[plug] [OT] inside the hole of the CD...

[Leon Brooks]

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Subject: [CS-FSLUG] Just for Grins
Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2002 07:54:33 +0300
From: Nigel Ridley <DESPAMMED>

I got this from "Fred Langa's" list http://www.langa.com  and thought you
might find it amusing:

     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. To 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...."

Nigel Ridley.

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