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On Wed, 2005-03-23 at 12:42 -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
> Hodgins Family wrote:
> > Good morning!
> >
> > On Wed, 2005-03-23 at 16:20 +0000, Joel Merrick wrote:
> >
> >>On Wed, 2005-03-23 at 16:53 +0100, lars ebeling wrote:
[snip]
> 
> I heard a story (not sure if it's true) about a server at a
> university that was walled in during a remodelling and was not
> found until four or five years later when they decided they
> needed to do something (upgrade memory, or whatever) to the
> machine.  Supposedly, they found it be tracing the network
> cable and then found it ran behind a wall.  Also, supposedly
> the machine want unnoticed for so long because it never needed
> to reboot or anything like that.

Am I the only person to think that this sounds like the Edgar Allan
Poe story THE CASK OF AMONTILLADO?

Besides, it would get pretty hot in that little walled-off closet.

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