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December 15, 2002
Sunday
 
 
Need a firewall?
David Carr (London)  How very odd!

You never know who's trying to get into your computer:

"The phone rings: tech support: "hello computer tech support " customer: "hello my computer was making a strange hissing noise last night and this morning when I turned it on there was a crackling noise and some smoke then nothing, if I bring it in can you fix it?"

This time, though, the intruder was caught on camera.

Comments

That's the latest in flexible, self-installing OS from Microsoft.


Posted by Kevin Connors at December 15, 2002 01:26 AM

And of course the first bug was a real bug [well, a moth]


Posted by Walter E. Wallis at December 15, 2002 04:10 AM

Ha, I don't even want to know how or WHY a snake would want to crawl into a loud computer power supply (maybe it thought it would be toasty?...it was right), but maybe manufacturers should but chickenwire on PS units instead of open grills, I guess small cold blooded animals just can't resist the lure of computer innards. :-)


Posted by Matt W. at December 15, 2002 05:58 AM

Does the Crocodile Hunter do tech support? "Crikey, I've got a black mamba in the power supply!"


Posted by Alan K. Henderson at December 15, 2002 06:06 PM

Maybe it was after his mouse.


Posted by eamon Brennan at December 16, 2002 01:44 PM