A story with a moral

[Dante]

Once upon a time there was a computer. It wasn't a perfect computer, the fan sounded like a tractor for a start, but it functioned. Then one day the computer refused to switch on. The computer's owner looked at it himself, and called in friends to help. They spent a very long time taking bits off the computer and tightening wires and examining switches and the like, and found that the computer would turn on provided that it was held horizontally, away from its habitual resting place, and with the covers taken off.

This was not a satisfactory arrangement and so various problem solvers were tried. Power supplies were bought and switched, fans were bought and switched, and then a day later the computer turned on properly, but refused to boot up. It was just a blank screen. This duely upset the computer's owner, who had decided that enough was enough and took it into town for other clever people to examine.

The clever people spent a very long time looking at the computer, switching and testing various bits and pieces and running everything they knew. Some said it was the motherboard, others blamed the power supply. Some said that it was merely a faulty switch.

Then the computer was tested without one of its two hard drives and, revelation! It functioned perfectly. This hard drive was then tested through and through, and found to be faulty. It was evil. Its very presence had prevented the rest of the computer from working! This hard drive was cast out of the computer, and a replacement procured.

The hard drive itself? This is the moral of the story:

Do not play silly buggers with *me.* (See attachment)[attachment archived by Gobalopper]

[The_Sadukar]

Jarr! Owned jarr!

[Andrew]

I take it the hardrive was smashed against the ground.

Was your data backed up?

[Super-ness]

DONT BACK UP EVIL HARD DRIVES!!

[Dante]

Everything on the hard drive was lost forever. Fortunately there wasn't much on it and though I mourn the loss of those oversized bitmaps, I can live without them.

And I was much more imaginative than to just use the ground! I used two different sizes of sledgehammer, a vice, and a tree stump. This is why it is now bent at a 90 degree angle and stuffed with rotten wood chips. >:D

[syeline]

remind me to NEVER EVER get on your bad side ever lol. i dont wanna be found at a 90 degree angle with rotten wood chips stuck in me