Have a nice chuckle ... Hendrik Schaink
Begin forwarded message: > Bill Gates and the CD of Power > > > Recently one of my friends, a computer wizard, paid me a visit. I > mentioned that I had recently installed Windows on my PC, told him > how happy I was with this operating system and showed him the > Windows CD. To my astonishment and distress he threw it into my > micro-wave oven and turned it on. > > I was upset because the CD had become precious to me, but he said > "Do not worry, it is unharmed." After a few minutes he took the CD > out, gave it to me and said "Take a close look at it." > > To my surprise the CD was quite cold and it seemed to have become > thicker and heavier than before. At first I could not see anything, > but on the inner edge of the central hole I saw an inscription, in > lines finer than anything I have ever seen before. The inscription > shone piercingly bright, and yet remote, as if out of a great depth. > > 4F6E65204F5320746F2072756C65207468656D20616C6C2C204F6E65204F5320746F > 2066696E64207468656D2C0D0A4F6E65204F5320746F206272696E67207468656D20 > 616C6C20616E6420696E20746865206461726B6E6573732062696E64207468656D > > "I cannot read the fiery letters," I said. "No," he said, "but I > can. The letters are Hex, of an ancient mode, but the language is > that of Microsoft, which I shall not utter here. But in common > English this is what it says" > > "One OS to rule them all, One OS to find them > One OS to bring them all and in the darkness bind them." -- Hendrik M. Schaink Chief Consultant "Integrated Business Solutions & Dependable Service" InfoVision Consulting Calgary, Alberta, Canada Phone: (403) 239-0099 "The Vision: We are the partners of choice for companies and organizations that share our commitment to creating a world that is truly wise, courageous, prosperous, innovative, inclusive, sustainable and humane." --Ruben Nelson GPG Fingerprint: 1371 0927 8C3C 831F A838 C312 68BC F5DB 010D F3D7 _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
