Debugging droid mta

[Russell Reiter]

Actually that was a bit of a joke. What I believe happened is some of
the transformer windings shorted out. Since they are wound as bare
wires but then covered by a coat of varnish by the manufacturer, I
think I can assume a short.

The only data I have at hand re: transformers comes from an old tlug
presentation from 2000, but the subject was latex markup and I kept
the handout, my favorite haiku. :-)

Yesterday it worked
Today it does not
Windows is like that

What happened in my case was, I had just set up my new place after
moving, computer first of course. I turned on the radio and made a cup
of tea. What I didn't hear was the cooling fans winding up. What I did
smell, I thought was coming from the burner. The lady who moved out
had left the place spotless, I thought there was a little soap or
other residue on the burner. The rest is history, so is PotAuFeu.
Rescued from a harsh and abusively controlling OS you were a trusty
old sod. I upgraded someone, got a sandbox out of the deal and Open
Source got another Linux user. Under pressure I will set up dual boot
for someone, but they have to talk me into it.

On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 2:11 PM, Scott Allen <mlxxxp-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> On 22 November 2011 12:03, Russell Reiter <rreiter91-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
>> Anyone know what a burnt resistor smells like?
>
> It depends on the type of resistor and the materials that it's made
> from. As Lennart stated, generally it's not very pleasant.
>
> --
> Scott
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