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Re: BSOD (fwd)
On Fri, May 28, 1999 at 10:02:05AM +0000, mike packard wrote:
>
> > *** Microsoft Announces Improved BSOD ***
>
> Hahaha
>
> Someone should write a "BSOD" emulator for Linux, so that people who are
> forced to use Windows at work can secretely put Linux on their box and
> then run BSO-Linux from a hotkey or something when their boss walks by.
> I would write it myself if not for my feeble coding skillz. I guess
> another application could be BSO-KDE, which KDE could just randomly throw
> up once in a while as a subtle reminder of what you're missing. Of
> course, the KDE version could say "Hit any key to go back to what you were
> doing...."
Hahah, good idea, and to make it feel a little more real, have it montior the
load avg and proc/mem usages. Any spikes of usage would spawn a Windows-based
hell screen, just like the real Windows OS! ;-)
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- References:
- BSOD (fwd)
- From: Steven Pritchard <steve@osiris.silug.org>
- Re: BSOD (fwd)
- From: mike packard <mpackard@museum.state.il.us>