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Gates invades users' hard drives
Background info:
The current version of my MacSlack program contains an easter egg. If any
file that MacSlack scans contains the text "billgates" or "bill gates" as
part of its filename, MacSlack plays an audio clip of Gates praising the
Macintosh.
With that in mind...
>To: Andrew Rhoades <[email protected]>
>From: "Eric M. Bennett" <[email protected]>
>Subject: Re: Bill speaks & I freaks (momentarily...)
>
> You wrote:
>
> >So I'm sittin' here looking at Quicken and this voice from beyond starts
> >in, sounding not unlike Mr. Gates himself. RealAudio? Weird web page?
> >What's going on???? Ahhhh, happy Easter, Slack-er!
>
>No! No!
>
>This is truly scary. You are the *third* person to report having found that,
>and it's only been there about a week or so. There must be a frightening
>number of people out there who have Mr. Gates on their hard drives! I am
>beginning to regret having included this feature. :-/
I should further add that, in a tribute to Microsoft bloatware, the Gates
audio clip is responsible for approximately 50% of the program's current
size.
--
Eric Bennett, [email protected], Cornell University Biochemistry Department
http://www.pobox.com/~ericb (Follow "About Me" link for PGP public key.)
Microsoft once declared its goal to be "Windows everywhere." Today
Windows is omnipresent, but everywhere people are whispering, "Maybe
Windows is fundamentally broken." -Windows Tech Magazine, October 1997
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