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| November 19, 2006 | This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Byline: David Hayes

Nov. 19--Most of us know, by now anyway, that the little tray that pops out of our computers is for a CD, and not a handy beverage holder.

But that doesn't mean there aren't plenty of other stupid computer tricks for those guys and gals in tech support to chuckle about.

Take the computer owner who left a banana to rot on top of his external hard drive. As it rotted, banana, er, juice, seeped into the drive.

The geeks at Ontrack Data Recovery, a company that specializes in cleaning up after our computer mishaps, swear this is true. Ontrack cleaned the drive's circuit board and got it running long enough to capture the data on the disk. "The banana, however, could not be recovered." The banana…

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