[linux-audio-dev] Re: [linux-audio-user] disaster day #1

Fred Gleason fredg at salemradiolabs.com
Tue Jun 7 11:35:56 UTC 2005


On Tuesday 07 June 2005 04:06, Jonathan Woithe wrote:
> I've been told from a reputable source that it wasn't actually the mobo
> factories which did the dirty as such.  An electrolyte formula was
> apparently stolen from a factory, copied at another and then stolen *again*
> and passed to a third.  It was the resulting capacitors from the third
> factory which, falsely branded as a reputable brand, found their way into
> all these mainboards which have been dying over the past 3 or so years.

For the full story, see:

	http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/WEBONLY/resource/feb03/ncap.html

Cheers!


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