I recently got a new system (EMachines) with Windows XP. Not using it for work, just personal, but it recognized the IOMega Zip drive right away, no software installation needed. Same with unplugging the older computer from the cable modem and plugging into the new one, just cycle power on the modem first, boot the computer, and you're online. Havn't seen a blue screen yet, but have only used it for a few hours, and not intensively like for work.
This little (essay?) landed in my Email box, not sure where it came from (surely not Microsoft), but laughed my
off.
Lord of the OS's
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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 my Windows XP CD.
To my surprise, he threw it into my microwave oven and turned
it on. I became instantly 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 my CD out, gave
it back to me and said, "Take a close look
at it."
To my surprise, the CD was quite cold to the touch and seemed
to me to be heavier than before.
At first I could not see anything, but upon looking closer, 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. It read:
12413AEB2ED4FA5E6F7D78E78BEDE820945092OF923A40EElOE5
AOCC98D444AA08EA324
"I cannot understand the fiery letters," I said to my friend
in a timid voice.
"No, but I can," my friend said. "The letters are only Hex,
of an ancient mode, but the language is that of Microsoft,
which I shall not utter here. In common English it says:
'One OS to find them, One OS to rule them, One OS to
bring them all together and, in the darkness, bind them'. It
is two lines from a verse long known in System-lore. The
whole verse reads:
'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.
And lastly, from the Dark Lord himself, on his dark throne, 1
Master OS, into which he poured all his greed and great desire
to rule and dominate the destinies of
all.
One OS to find them,
One OS to rule them,
One OS to bring them all together And,
in the darkness, bind them,
In the Land of Redmond,
where the Shadows lie."
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