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To: Antman

Subject: Thank You!

Ref: Word don't work

Thank you, Antman. I was already starting to loose it. It is very, very difficult to understand that OP. I'm lost, interesting to see if you can understand him better

Kari

Hello, geeks. I have been following this debate around the coming of "our savior" Windows 7 very keenly. Thread after thread topics like "XP / Vista vs. Windows 7", "What do you like / dislike in Windows 7", "What's still missing", "Why doesn't my *** work with Windows 7" etc.

I got an idea: why don't we all make a wish to get The Ultimate Absolute Operating System. This Wednesday night is the night of the annual appearance of the Perseid meteor shower. You can then see up to 100 shooting starts per hour, and like everybody knows you can make a wish when you see a shooting star.


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If we all wish the same thing seeing these shooting stars on Wednesday night, maybe our combined wish is strong enough for Microsoft to make last minute changes and we'll get The Perfect Operating System. You know what I mean:

• any FPS can be played in full-HD dual screen mode with 7.1 THX sound, even when you only have an old 14" CRT and laptop speakers
• it connects you to the interweb with over 50 megs per second using your existing 2 meg line
• it has thousends of different built-in gadgets on display showing temperature in Vietnam or list of every piece of hardware you have, all this on top of the background with ever changing images of Playmates
• it includes all major torrent and P2P software
• it rips any existing CD, DVD or BD
• it can crack any existing DRM
• it has built-in system to blink in all known neon colors
• it can fry your eggs and chips
• etc. etc.

Let's all wish together to get what we want!

Kari

EDIT: Forget it, I had second thoughts. Windows 7 is already working fine for me, helping me with my tasks, keeping track of my schedule, archiving emails, assisting me in project planning and presentations and bookkeeping.

petrossa said:

CP/M worked for me.

org 100h

; set video mode
mov ax, 3 ; text mode 80x25, 16 colors, 8 pages (ah=0, al=3)
int 10h ; do it!

; cancel blinking and enable all 16 colors:
mov ax, 1003h
mov bx, 0
int 10h

; set segment register:
mov ax, 0b800h
mov ds, ax

; print "hello world"
; first byte is ascii code, second byte is color code.

mov [02h], 'h'
mov [04h], 'e'
mov [06h], 'l'
mov [08h], 'l'
mov [0ah], 'o'
mov [0ch], ','
mov [0eh], 'w'
mov [10h], 'o'
mov [12h], 'r'
mov [14h], 'l'
mov [16h], 'd'
mov [18h], '!'

; color all characters:
mov cx, 12 ; number of characters.
mov di, 03h ; start from byte after 'h'

c: mov [di], 11101100b ; light red(1100) on yellow(1110)
add di, 2 ; skip over next ascii code in vga memory.
loop c

; wait for any key press:
mov ah, 0
int 16h

ret

A> HELLO WORLD!

And now even more OT, if it's possible in an OT-thread:

I have an old film, made by my younger brother with his Super 8 camera back in, I'm not so sure, -84 I think. I had just bought my first 10 meg hard drive and my brother is filming when I try to install it. On the film I hear myself answering my brothers question why it costs so much: "I believe these things cost so much because they don't think that also a private person could use them, only big companies. They make these things so enormous that no man is going to need it's full capacity even if he had it 20 years. I'm sure in a couple of years we have smaller and cheaper ones to normal users, like 1 to 1.5 meg!"

Still laughing every time my brother comes to visit from Finland and we watch these old family mementos.

Kari