From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue May 2 23:37:14 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id XAA02906 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 2 May 1995 23:37:14 -0700 Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id XAA02898 for ; Tue, 2 May 1995 23:37:01 -0700 Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de with SMTP (5.67b+/DEC-Ultrix/4.3) id AA05003; Wed, 3 May 1995 08:33:09 +0200 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id IAA28633 for hackers@FreeBSD.org; Wed, 3 May 1995 08:33:07 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.9) id IAA18258 for hackers@FreeBSD.org; Wed, 3 May 1995 08:05:04 +0200 From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199505030605.IAA18258@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Soldering irons [Was Re: looking for IP over printer...] To: hackers@FreeBSD.org Date: Wed, 3 May 1995 08:05:04 +0200 (MET DST) Reply-To: hackers@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <9505030116.AA14628@brasil.moneng.mei.com> from "Joe Greco" at May 2, 95 08:16:29 pm Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 733 Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Joe Greco wrote: > [nice cabling story deleted -- yes, i'm also used to prepare cables myself] > But for the everyday hacker, who isn't comfortable with a soldering iron, I > might be inclined to agree with you. This reminds me the guy asking in Usenet if he could use a Sun optical mouse at a PC, too. My answer ``I've did it. I've simply replaced Data General's [where my mouse was from] Mini-DIN-connector by a DB-9 connector.'' -- ``How did you do this exactly?'' -- ``Very simple: i've cut off the Mini-DIN and soldered a DB-9 instead.'' -- ``Oooh, I see: very simple.'' :-) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)