Max Hauser wrote:
> Remarkable item in today's Palo Alto [California] Daily News
> (Sunday,
> March 6, 2005, page 10).
>
> Diana Diamond reports asking a consultant at an Apple Computer
> retail
> store's "Genius Bar" what was the principal repair problem with
> laptop Macs. "Wine," was the answer. People drinking and typing,
> spilling on the keyboard, "which basically ruins the computer,"
> requiring "almost a four-figure" repair job. Red wine more often
> than
> white. [I guess they'd know, wouldn't they.] Silicon Valley having a
> higher than average rate of these incidents.
> www.paloaltodailynews.com is the general site, though at the moment,
> the site warns that most links are temporarily down, and I could not
> get to an online version of the text.
>
> Don't drink and type.

Initially, the subject made me think this was an OT anti-Linux rant!
Wine is a Linux Windows emulator and I can see Microsoft not liking it
(g).


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James V. Silverton
Potomac, Maryland, USA