Date: Tue, 6 Jul 1999 11:31:47 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Nik Clayton <nik@nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk> Cc: Mark Ovens <markov@globalnet.co.uk>, "G. Adam Stanislav" <zen@buddhist.com>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: An interesting signature Message-ID: <19990706113146.G451@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <19990705233339.A80211@catkin.nothing-going-on.org>; from Nik Clayton on Mon, Jul 05, 1999 at 11:33:39PM %2B0100 References: <3.0.6.32.19990704104339.009bb4f0@mail.bfm.org> <19990704213005.A439@marder-1> <19990705233339.A80211@catkin.nothing-going-on.org>
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On Monday, 5 July 1999 at 23:33:39 +0100, Nik Clayton wrote: > On Sun, Jul 04, 1999 at 09:30:05PM +0100, Mark Ovens wrote: >> I recently received the following. Many a true word spoken in jest? >> It is the last paragraph that had me ROFL. > > [snip] > >> Ballmer concluded by getting a dig in against the Open Source >> community. "This just goes to show that Microsoft continues to >> innovate at a much faster pace than open source. I have yet to see >> any evidence that Linux even has a BSOD, let alone a customizable >> one." > > XScreenSaver(1) XScreenSaver(1) > > > NAME > bsod - Blue Screen of Death emulator > > SYNOPSIS > bsod [-display host:display.screen] [-foreground color] > [-background color] [-window] [-root] [-mono] [-install] > [-visual visual] [-delay seconds] > > DESCRIPTION > The bsod program is the finest in personal computer emula- > tion. > > bsod steps through a set of screens, each one a recreation > of a different failure mode of an operating system. Sys- > tems depicted include Microsoft's Windows 95 and Windows > NT, Commodore-Amiga's AmigaDOS 1.3, SPARC Linux, SCO UNIX, > the Apple Macintosh (both the MacsBug debugger and the > rarer "Sad Mac"), and the Atari ST. Nice one. If somebody sends me the text from a BSOD, I'll implement it. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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