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   From: Wolfgang.Schelongowski@gmx.de   
      
   TJ  writes:   
      
   [occasionally faulty connecrtions]   
      
   >That problem has plagued personal computers since the beginning. ...   
      
   Let me correct that:   
   >That problem has plagued          computers since the beginning.   
      
   You know what was one of the main occupations of the hardware   
   maintenance crew of the computing center of the local university   
   in the seventies? Banging against the gazillion of cards of the   
   CPU/core memory of the mainframe with a rubber hammer, one after the   
   other. When a fault occurred, they removed the card, cleaned the   
   contacts with a rubber eraser, and reseated the card. This method   
   appears to be GNU-copylefted :)   
   --   
   The first entry of Sin into the mind occurs when, out of cowardice or   
   conformity or vanity, the Real is replaced by a comforting lie.   
     -- Integritas, Consonantia, Claritas   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)