Bah

[timill]

So I went and bought myself a 256Mb thumb drive today, as I can see situations in which it couldd be useful & stuff.

Tried it. Didn't work. Back to the store: still didn't work, so swapped it for one that did.

Tried the new one. This time the magic smoke came out and the (presumably USB) mouse has stopped working as well.

Bah.

In other news, Marcia should be home tomorrow, we hope. They seem to have decided that a slight temperature is her normal reaction to surgery, but they're doing a few tests to check.

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[timill]

Sumsvision or something. I'm pretty sure it's the port, and I suspect it's putting mains across terminals that should only have 5V. :-(

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

Doubt it's mains, at least I hope not. Ought to be pretty well isolated.

[timill]

That's what I thought too. Put in drive, base unit powers down, magic smoke comes out of drive...

Fortunately the guys who sold me the drive also built the base unit earlier this year, so they're kinda stuck (I hope).