You must really like Stargate ;-)
On Thu, 2002-10-03 at 22:06, Chopin Cusachs wrote:
>
> From our secret agent:
>
> Recently one of my friends, a computer wizard, paid me a
> visit. As we were talking I mentioned that I had recently
> installed Windows on my PC, I told him how happy I was with
> this operating system and showed him the Windows CD. Too 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:
>
> 4F6E65204F5320746F2072756C65207468656D20616C6C2C204F6E65204F53
> 20746F2066696E64207468656D2C0D0A4F6E65204F5320746F206272696E67
> 207468656D20616C6C20616E6420696E20746865206461726B6E6573732062
> 696E64207468656D
>
> '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...."
>
>
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