Descaradamente roubado do MarioAV

Recently one of my friends, a computer wizard, paid me a visit. As we were talking I mentioned that I had recently installed Windows XP on my PC. I told him how happy I was with this operating system and showed him the Windows XP CD. To my surprise he threw it into my microwave oven and turned it on. Instantly I got very 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 to hold and it seemed to be heavier than before. At first I could not see anything, but on the inner edge of the central hole I saw an inscription, an inscription finer than anything I had ever seen before. The inscription shone piercingly bright, and yet remote, as if out of a great depth:

4F6E65204F5320746F2072756C65207468656D206
16C6C2C0D4F6E65204F5320746F2066696E64207
468656D2C0D4F6E65204F5320746F206272696E67
207468656D20616C6C20616E640D696E20746865
206461726B6E6573732062696E64207468656D2E

‘I cannot understand the fiery letters,’ I said in a timid voice. ‘No but I can,’ he said. ‘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.

It is only two lines from a verse long known in System lore:

“Three OS’s from corporate kings in their towers of glass,
Seven from valley lords where orchards used to grow,
Nine from dotcoms doomed to die,
One from the Dark Lord Gates on his dark throne
In the Land of Redmond where the Shadows lie.

One OS to rule them all,
one OS to find them,
One OS to bring them all and in the darkness bind them,
In the Land of Redmond where the Shadows lie.”

PS: Ainda no marioav.com ele informa que os novos iMac vão ser tipo Playstation 2 nas lojas: só daqui uns 6 meses vai dar para comprar, dado o volume de pré-vendas já feito. Melhor assim… menos tentação .