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Computer tip of the day

Computer components do not like it when you insulate them with the tinfoil from easter eggs. Somehow a bit of tinfoil from a chocolate egg found its way into a compact flash to pcmcia adapter, and the computer promptly started freaking out every time we tried to use the adapter.

And after plugging a compact flash card into the chocolate-egged adapter, there's no way to get the tinfoil out without prying the adapter apart and ending up with a naked adapter card.