modeller:
[quote author=James C4S link=topic=147221.msg1108453#msg1108453 date=1360255027]
Touché. I stopped reading carefully after the childish "Windoze" comment.
Whatddya mean - it's an official entry in the Urban Dictionary! 
Windoze
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The Arduino platform is OS agnostic and as such there is no real reason to make fun of one OS over the others. The Arduino developers team goes to a lot of extra time and effort supporting the platform across the popular OSs. But I'm sure you didn't mean it maliciously now did you, or did you? See we really couldn't tell from just the context used.
And about the 'infinite ohms' jumper wire, I too have come across a few, but mostly after some use, not bad from the box. It's a typical Asian QC manufacturing problem, some are better then others, but it's worth keeping in mind when starting a troubleshooting effort.
Lefty