Lord of the...CDs?

[allenb1963]

Bill Gates and the CD of Power

Of course, we have to have a Lord of the Rings reference:

Recently one of my friends, a computer wizard, paid me a visit. I mentioned that I had recently installed Windows on my PC, told him how happy I was with this operating system and showed him the Windows CD. To my astonishment and distress he threw it into my micro-wave oven and turned it on.

I was 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 and it seemed to have become thicker and heavier than before. At first I could not see anything, but on the inner edge of the central hole I saw an inscription, in lines finer than anything I have ever seen before. The inscription shone piercingly bright, and yet remote, as if out of a great depth.

4F6E65204F5320746F2072756C65207468656D20616C6C2C204F6E65204F5320746F
2066696E64207468656D2C0D0A4F6E65204F5320746F206272696E67207468656D20
616C6C20616E6420696E20746865206461726B6E6573732062696E64207468656D

"I cannot read the fiery letters," I said. "No," he said, "but I can. 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."

Originally spotted here.

[Noia]

Hahaha..it realy DOES say that aswell cool...I'v gota go...l8r

- Noia

[Dr_Evil]

Ha Ha ha...

It's really good ! Made me laugh !

Dr_Evil

[s0nIc]

here's a source code for converting binary to decimal, ascci to hex. found in:
http://www2.ics.hawaii.edu/~wes/ICS212/Notes/BDHA.html

#include <stdio.h>
int a, b, c, d, e;
void main()
{
    int i;
    a = 65;
    b = 0x41;
    c = 'A';
    d = 'A'+3;
    printf("a = %d b = %d c = %d\n", a, b, c);
    printf("Ascii %c, decimal %d, hex %02x\n", d, d, d);
    printf("Here is d in binary: ");
    for(i = 7; i>=0; i--) {
        if((1<<i)&d) printf("1");
        else printf("0");
    }
    printf("\n");
}

and oh. its a C++ source code.

[Genius695]

I used to be schizophrenic, but now we're okay.

[angelic_ky]

lol... it really sums up what MS is about

[s0nIc]

lol u know.. i think there is a simmilarity to lotr and microsoft.. i mean.. Bill Gates can be sauron. and sauron can see anyone who uses the ring, just like bill gates who can see everyone who uses windows.. not to mention da "One OS to Rule Them All" theory. lol

[Laser]

Lol
And tiny Tux shall take up this evil CD and shall enter into the very Gates of hell and there
shall he destroy this great evil

[s0nIc]

and oh watch out for da Dark Riders aka Lawyers. They will follow you where ever you go!

ok thats it!!!
im so inspired that i will write a story based on lotr and microsoft and call it Lord Of The CD.

*goes off and opens Microsoft Word* *shivers*

[souleman]

/me looks over sOnIcs code.... where is the cout statment?

/me whispers to sOnIc... thats c code, not c++