From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Jun 10 8: 2:36 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mail.thpoon.com (cr103675-a.bloor1.on.wave.home.com [24.42.106.79]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8795837B403 for ; Sun, 10 Jun 2001 08:02:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from antipode@thpoon.com) Received: (qmail 46088 invoked from network); 10 Jun 2001 15:02:31 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO tea.thpoon.com) (qmailr@192.168.1.2) by cr103675-a.bloor1.on.wave.home.com with SMTP; 10 Jun 2001 15:02:31 -0000 Received: (qmail 10863 invoked by uid 1000); 10 Jun 2001 15:02:30 -0000 To: Chip Cc: "chat@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: Cats and computers (was: My cat crashed my BSD box) References: <3B206624.132557A6@wiegand.org> From: Arcady Genkin X-Face: 0=A/O5-+sE[Tf%X>rYr?Y5LD4,:^'jaJ!4jC&UR*ZrrK2>^`g22Qeb]!:d;}2YJ|Hq"LHdF OX`jWX|AT-WVFQ(TPhFVak)0nt$aEdlOq=1~D,:\z5QlVOrZ2(H,mKg=Xr|'VlHA="r Mail-Copies-To: never Date: 10 Jun 2001 11:02:30 -0400 In-Reply-To: <3B206624.132557A6@wiegand.org> Message-ID: <87ofrwqsxl.fsf@tea.thpoon.com> Lines: 27 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.4 (Academic Rigor) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Chip writes: > Totally hosed X. Yeah, cats like to find their uses for computer equipment. A friend of mine bought this HP laser printer; he'd been looking for a used one in good condition for a *long* time. To set the context, the story is happening in Russia. There the cats commonly don't have luxury of specially purchased cat litter, and often have to do their things in cat boxes simply lined with newspaper. So, my friend installs the printer on his desk, prints a test page, and, satisfied, goes about some other stuff around the house. The cat, though, decides that the printer is a fancy cat box: it had a tray on the top, which was nicely lined with the paper of the test page. So, the rascal pees in it. p.s. Needless to say, my friend's fury had not limits. But he dedicated his efforts to try to rescue the new purchase. He couldn't think of anything better than to give the printer a bath: he says that there were tiny drops of cat urine all over the lenses etc. It was quite surprising that the printer actually worked after the incident, apparently even better than before, because it received a nice cleaning. :) My friend doesn't leave paper uncollected from the top tray. -- Arcady Genkin i=1; while 1, hilb(i); i=i+1; end To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message