[geeks] Cheap multiport PCI 10/100 ethernet cards?

[Lionel Peterson]

> From: Dan Duncan <dand at pcisys.net>
> Date: 2004/08/02 Mon PM 06:47:34 GMT
> To: The Geeks List <geeks at sunhelp.org>
> Subject: Re: Re: [geeks] Cheap multiport PCI 10/100 ethernet cards?

> I used a powered hub on one of those under-the-monitor power centers
> to run my barcode scanner at my previous job so I could switch it
> off easily.  The thing was extremely sensitive to vibration or static
> discharge or something because any time I or the guy in the next cube
> got up from our seats it would go through its startup sequence causing
> my computer to pause while it found a new device and the scanner would
> emit this annoying series of beeps.

That was just it's way of saying "DanD has left the building" ;^)