my usb port on my laptop got broken
and i sort of fixed it with some silver foil and some cardboard(!) and it worked ok, but if the foil touched two pins at the same time the machine just rebooted.
(Brad Dice, Sun 3 Jul 2005, 22:11, archived)

Blue Peter would be proud

( Enigmatic ™                 Voice No More                  ©, Sun 3 Jul 2005, 22:12, archived)