sweet!! thats great!!

proudhawk@uswestmail.net wrote:

> Recently one of my friends, a computer wizard, paid me a visit.
> As we were talking I mentioned that I had recently installed
> Windows XP on my PC.  I told him how happy I was with this operating
> system and showed him the Windows XP CD.  To my surprise he threw
> it into my microwave oven and turned it on.  Instantly I got very
> 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 to hold and it seemed to be
> heavier than before.  At first I could not see anything, but on
> the inner edge of the central hole I saw an inscription, an
> inscription finer than anything I had ever seen before.  The
> inscription shone piercingly bright, and yet remote, as if out
> of a great depth:
>
> 12413AEB2ED4FA5E6F7D78E78BEDE820945092OF923A40EElOE5 IOCC98D444AA08EI324
>
> "I cannot understand the fiery letters," I said in a timid voice.
>
> "No but I can," he said.  "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.'
>
> "It is only two lines from a verse long known in System-lore:
>
> "'Three OS's from corporate-kings in their towers of glass,
> Seven from valley-lords where orchards used to grow,
> Nine from dotcoms doomed to die,
> One from the Dark Lord Gates on his dark throne
> In the Land of Redmond where the Shadows lie.
> One OS to rule them all, One OS to find them,
> One OS to bring them all and in the darkness bind them,
> In the Land of Redmond where the Shadows lie.'"
>
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