The Baroque Cycle / Cryptonomicon Shootout

[major_clanger]

rosenkavalier shows how a Gentleman at Arms puts one of these newfangled electrical actuaries in its place.

Comments

[ms-cataclysm.livejournal.com]

Does rosenkavalier do house calls ?

[tamaranth.livejournal.com]

seconded request for house calls. Though I am to be allowed to take a hammer to the hard drive of my old (theoretically werk-owned) laptop, once they've salvaged all the shiny useful bits.

[major-clanger.livejournal.com]

In my former life I was, for a while, responsible for managing a network of computers that held and shared Very Sensitive Information Indeed. Various shady and acronymic entities who provided much of said information were extremely keen that surplus hard drives be rendered utterly beyond even the most determined forensic examination, so we ended up with a deal involving a company which serviced jet engines and the boiling acid bath they used for cleaning turbine blades...

[ms-cataclysm.livejournal.com]

Have suggestion for stress -relieving corporate jolly -be ushered into private room where you can demolish a computer (expensive recyclables removed first of course) with the blunt instrument of your choice and then take home video and photos of experience .

[http://users.livejournal.com/la_marquise_de_/]

The marquis approves!

[rosenkavalier.livejournal.com]

It was a remarkably satisfying way of dealing with a computer that had plagued me with it's unreliability for years...