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In message <[log in to unmask]>, Wirt Atmar
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>In more hot news on demon-possessed computers front, it appears that it's not
>only Macintoshes that are possessed, but PCs as well. One minister claims
>that a startling 10% of all PCs are possessed by a demonic spirit, but only
>in those PCs built after 1985. Only those machines are large enough to
>completely hold the spirit of a demon.
>
>However the reverend does recommend that if your PC is possessed -- and is
>still under warranty -- that you return it to the point of purchase and have
>the technicians change out the hard drive and reinstall all of the software.
>That will completely exorcise the wicked spirit.
>
>By chance, that's exactly the same advice I give some our customers when they
>report really screwy problems too with their PCs.

It's not enough - you have to change the bus as well, to be sure.
After all, it might be a succubus, or even an incubus...
either way, such things lie heavily upon me :-)

(A glance at my headers may startle you as well
 - and all the access numbers end in 666)

--
Roy Brown        'Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be
Kelmscott Ltd     useful, or believe to be beautiful'  William Morris

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