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Ooo! You don't want to do that! There is (or was in them days) a soldered in fuse on the MB (it looked like s green, bandless resistor) on the keyboard line. If you plugged the KB in while the power was on, there was a good chance the fuse would blow - and your PC would see a keyboard again until you got out the solder sucker and welding iron...and as far as I know it's still there...
(It became a white box on all-SMT boards: http://www.classicacorn.freeuk.com/32bit_repairs/ps2_fuse/ps2_fuse.html[^])
The only instant messaging I do involves my middle finger.
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The Thot Plickens!
I read that and it made perfect sense!
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I wondered where my glasses had gone.
Hand 'em back, c'mon!
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Pro noblem; print it and stick it on the wall. That's what I did.
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At work, the coffee stand offers only Ricoffy[^] instant, and the stuff is only just drinkable. So, I buy my own Jacobs[^], at close to ZAR100 (USD10) for a jar and keep it at my desk, carrying it to the coffee station and back to make a cup. Last week I left it there and forgot, and on Monday it was gone.
Now, if not for the law, I would plant another jar of Jacobs liberally laced with Datura Stramonium, and let the thief trip his head off in hell for the three days after his first cup. Then, again if not for law, and HR, I would pack it stock full of laxative, but administering a medication without the recipient's knowledge might get me a final written warning at best.
So, I have come up with a harmless, but - for the thief of course - highly embarrassing revenge: I will fill an empty Jacobs jar with cheap coffee and loads of strong purple, pink, or green dye. The thief will have to explain to their boss when they ask to go home, or remain at work with a brightly coloured face, with everyone having being emailed as to why.
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Surely it is YOUR coffee and you desperately need to take that laxative.
You cannot help it if someone else steals your medication and takes it!
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Obscurum per obscurius.
Ad astra per alas porci.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur .
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Laxative is for sissies. Let's go with cyanide.
I love the dye thing, though.
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Do not feed the troll ! - Common proverb
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The correct course of action, when it turns out to be your boss, who believes he has the right to help himself to the possessions of underlings, is to ensure that the bouncing ball of responsibility drops squarely in the lap of a duckweed that gets on your nerves.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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It wouldn't be my boss or our department head, but maybe someone else of similar stature with the belief you describe. For their benefit, I am going to clearly write on the jar, "This is not yours."
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pleeeeaaase tell us the outcome!
 
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Food left out in the break room would often be considered public domain, at least in the US.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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Fine, help yourself to a teaspoon or two and enjoy a cup. Don't take the whole, brand new and full, jar.
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True. Perhaps it was so good that many people enjoyed it.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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Kleptomaniac - doesn't even like coffee.
Peter Wasser
Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.
Frank Zappa
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RyanDev wrote: Food left out in the break room would often be considered public domain, at least in the US.
In the UK it might be considered public demesne, but that's because we speak English.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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RyanDev wrote: would often be considered public domain
That's one hell of a way to justify taking other people's stuff.
Does everyone "know" that it's limited to food? How do you know?
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Really? Have you never worked in an office? People bring in cakes, cookies, vegetables from the garden, etc, and leave it out in the break room for everyone. It's been very common everywhere I have worked.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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RyanDev wrote: People bring in cakes, cookies, vegetables from the garden, etc, and leave it out in the break room for everyone. It's been very common everywhere I have worked.
That's common here too. The difference being that no-one will touch it without express permission.
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Quote: The difference being that no-one will touch it without express permission.
Well, you're just not very friendly then. 
If it's in the fridge, it's off limits. But if it is sitting on the table, it's in public domain.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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But that is a bogus claim. Food stored in the break-room belongs to the owner not to the scavenger in every State I have worked. The truly sad part is that no matter how nice the company or big or professional, human nature always reveals itself.
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I agree. In our office it's there for anyone unless it has a name written on it.
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Try putting some loud buzzer, a luggage alarm perhaps, inside the jar and have it connected to the cover.
When somebody will open it... (I leave it to your imagination)
Simple and no harm done.
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Check Sue-de-Nime's cubicle he just bragged about nicking a can.
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Why not just label your jar with your name? Did your coworkers know it was your personal jar of coffee?
/ravi
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They knew it was somebody's personal jar of coffee, because as I explained, the company only provides one, cheap brand of coffee, and it is contained in well known containers.
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