We see this hair-raising sights in many, many offices in Phuket. While buying expensive computer equipment, many people forget to take care about small simple things like the proper power connectors. Most of the power extender bars sold in Phuket are actually a real fire hazard. Their brass contacts are very weak and do not have enough spring action to hold the power adapters tightly. In many cases they are sparking with the slight movements of the cables. They are often located in dusty places behind the desks or cabinets; dust can be easily ignited by the spark.

People having this kind of connections at home or office are also usually suffering from constant equipment failures. Do I need to mention what most modems, routers or access points on the island are not connected to the UPS units, while they supposed to be? It’s difficult to find the proper connectors sometimes, especially for APC UPSes, but it must be done if you want your equipment to last…

Danger:

Proper way:

The only power bars we found on Phuket what have good enough contacts are WonPro power bars sold in Home Pro:

High Tech Misery in China article describes the awful working conditions in one of the keyboard-making factories in China. This is one reason what the hardware is so inexpensive these days.

Changed the laguage for Nokia 5800 XpressMusic to russian for the customer. The phone was bought in Malaysia. The number of hoops to jump through to do this is amazing. Had to change the product code to Ukrainian as the new 20.x firmware is for some crazy reason is not available for Russia, and had to find the firware download as the Nokia Software Updater is not listing any firmware updates for Ukraine or Russia. All the manipulations with IPhone look much easier after Nokia

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