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Computer Voodoo?
jbeaupre asks: "A corollary to 'Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic' is that sometimes users have to resort to what I call 'computer voodoo.' You don't know why it works, you barely care how it works, but you find yourself doing the strangest things because it just seems to work. I'm talking about things like: smacking a PC every 5 seconds for an hour to keep it from stalling on a hard drive reformat (with nary a problem after the reformat); or figuring out the only way to get a PC partially fried by lightning to recognize an ethernet card, after booting into Windows, is to start the computer by yanking the card out and shoving it back in (thereby starting the boot processes). What wacky stuff have you done that makes no obvious sense, but just works?"
I have a computer wich will not boot up, unless I eather connect a new powered periphial, or disconnect a currect one (latly ive been unplugging/plugging in the floppy drive every other boot). If I dont it powers up for about half a second, then crashes. Besides this problem it has run for 2 years without a problem. (got it cheap but no warrenty and made it a linux box only time its powered off is when ive had to move or theres been a power outage of more than 20 minutes)
Apparently your spellcheck program is also broken.
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