Ralf Hutter wrote:No, actually that was an attempt at humor, hence the "smiley".
My "...so little mind" reply to you was my over-dried attempt at humor back at you. Here's the winkies that should have followed it

but didn't

I learned all those connections by feel from so many years of dealing with systems that have them all out back where you
can't see them. I was very tired of not seeing them, so my present abomination has got them all out on the front where I can.
I promise to never get pissy on these forums, unless it's purely in the name of fun and attempted humor. I can hardly begin to express how much I appreciate the supurb community here at SPCR. I see very few places on the net with such uniformly excellent attitude, and total lack of pissy hot-headed behaviour.
Cheers
It gets especially bad having the jacks out back when I troubleshoot another visiting machine. Not having a spare monitor, and hating my fuzziness-inducing VGA switch, I would have to do the 'way out back reach-around' over and over and over again, to put the monitor back and forth between my computer and the visiting one. Now everything is out front, so ethernet, VGA, sound, phone can come and go with the greatest of ease. I can also see the little connect LED on my ethernet jack now
