The stuff you keep on your computer

I was doing some housekeeping on a computer n found some old files……. kinda fun stuff………….
This is good for a laugh, dated early 2000.

I have a friend high up in IBM here and I asked him to get me a copy of OS/2 an operating system, cos I wanted to try it on my server.
Well its not an easy thing to install and my hard drives were not quite what the OS expected. Anyway after tearing my hair out for a week he casually asks hows it going with the OS. I thought about how to reply and still retain some dignity cos I dont swear much around this guy.
Anyhow……. this is what I came up with.. its around the first quarter of 2000.

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At the end of week one, thus spake ‘the rusted one’;

“I have looked hard into its heart,
yet it giveth up nothing.
It is, itself, hardened of heart.
It smelleth not as of the rose.
It stinketh as of garbage,
even as to excrement doth it smell.
Yeah verily it is an arse and an abomination before mine eyes.”
She cried out… ” I am sorely tested”.
she has been sorely tested.
and the onlookers moaned and groaned. as is their way.

“Yet, though mine heart is sore and my spirit near broken,
On the morrow I will yet again stand before the I and B and also the M.
And I will rail against its fury for the OS/2 shall not prevail.
I will subdue this beast and bring it before you,
neither broken shall I bring it, for it will serve me.
yeah, it will serve ME.
for I have a covenant that sayeth I have dominion o’er the beasts.”
She cried out… ” I am the beast mistress”.
verily she IS the beast mistress.

“I will, this moon, make the beast to smelleth as do roses.
Also will I, prepare for it a new room in the beast house,
And as the child doth respect the mother, so will I bend its will,
lest it spit-eth the dummy.
Should this not come to pass, I will anoint myself with ash,
and in sack cloth go to the wilderness.”
and the onlookers gave up their smiles to Her.

Thus spake ‘the rusted one’
And it may yet come to pass.

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By mid 2000 IBM decided they would not support this operating system after the year ends.
As I had still not got the damned thing installed on a hard drive I was kinda relieved.
This guy has some respect for my computer skills and this was the first wall I ever hit.
So in the vein of the first post I put this one together as a reply.

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HISTORY WROTE THUS, IT IS MY EPITAPH:

The final days of OS/2
wherein the giant tripartite IBM throweth in the towel and brings the beast mistress to Her knees.

I have this day anointed mine self with excrement and with ash,
And will sally forth into the wilderness wearing naught but sackcloth.
For I have been sorely tested and found unworthy,
The beast OS/2 has prevailed against me.
Broken of spirit and sad of heart, I have given up the fight.
and the onlookers moaned and groaned. as is their nature.

Though the I and B and also the M have spake thus :-
they will offer no support to the beast in the fore year.
Neither feed it nor house it will they,
for abandonment has ruled their heart, they are hardened of heart.
It comforts little to ‘the rusted one’ I have been sorely tested.
the onlookers spake as one ‘She hath been sorely tested’
amid a great moaning and gnashing of teeth.

And so it came to pass:
though I smelleth not as of the rose, even as to excrement doth I smell.
I will wander in the wilderness for 1 passing of the moon.

Thus endeth my sad tale.