From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Mar 7 7:26:25 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from shattered.disturbed.net (shattered.disturbed.net [192.139.81.180]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A851314BE0 for ; Sun, 7 Mar 1999 07:26:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from veers@disturbed.net) Received: from shattered.disturbed.net ([192.139.81.180]:10507 "EHLO shattered" ident: "IDENT-NONSENSE") by disturbed.net with ESMTP id <61622-273>; Sun, 7 Mar 1999 10:27:54 -0500 Date: Sun, 7 Mar 1999 10:27:53 -0500 (EST) From: Alex Perel To: Nocturne Cc: FreeBSD Chat Subject: Re: Microsoft dies after 47 days (was: Moving on and check out my.sig) In-Reply-To: <36E263D2.FD39DD56@uswest.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sun, 7 Mar 1999, Nocturne wrote: > > Nope - Windows gets all confused if you don't launch a myraid of > > useless things on startup. The only way to keep windows from crashing is > > encasing the machine in concrete and sending it to the bottom of the ocean. > > If it is not running, it's not going to crash, now is it..? > > The machine used for bookkeeping and taxes has no modem, no sound, > no NIC... not even a fancy video card, I built it using quality > parts. It runs an updated Windoze Ninety-Hate and is very stable > in Windows-relative terms. No software other than Quickbooks, > Quattro Pro, and Quicken. The longest it's run without a fault of > any kind is one day, but it's stayed running since Feb 12 without > needing a reset. Given its nature that's pretty damned impressive. A real hacker would write his own accounting system though, no need for such a cop out - Q* money programs are not to be trusted! Now, mind you, staying up for the better part of a month IS impressive - now you have to be worried about the 49.7 day bug. Just PRAY that the box will not die on you on the .6th hour of hte 47th day... What you may want to do is (carefully) move the computer to the center of the floor. Get a big red crayon, and draw a pentagram around it. Next, candles - red is preferred but not required. Just make sure they are the long lasting kind - it'd be a real shame if the computer outlives the candles. Once you've done all that, walk away and lock the door. Don't come back until the 49.7th day of operation. If all goes well the machine will have transformed into a mutant of Windoze, OS/2 and CP/M. That is the perfect time to launch a preemptive strike and destroy it. Am I getting ahead of myself here? :-) Alex G. Perel -=- AP5081 alexp@iplink.net -=- (work) veers@disturbed.net -=- (play) Disturbed Networks - Powered exclusively by FreeBSD == The Power to Serve -=- http://www.freebsd.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message