dust bunnies? no! dust rabbits!

In the fine cinematic feature, “Monty Python and the Holy Grail,” there is drawn the great distinction between “bunnies” and “rabbits” when the troop encounters the Rabbit of Caerbannog. They are told that, “death awaits you all with nasty, big, pointy teeth,” in reference to the rabbit – which is obviously not warm and cuddly like a bunny. Therefore! I pronounce the critters I vanquished today to be dust rabbits!

A friend (who shall remain anonymous, to avoid being associated with the horror that follows) was having problems with his computer after installing new memory (RAM). The machine was decidedly unstable and quite disagreeable. I spent some time diagnosing the problem, finally discovering that one of the new “sticks” of RAM was indeed defective.

While digging through the computer I discovered the rabbits – they were everywhere! They had congregated beneath the cooling fan for the CPU – creating a lovely blanket of near-wool properties, ideal for summer computing!

There were rabbits in the video card fan, rabbits on the motherboard, and rabbits in the air intake vents. Those little beasties had multiplied over the years to take over the whole machine!

With vacuum cleaner hose in-hand, I conquered the evil monsters one-by-one. The machine should be more stable without the furry critters everywhere.

So, when was the last time you had a geek exterminate the beasties from your computer?