On Tue, 03 Apr 2012 06:04:59 +0100, John Williamson wrote:

The Natural Philosopher wrote:
David Paste wrote:
On Monday, April 2, 2012 10:14:54 PM UTC+1, dennis@home wrote:

The Pi might get killed by PoE.

PoE? What's that?

Proably this

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_over_Ethernet

but what it has to do with a Pi I have no idea..but then it is dennis
who said it, so its pretty much guaranteed to be more or less a techno
wamk fantasy of some sort.

Dennis likes to drop these this in so he can tell you about something
he read about yesterday...

On the other hand ot might be this

http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Poe%27s_Law

which would seem to apply to what dennis laughingly refers to as his
mind.


Just for once, Dennis got something right. The first batch of Rasperry
Pis were made with non-isolating ethernet sockets, and applying Power
Over Ethernet would fry the board. So they had to delay release while
the factory installed the correct sockets with the built-in isolating
transormer.

No, that had nothing to do with the CE approval, which is a second
problem. And the one being discussed here.

dennis leapt in with both feet once again.



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