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On Sunday 04 August 2002 18:57, you wrote:
it however happened just as I hit enter after typign a pkzip command in, spooky at the time. Hit enter and the computer went off, timing was perfect.
One early morning 12 years ago I was sitting in barracks near Riyadh watching Zulu. Just as the Zulus crested the rise all across the screen the Scud alarm went off. Now _that_ was spooky timing<g> Fortunately their aiming computers were all running pirated copies of Windows, so they missed. In fact this is the real motive for the threatened attack on Iraq and Gulf 3 or 2 or whatever it would be - MS demanding licence fees back to the 1980s. The last paragraph is pure fantasy, although come to think of it... -- From one of the Linux desktops of Dr Adrian Midgley http://www.defoam.net/ -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe.