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Microsoft Windows's secret:




Recently one of my friends, a computer wizard, paid me a visit. As we were talking I mentioned having recently installed Windows on my PC and that I am very happy with this operating system. I also showed him the Windows CD, to my surprise he threw it into my micro-wave oven and turned on the oven. 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 then on the inner edge of the central hole I saw an inscription; an inscription finer than anything I have ever seen before. The inscription shone piercingly bright, and yet remote, as if out of a great depth:




4F6E65204F5320746F2072756C65207468656D20616C6C2C204F6E65204F5320746
F2066696E64207468656D2CDA4F6E65204F5320746F206272696E67207468656D20
616C6C20616E6420696E20746865206461726B6E6573732062696E64207468656D




'I cannot understand 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

Date: 2001-03-27 08:17 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] drownedinink.livejournal.com
Don't tell me you now have to go on a sacred quest to Washington to throw the CD into Mt. Saint Helen...?

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Date: 2001-03-27 08:21 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] scottobear.livejournal.com
Nah, it's not worth losing a finger over. :)

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