltage to every alternate pin on a
DB25.
> Sounds suspiciously like the BOFH's EtherKiller,
the mains cord with
a BNC
plug on the other end.
Am I the only one who doesn't find this funny? Hint: a 4 pin molex connector at the end of a power
cord will make a
dead hard drive even deader... with fireworks!
> -Ian