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   From: flatfish99_spmrmv@yahoo.com   
      
   On Sat, 04 Dec 2010 03:51:43 -0700, High Plains Thumper wrote:   
      
   > Homer wrote:   
   >> Lawrence D'Oliveiro spake thusly:   
   >>> chrisv wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>>> Neither is watching an hourglass wondering what is going on.   
   >>>   
   >>> Ah, but did you know that each grain of virtual sand in the Microsoft   
   >>> Windows hourglass actually has its own Registry key? So for example   
   >>> when the {E3F66E37-33F4-4445-B35D-804455CB3936} grain falls, that   
   >>> indicates that the   
   >>> {E868BD2A-DA79-4D54-8554-F365C5E987A0} is about to   
   >>> {E53B95D8-AD26-4CA2-8DE3-7C58FF933A28} the   
   >>> {84F8213C-D969-4E06-92B4-8778327A1FDB}. Then when the   
   >>> {36C6B20D-B18E-437A-9316-41451A8367C3} follows, that means your   
   >>> {B90848C8-A122-4858-A55B-CA708BA252ED}ing system is completely   
   >>> {2D44B7C2-B6FD-41FB-80B3-752D56FEAFBC}ed. And so on.   
   >>   
   >> Joking aside, I can actually believe that's true. IOW Microsoft lacks   
   >> the imagination to create descriptive namespaces.   
   >>   
   >> Either that, or they're trying to "protect" something by hiding it under   
   >> a veil of obfuscation. The million+ Windows viruses in the wild suggests   
   >> maybe this technique is somewhat less than useful, however.   
   >>   
   >> Of course, there's so much convoluted bullshit in Windows, it's entirely   
   >> possible they exhausted the English dictionary by trying to name it all,   
   >> and therefore had to resort to using meaningless strings of HEX.   
   >   
   > For an operating system that is almost a decade old now, I have yet to see   
   > a WinXP Pro desktop in the workplace remain stable for more than 4 days   
   > without a reboot.   
      
   If you had anything to do with them it comes as no surprise HPT.   
   You could fsck up an iron cannon ball.   
      
   Some people shouldn't be allowed near computers.   
   Maybe you are one of them HPT.   
      
      
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