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Date: Wed, 2 Jun 1999 21:11:09 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Idris H. Hsi" <idris@cc.gatech.edu>
Linux? BLASPHEMER!! You do not follow the Word of Gates
and the Church
of Microsoft??? I and the hundred million members of my congregation
curse you and your stable, compact, efficiently maintained, and
freeware operating system! May your files become corrupted with
the Devil's offal. May your concurrent threads tangle into huge
dust
bunnies. May your very computer be smitten with the lightning's
of terrible
wrath sent from the Holy place that is Redmond, Washington.
But wait! You can still be saved. For a mere $1000, you
can convert to
Windows 2000, now with 3D blue screen of death and MP3 generated funeral
music. For this small fee, you can spare yourself from the Wrath
of the
Cult of Microsoft. Our <ahem> collectors will be by shortly
to collect
your tithe and to assist you with baptizing your computer. You
can still
save yourself! It's not too late.
Idris
P.S. That's evangelizing...
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As you will have guessed by now, my system toasted about 12 hours later. There is a God and his name is Bill Gates. Apparently, the Church of Microsoft frowns on satire. The File Allocation Tables on my drive were shot. The recovery methods babbled something about not able to reconstruct the registry because some unknown compression software was used on the hard drive. Part of that day and the next was spent trying to save my computer and, more importantly, my research. The additional irony, you might ask? I had two programs due. I had two finals coming up. I had a research paper on the computer that we were going to try and submit to a conference that couldn't be finished unless I found the data. I had to move out of my apartment this week because they were renovating the building. I couldn't spare the time but I had to because my life centered around that computer, which was, strangely enough, a research related issue for me. What timing!
Hmmm. I was wrong. This still isn't funny in retrospect.
