Dusting

[Mark]

The other day I tried to edit my post, I wanted to pull a sentence up into a previous paragraph and I was told I could only edit my own post by this site. As it was my own post, I was perplexed. It was telling me it was not my post.
And on another note, I decided to dust my computer by blowing into the back of it with my mouth. It shot out a blizzard of dust and I choked on it believe it or not. So then, I disconnected 10 wires and carried my computer out into my garage where my air compressor is. Of late, my computer would drone and grind and moan every time I booted it up. Well, it came as a surprise to me when it booted up today as silent as a submarine. But out in the garage, I had to put a fan in the window, the blizzard of dust kicked up by blasting 100 psi inside the electronics and cooling fans was amazing! You would be amazed at the dust a computer can collect in just a few short years. Dust on a grand scale. I have a Dell and the case cracks open or splits in half to reveal the insides. Man, what dust I blew out, you just can't imagine.
Mark

[Mike Kirney]

Oh, I can imagine. A lot of cooling air can move through the computer in the span of several years. Do you smoke, Mark? Smokers always have filthy computers because of all the particulate emmisioins that the fan draws into the case. A fun thing to do is to clean a room meticulously then smoke half a pack in it with the doors and windows closed then go in the next day and check out how dusty everything is. Quite amazing really. It's too bad you didn't open the case right up before you blew in there. It can look really neat with everything all covered in fuzz and with little fuzz stalactites reaching across from component to component, sort of like early morning frost in the late fall, but all grey and fuzzy. If you feel like doing more maintenance, you can remove your CPU, fan and heatsink and clean them extra-well and that will generally restore performance noticeably. I usually run with the case open to prevent dust build-up, but lately mice have been getting in there and pooping on my modem so I put the cover back on. It's good to clean up in there at least once a year I think.

[Bruno Ogorelec]

Shame on you, gentlemen. Open one of my computers (I always have between 2 and 4) and the components in there are shiny as the ass cheeks of a newborn babe, as my late grandmother would say. Maintenance men are always perplexed when they see that and accuse me of having vacuumed it before their arrival. They are wrong, of course.

It all depends on the oldfashioned bit of technology few computer owners think of in terms of computing -- the wife. I still use a 1955 model and have done so for the last 28 years. Some people say I'm oldfashioned, but I wouldn't think of switching to a newer model. They just don't build them like they used to. If you maintain her well, a good wife will last you a lifetime, keep the environment clean and neat, your insides happy and the checkbook balanced.

I've been trying to think of the facility I would like my wife to have that she doesn't and couldn't think of any. Well, perhaps welding. On the other hand, one should probably go to a specialist for such specialist services, right?

To anyone contemplating acquiring a wife, my advice is the same I would give when buying a car -- go for the very best you can afford, maintain well and regularly, exercise some tender loving care and you'll live much longer than most and twice as happily.