Blue Screen of Life

Nick Kew

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Apr 1, 2000, 3:00:00 AM4/1/00

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"Where do you want to come today?"

In a bold bid to counter the growing popularity of penguins, Megahard
Corporation has today revealed the reasoning behind their renowned
"Blue Screen of Life" (BSOL) technology.

"The modern workplace needs to be efficient. But let us not forget that
it is populated by humans, not by automata. People need to relax, take
coffee breaks, and get away from the drudgery."

BSOL is installed as standard in any machine running Doors 2000 or
better. A BSOL website takes complete control of the computer,
and serves the human needs of busy workers. Instead of going right
away from the computer to relax, BSOL offers live online entertainment,
keeping busy employees glued to their screens.

BSOL builds on the success of its predecessor, the BSOD. Whereas BSOD
offered basic relief from the drudgery of the workplace, BSOL will play
live video sequences. By the end of the year, BSOL will offer a full range
of multimedia capabilities, with heat, smells, taste, and other sensations."

"This will give us a firm lead that Linux cannot emulate", commented
President of Vice Technology Gill Bates. "They cannot appreciate
that most ordinary users prefer a passive experience to interaction.
And in the corporate workplace, misguided managers may fail to understand
the vital role of live entertainment. BSOL takes complete control,
thus ensuring that it cannot be banned like conventional games or
entertainment-oriented sites on the Internet."

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Nick Kew

phil hunt

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Apr 3, 2000, 3:00:00 AM4/3/00

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On Sat, 1 Apr 2000 09:38:40 +0000, Nick Kew <ni...@webthing.com> wrote:
>"Where do you want to come today?"
>
>In a bold bid to counter the growing popularity of penguins, Megahard
>Corporation has today revealed the reasoning behind their renowned
>"Blue Screen of Life" (BSOL) technology.

>[snip]

:-)

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Stuart Brady

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Apr 4, 2000, 3:00:00 AM4/4/00

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On Sat, 1 Apr 2000, Nick Kew wrote:

>In a bold bid to counter the growing popularity of penguins, Megahard
>Corporation has today revealed the reasoning behind their renowned
>"Blue Screen of Life" (BSOL) technology.

[snip]

Ner... Scandisk's been around for ages. :-)
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Charlie Baylis

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Apr 6, 2000, 3:00:00 AM4/6/00

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In article <I2BkACAy...@bradymill.demon.co.uk>,

Stuart Brady <stuart@_nospam.bradymill.demon.co.uk_> wrote:
> Ner... Scandisk's been around for ages. :-)

Scandisk.... *spit* :)

Charlie

William Palfreman

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Apr 24, 2000, 3:00:00 AM4/24/00

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Charlie Baylis <cb-...@fish.zetnet.co.uk> wrote in message
news:49aaf35f...@fish.zetnet.co.uk...

I was wondering what the Linux equivalent is? What I would like is a
program which tests the hard disks and floppy drives on old 486s that are
going to be firewalls or printer servers. Generally such machines come with
Win 3.1 pre-installed, and scandisk is usually the last .exe to be run on
them before disk druid zaps the old partition table. I will still probably
carry on using scandisk.exe as it is always there already and I don't have
to install Linux to use it - no point in starting to install until you know
the disk drives are actually working! All the same, it would be quite
useful to have a similar Linux program.

Thanks,
Bill.

David Damerell

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Apr 25, 2000, 3:00:00 AM4/25/00

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William Palfreman <palfre...@ZXQemail.com> wrote:
>I was wondering what the Linux equivalent is?

'badblocks'; you'll find that mke2fs has an option to invoke it, or you
can invoke it by hand.
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