Date: Fri, 1 Nov 2002 16:21:54 -0500 (EST)
From: "Richard B. Johnson" <root@chaos.analogic.com>
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Subject: Early Christmas
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     Let me get this out before Christmas (with apologies
     for being off-topic)

     T`Was the night before payday and all through the house,
         Not a computer was working as I clicked the mouse;
     The screen turned blue and out slewed some text,
         Showing register dumps and addresses in hex;
     The disk-light was glowing and loud were the sounds,
         Of whip-lashing disk-seeks way out-of-bounds;
     Then quick as a wink the screen started to flash,
         Upon each new re-boot the system would crash;
     I reached for the Windows CD/ROM to install,
         The system again, from scratch all, and all;
     I worked several hours trying to make,
         The new Windows Operating System to take;
     It would never complete the booting sequence,
         Nothing I did, made any sense;
     Then what to my wondering eyes should appear,
         But a Linux machine to which I'd grown dear;
     I connected the disk from the Windows box broken,
         Into the Linux machine as a token;
     And deleted that corrupt Windows partition,
         So another install would allow recognition;
     Then back to the Windows machine I did all,
        The Windows partition completed install;
     And recover all data, programs, and curia,
         From my quietly running Linux server.
     -- Richard B. Johnson --
 

Cheers,
Dick Johnson
Penguin : Linux version 2.4.18 on an i686 machine (797.90 BogoMips).
   Bush : The Fourth Reich of America


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