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Well, I have been sent to computer hell once again. I have two work machines. A Windows XP machine and a Mac OSX machine. Tuesday morning I came into work and found my XP machine had been turned off. No big deal, I thought, there was just a power outage. So I turn it on and I am presented with this screen, "System Shut-down due to thermal event." Oh great. So I open up the cover and none of the fans are working. So I don't know when this is going to be fixed. So I am without my work machine. This machine is a Dell and I thought it was cool that it shutdown instead of melting. That is a nice touch.

So all day Tuesday I used my Mac. Then I come in Wednesday morning and my Mac isn't connected to the internet. I get a phone call saying that it was sending out spam email to everyone on the network. Oh great, so now my Mac has been hacked into. So that was taken off the network. Now I am busy trying to secure it and wait on the folks in the other department to restore it's network access. I understand computers have to break, but why do they all have to break at the same time?