On Sat, Sep 20, 2003 at 04:55:53PM -0400, Vikki Roemer wrote: > Oops, nevermind. The problem turned out to be that my computer was slowly > stirfrying itself. :( No harm done, thankfully. Well, except for > contributing noise here. But I learned a valuable lesson about painting a > computer-- *do not* use acrylic metallic paint, it's too rubbery and acts as > an insulator when it gets more than 1 or 2 coats on it. Just in case any of > you were thinking about painting a computer with acrylic paint. ;) I *hate* > vanilla beige boxen! :b Anyway... If your machine is that close to overheating that painting the box makes it conk out, I think you ought to install some extra fannage. -- Pigeon Be kind to pigeons Get my GPG key here: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x21C61F7F
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