[gentoo-user] if you see a fat man

[Anupam Kapoor]

here is one from lkml, by Richard B. Johnson:

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 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, reserver,
         From my quietly running Linux server.
     When word got out that Linux had fixed,
         A Windows computer that had been nixed;
     The corporate big-wigs took much attention,
         And started to conduct an investigation;
     The result being that they could not allow,
         The power that Linux had shown somehow;
     So they declared that henceforth for time ever more,
         No Linux machine be allowed in the store;
     On Linus, on Alan, on Larry, on Ben,
        On Alexy and David and Andreas and Len;
     To arms all the soldiers, the battle we cry,
        To crush Windows garbage, it's now do or die.


enzoy.

anupam

Ted Ozolins wrote :

> Seasons greeting to all and may the new year bring you great joy. :)
> 
> >>
> >>              If you see a fat man
> >>
> >>             who's jolly and cute...
> >>             Wearing a beard
> >>             and a red flannel suit
> >>
> >>             And if he is chuckling
> >>             and laughing away...
> >>
> >>             While flying around
> >>
> >>             In a miniature sleigh
> >>
> >>             With eight tiny reindeer
> >>             To pull him along...
> >>             Then lets face it.....
> >>
> >>
> >>             Your eggnog's too strong!
> >>
> -- 
> Ted Ozolins (VE7TVO)
> Westbank, B. C.
> 
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