*fingers crossed and knocking on wood*
I draw the line on killing goats though. Messy business that. ;)
That sacrificing goats part was from the Novell Netware 3.11 troubleshooting manual. After restoring the server from tape, you had to sacrifice the goat with a virgin blade made from the motherboard of an original PC XT... at exactly the moment that the Novell Splash screen came up.
Timing was everything.
It's all much easier now. :-)