> Well, Julia, have you ever heard of the Pauli effect? No, > not the Pauli > exclusion principle, the Pauli _effect_. This was the term
I have experienced this many times in the past doing desktop support. Computer would absolutely misbehave, then I would arrive, and they would resume normally, and never present the problem again. It happened so often, I used to make jokes about how good I was at fixing computers, that my mere presence can fix them. While I am sure some of them were related to User errors, but others were on computers where another technician would be working on it, and I would walk into the cube, and it would stop misbehaving. There have also been many times where I have gotten subtle unrelated clues that a computer was about to crash. I would usually start emergency restoration procedures then, and during the process, the computer would crash. In almost every case where a server has crashed, I have been in front of it, trying to save off important data. I also used to fix the computers of Hindu Indian programmers. Many of them considered computer programming a religous thing, and would routinely pray before programming, to keep the computer stable during testing. They continued to do this because it appeared to work for them. I'm not saying that anything paranormal was happening, nor am I saying that I have mystical power over computers, it is just that the Pauli Effect is a convienent way to describe these coincidences (if they ARE coincidences!...). Nerd From Hell
