09-22-2010, 10:06 AM
If it's on topic here I guess we don't need a new thread. I've got a good title ready for the new thread though: "Her (electro)Magnetic Personality." 
ffg, let me put on my troubleshooting nerd beanie cap from my own call center days.
Sounds to me like a static electricity problem at the call center. Maybe indoor air that's too dry. If that was the problem, touching a piece of metal, like a cubicle bracket, should let the static spark discharge before zapping a person or computer.
I'm always wary about computers on the floor. Too many dangers from static, misplaced kicks, and dust bunnies making the box overheat.
There are so many places electromagnetic radiation can leak in the typical computer setup.
The computer box is supposed to have metal shielding all the way around the unit. But if someone installed some stuff inside and left the holes open (without screwing the plates back in) there can be holes in that cage.
Then the monitor cable can leak more radiation, if its braided shield is not intact or the connectors aren't properly secured. In a rush, people might have shoved in the connector so the screen lights up, but they didn't connect the screws that complete the grounding connection.
Most people in modern nations use flat screens now. They simply turn on a light at each dot to make the picture. Tube monitors put out a lot more energy. The big transformer and other electronics inside guide the electron gun, which blasts a lot of energy at the back face of the screen to light up the dots.
Now we take these computers and wire them up. The wiring might also be unshielded. Replace the electrical wires with fiber optic lines, put them inside conduit (like 1" plastic tubes), and there's no more leakage in or out of the network lines.
More leakage can come with the unshielded keyboard and mouse wires.
Finally all these devices have power cords. If the cords go through a rat's nest of extension cords, they might not all be properly grounded.
So we should put you into a building where everyone uses laptops on desks. Using the laptop's own built in flat screens. Running on batteries and connected by shielded fiber optics. With ample humidity and a grounded metal plate at each desk, far from equipment, to discharge any static before sitting down or shaking hands.
In that environment if you STILL make computers go haywire... then it's definitely you.
ffg, let me put on my troubleshooting nerd beanie cap from my own call center days.
Sounds to me like a static electricity problem at the call center. Maybe indoor air that's too dry. If that was the problem, touching a piece of metal, like a cubicle bracket, should let the static spark discharge before zapping a person or computer.
I'm always wary about computers on the floor. Too many dangers from static, misplaced kicks, and dust bunnies making the box overheat.
There are so many places electromagnetic radiation can leak in the typical computer setup.
The computer box is supposed to have metal shielding all the way around the unit. But if someone installed some stuff inside and left the holes open (without screwing the plates back in) there can be holes in that cage.
Then the monitor cable can leak more radiation, if its braided shield is not intact or the connectors aren't properly secured. In a rush, people might have shoved in the connector so the screen lights up, but they didn't connect the screws that complete the grounding connection.
Most people in modern nations use flat screens now. They simply turn on a light at each dot to make the picture. Tube monitors put out a lot more energy. The big transformer and other electronics inside guide the electron gun, which blasts a lot of energy at the back face of the screen to light up the dots.
Now we take these computers and wire them up. The wiring might also be unshielded. Replace the electrical wires with fiber optic lines, put them inside conduit (like 1" plastic tubes), and there's no more leakage in or out of the network lines.
More leakage can come with the unshielded keyboard and mouse wires.
Finally all these devices have power cords. If the cords go through a rat's nest of extension cords, they might not all be properly grounded.
So we should put you into a building where everyone uses laptops on desks. Using the laptop's own built in flat screens. Running on batteries and connected by shielded fiber optics. With ample humidity and a grounded metal plate at each desk, far from equipment, to discharge any static before sitting down or shaking hands.
In that environment if you STILL make computers go haywire... then it's definitely you.