[LAD] [Somewhat OT] Strange failure mode of a PC

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Sat, 2010-07-17 at 22:07 +0100, Folderol wrote:
> On Sat, 17 Jul 2010 22:46:01 +0200
> fons at kokkinizita.net wrote:
> 
> > Still it's quite sobering that this cheap 0.30 Euro thing
> > was capable of bringing down a 1600 Euro workstation...  
> > Who would suspect a switch to fail in this way ?
> > 
> > Ciao,
> 
> Not the least bit surprised. In my industry crappy membrane switches
> bring £3,000,000 printing presses to a halt :(

I'm also not surprised, even for very expensive switches at least the
debouncing isn't that good as it should be.