Fellowship of the OS
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. Too 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...."