I crashed Linux

[dogbert at clue4all.net (Brian J. Conway)]

> Too bad the keyboard and mouse cables never have those little  screws
> like  the  monitor  has  that  prevents fallout.  Of course, the real
> idiocy here is that plugging the mouse back in didn't make  it  start
> working again. I'd guess that's probably a hardward idiocy, though it
> is probably exacerbated by some matching software idiocy.

True, unfortunately, your generic PS/2 port is NOT hot-pluggable.  Some
systems seem to handle it fine and keep on chugging, on the other hand,
I've destroyed a motherboard (maybe two) that didn't like having a PS/2
cable plugged in while the power was on.  Damn shame.

-b


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