From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263792AbTLHVEe (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 Dec 2003 16:04:34 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263793AbTLHVEe (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 Dec 2003 16:04:34 -0500 Received: from lvs00-fl-n03.valueweb.net ([216.219.253.136]:3979 "EHLO ams003.ftl.affinity.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263792AbTLHVEb (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 Dec 2003 16:04:31 -0500 Message-ID: <3FD4E58E.10605@coyotegulch.com> Date: Mon, 08 Dec 2003 15:56:46 -0500 From: Scott Robert Ladd User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031107 Debian/1.5-3 X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Florin Iucha CC: Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: Of Mice and Linux References: <3FD4BD1B.1060708@coyotegulch.com> <20031208195203.GB28031@iucha.net> In-Reply-To: <20031208195203.GB28031@iucha.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Florin Iucha wrote: > Hrm... you might be onto something here. My Microsoft mouse gave up > around test-10 or so. Then the USB ports started acting funny on my > SIS 745 motherboard... Is it possible for Linux to kill a Microsoft (or any) mouse via the USB port? I hadn't seriously considered that problem... I don't have the proper test equipment to check the voltages on the USBs to see if something is amiss. And here I was going to write it off as "mouse suicide", the result of a Microsoft mouse becoming depressed because it was attached to a Linux system. (Note: For real humor, I should post a story to Slashdot about how Linux kills Microsoft mice, with misleading anecdotes and undiscovered evidence. But, despite my somewhat off-kilter mood today, I will restrain myself.) -- Scott Robert Ladd Coyote Gulch Productions (http://www.coyotegulch.com) Software Invention for High-Performance Computing