[ale] OT: MS LoTRs..he he

[Cadet Hacker]

> 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 I OCC98D444AA08EI
324
>
> '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."'

he he...

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