Cleansing Hardware Of Dead Pig Odors?

Chagatai writes "My company is one of America's largest beef and pork producers. Recently I took a trip to see a new computer room that had been built at one of our abbatoirs. While the new environment is nice and sanitary, the old computer room had air intakes that were adjacent to the rendering portion of the plant, and everything smells in an almost unholy way. Management is curious if there are any cleaning agents or means of deodorizing this equipment before moving it into the nice, new office. The only products I could find would clean the outside of the hardware, but the internals would still possess the lovely aroma of boiled dead pig parts. Of course, this is a race against time, as I am sure someone will inevitably squirt Pine-Sol into the system to try to make things better. Does anyone have any recommendations to remove the effluvium of post-mortem porcine matter from our machines?"

Comments

One word: Ebay

[Brento]

You're missing a prime chance to pull a real stunt.

One word: Ebay.

Put it all up for auction simultaneously, and watch the fun as people get their newly won purchases. I'd love to read that feedback. "Great PowerEdge, but I've never had computer equipment smell unholy before." And then, watch mass psychology at work as people read each other's feedback from the same vendor and start to put two and two together.

The only thing funnier would be to work at Paypal and hear people squirm as they try to justify asking for a refund. "You gotta believe me, this disk array smells bad. Really bad. Like dead meat bad."

Re:One word: Ebay

[abb3w]

You're also missing the prime opportunity to get your ass sued into the poorhouse

They'd have to be a really good lawyer to get pain and suffering damage from that, but you might have to refund the sales price & shipping both ways and pay the lawyer... unless the judge rules the "DOA" guarantee makes you liable for the death of the buyer on opening the package. =)

Still, it's a fun ad to imagine writing... "Used dual 3.0 Xeon server 8 GB RAM Gigabit ethernet; removed from industrial environment. Works fine. No visible damage. Still, head of our IT department insists this machine stinks, so we're upgrading." (It would help if your IT department head is a Mac enthusiast.)

Make sure to save a copy of the ad for your court date. "But your honor, the machine is exactly as described...." "Exhibit A, your honor, the machine in question." "Dear GOD, get that thing out of my courtroom!"

Amazing

[ryants]

You have a link to the dictionary's entry for "abattoir" and still managed to spell it wrong in the summary.

Bravo.

Re:Amazing

[cbrocious]

You must be new... you actually clicked a link in an article. Oh wait, you're supposed to click it and not read it... that's the key.

Re:Amazing

[ryants]

You must be new... you actually clicked a link in an article. Oh wait, you're supposed to click it and not read it... that's the key.

No, I'm a Slashdot veteran. I just mouse-overed the link, looked at the status bar, and hit "Reply" as fast as I could.

Clicking links? Please...

Rendered with Pride

[Stanistani]

If you can't come up with a solution, I suggest donating the equipment to PETA...

Re:To suggest this is almost criminally stupid

[savagedome]

He also had sticky keys from God knows what

Hmmmm...

*scratches chin*

A real render farm

[thellamaman]

Gives new meaning to the phrase Render Farm, now doesn't it?

How about CHANGING the smell?

[wernst]

I was chuckling over this story to myself when my wife asked what was so funny, and she suggested "Why not bring it to a skunk farm?

Why not indeed.

Re:To suggest this is almost criminally stupid

[arose]

Wouldn't it be 99% poison?

Re:Febreze!!

[AndroidCat]

I've seen the commercials. The drugs in that stuff keep people opening their closets for another snort until they faint and fall over.