On or about 2006-09-06 Wednesday 02:39, I did witness the following events
concerning Paul Hovnanian P.E.:
> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>>
>> __/ [ Mark Kent ] on Saturday 02 September 2006 09:45 \__
>>
>> > begin oe_protect.scr
>> > Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>> >> __/ [ Paul Hovnanian P.E. ] on Saturday 02 September 2006 02:52 \__
>> >>
>> >>> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>> >>>>
>> >>>> Vista start-up music compulsory
>> >>>>
>> >>>> ,----[ Quote ]
>> >>>> | The almighty Microsoft has decided that guitarist Robert Fripp?s
>> >>>> | work on the opening tune for Vista is so good, it will be
>> >>>> | compulsory and won't be able to be switched off.
>> >>>> |
>> >>>> | Steve Ball, group program manager for the Windows Audio Video
>> >>>> | Excellence team told punters that Windows Vista should present a
>> >>>> | "common, and beautiful, face to the world." In other words,
>> >>>> | Microsoft has spent shedloads on its corporate image and you are
>> >>>> | darn well going to appreciate it.
>> >>>> `----
>> >>>
>> >>> They should have gone with 'Rhapsody in Blue (Screen)'.
>> >>
>> >> Isn't that like 12 minutes long? The O/S wouldn't keep standing that
>> >> long.
>> >>
>> >
>> > You could keep it playing whilst you log in and wait for everything to
>> > start up. If you played it twice over, then you'd be pretty sure the
>> > machine would be ready to take instructions from the user.
>>
>> In that case, you could also play the Requiem on shutdown. The whole
>> thing! And it's worth having some specialised music for the installation.
>> It is, after all, a routinely-recurring procedure. Sure happens more
>> often than a Linux users happens to see his/her bootloader...
>
> Or Wagners Der Ring des Nibelungen during patch installations.
>
you mean the entire 18.5 hour opera? Or the Bugs Bunny six and a half minute
version?
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