On 2/19/24 20:29, Andy Smith wrote:
Hello,
On Mon, Feb 19, 2024 at 08:16:49PM -0500, Felix Miata wrote:
I've never heard of this. I did a bit of searching around and all I
can find is assertions that cable colour doesn't matter for SATA. I
can't seem to find anything about red pigment damaging the copper.
Have you got a reference so I can learn more?
Don't you ever read Gene Heskett posts?
Ah I see:
https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2023/06/msg00103.html
Stefan: Can you point to any evidence?
Gene: Just my own life [segue to story from 1970]
The usual story.
Yeah I skipped that thread the first time around owing to its
subject line containing "urban legends".
consider searching this very list's archives.
Moments of my life I will never get back, and no more authoritative
sources unfortunately!
Thanks,
Andy
Andy, look at that CET after my name in the sig, that stands for
Certified Electronics Tachnician. We teach EE's which there are 1000's
of compared to us, what their profs didn't teach them before issuing
that sheepskin they hang on the office wall. I'm also a 1st phone, an
easy test I didn't crack a book for. And I was familiar enough, having
made a living from electronics for 20+ year including the physics of
klystrons when I saw the notice that the test was available so I walked
into the profs classroom and laid my fee for the test on his desk.
Allocated 4 hours, I handed it back to him in 45 minutes. Of 125
questions, I blacked the right box on 123. He I found had been teaching
that course for 5 years, I was the first that passed it. Registered as
NB-116. 20 some years later I checked to see how many had passed since,
they were up to NB-122. That's telling indeed.
Now I'm in my 90th year, and with a fading short term memory and a pita
on this list, but I'm still here till I miss roll call some morning.
Take care and stay well ANDY.
Cheers, Gene Heskett, CET.
--
"There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
-Ed Howdershelt (Author, 1940)
If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable.
- Louis D. Brandeis
