Phil Beesley wrote:
  Ethernet cards would be a safe bet but the rarer stuff
(GPIB, video
 image grabbers etc) would guarantee interesting times... 
Ah, someone else who uses the old Chinese curse with reference to
computers.  I figure I've been living in interesting times since I
started with that TRS-80 that wasn't a Model One yet (1978).  And
it's been getting more "interesting" every year since.
--
Ward Griffiths
They say that politics makes strange bedfellows.
Of course, the main reason they cuddle up is to screw somebody else.
                                Michael Flynn, _Rogue Star_