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Is this the world's dirtiest PC?

Reader snap reveals Quatermass-style horror

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We're obliged to reader Danny Lee for forwarding evidence of what appears to be a Quatermass-style lifeform, which has attached itself to a PC and pretty well explains why the thing had ceased to function:

The world's dirtiest PC, with vents completely blocked by dust

Chilling stuff indeed. Anyone out there who has experienced The Invasion of the Ventblockers is urged not to approach the creature without first firing up a flamethrower, and to forward photographic proof to me right here. Be vigilant. ®

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@Aaron

Err.. no, the question you should ask is how many i's are in Alumin_i_um...

Yank! :P

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That's nothing, my friend's..

computer was emitting a foul smell. Seems the hard drive was full of shit.

So I removed Vista...

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Smoke gets in your device

I had a contract job to clean up a bunch of second-hand rack-mount server boxes that were being recommissioned into a Shiny! new datacentre. They were generally filthy inside which puzzled me; rack-mounted kit doesn't usually suffer from dirty environments. It turned out they had previously been installed in an Irish company's datacentre where the engineers smoked.

I had an intermittently-functioning keyboard in for repair a while back. The usual trick of turning the keyboard upside down and giving it a good shake didn't help much so I opened it up to be met by the smell of fragrant "herbs". I vacuumed out the crumbs and refrained from suggesting to the customer that he didn't roll-up at his desk.

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