Re: Off topic: Computer catastrophes

[Bob Molyneux drdata@xxxxxxxx]

A problem with les pusses? CATastrophe?

Au contraire:
http://www.bitboost.com/pawsense/


> I'm probably going to get flamed for wasting time and bandwidth, but
> Martin's tale of the overzealous housekeeper reminded me of the time a
> friend's kitten strolled across his (open, working) laptop keyboard and
> just managed to hit the keys that invoked the number-pad overlay. The
> friend called me with frantic pleas for help, and when he couldn't find
> the docs that specified the correct keys to hit, I had to tell him to
> shut down and restart.
>
> The point is that all sorts of things like this can cause computer
> problems, and that, of course, complicates debugging and troubleshooting
> enormously. (Cats, much as I like them, are bad news around computers; I
> think I regaled this list with the great cat-modem caper a while back?)
> So perhaps the watchword should be Expect the unexpected or something
> like that.
>
> Patricia


Bob Molyneux
drdata@xxxxxxxx