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LJ Interests meme results

1. being better than you:
   For all five of you out there who might remember EA Sports' old ad campaign, which included the shutdown line, "I'm better than you, and I can prove it."
   
   Hi, I'm Rafe. You'll be losing to me and my ego this evening.
2. building computers:
   Have screwdriver, will travel. A pile of boxes to a working desktop in two hours or less, or you can keep what's left of the six-pack it cost ya.
3. clank:
   As in, "Things that go _____ in the night."
4. d/s:
   The joys of discapitalization. Not for the kids.
5. hockey:
   The One True Sport.
6. industrial music:
   Pretty self-explanatory.
7. meteorology:
   The Fearless Freak Forecast might break into prime time some day.
8. overclocking:
   Free horsepower inside the magic box is fun to dig up. I've got 50% extra out of my CPU and 15% from my video card. That's $400, just for having balls and some savvy. :-)
9. sil and rafe 2008:
   We The People and Wild Turkey Party share initials. Coincidence?
10. writing:
    I should probably strike this. I'm not a writer; I'm someone who occasionally phrases something cleverly.

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Comments

[lil-m-moses.livejournal.com]

Speaking of building computers - random question for you. I'm guessing I just didn't ground something properly, but if I touch anything to one of the Firewire or USB ports on the front of my machine, the machine reboots. Plugging the camera into a cable that's already plugged into the computer is fine, though. Have an idea where I should look first?

[etcet.livejournal.com]

yep, that sounds like a grounding issue. pop the case and check the small bundle of wires that run from the front-panel jacks to the motherboard. my guess is that either a) one of the ground wires isn't plugged into the mobo properly (easy to fix) or b) there's a short where the jacks terminate at the front of the case/frame (trickier, but seems more likely).

going by your description, if the problem isn't immediately evident, it sounds like your system works just fine if you shut it down, plug cables in, then reboot? how tenable is jacking a usb and firewire cable in, and then just leaving 'em there, other than the aesthetic badness?

[lil-m-moses.livejournal.com]

I just leave the camera cable plugged in at this point - I don't care how it looks. The only issue comes when someone else doesn't know about the issue and tries to plug something in, or inadvertently brushes the jacks. I covered the Firewire ports with tape for the time beign, since I don't have any Firewire equipment, but the USB's still hanging out there. Sounds like something I should sit down and check out this weekend - thanks! =)

[etcet.livejournal.com]

my guess would be that there's something either wrong with the jack itself internally, or that it's shorting out against the case/frame when a cable's inserted.