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My Windoze Nightmare
Dec. 2nd, 2003 08:53 amTerrible, awful dream:
I turn on my computer, start working on a client's JavaScript makeover, and suddenly notice that my desktop picture is no longer Akio's beautiful blue-green glass toric chain links floating on a Bryce ocean under a periwinkle sky.
It's a weird, primitive gold-beige splatter-paint tiled background. And my shortcut icons had disappeared. So I immediately hit the reboot button. A bunch of little windows appear with animated South Park icons and Sesame Street video clips.
OK, I like South Park, but not on my desktop. And Cookie Monster and Oscar the Grouch are OK, but I'd rather look at tattooed naked people boinking if given a choice.
I hit the reboot switch again, and this time that dreaded "Start" and "My Computer" bar appears at the bottom of my screen.
OH MY GOD!!!!!
My beloved Mac OS has been taken over by Windows XP.
Hitting the reboot switch does NOTHING.
What could have done this?
I remember doing some (ahem) file sharing the day before, and changing the configs in my firewall. Had I forgotten to reset it, resulting in some crappy spyware/malware being downloaded into my computer unknown to me?
Then the phone rang and wakened me.
That's the last time I complain about my outdated system. And I really should stop playing South Park Snood before going to bed.
Microsoft Jingle Bells by David Pogue
I turn on my computer, start working on a client's JavaScript makeover, and suddenly notice that my desktop picture is no longer Akio's beautiful blue-green glass toric chain links floating on a Bryce ocean under a periwinkle sky.
It's a weird, primitive gold-beige splatter-paint tiled background. And my shortcut icons had disappeared. So I immediately hit the reboot button. A bunch of little windows appear with animated South Park icons and Sesame Street video clips.
OK, I like South Park, but not on my desktop. And Cookie Monster and Oscar the Grouch are OK, but I'd rather look at tattooed naked people boinking if given a choice.
I hit the reboot switch again, and this time that dreaded "Start" and "My Computer" bar appears at the bottom of my screen.
OH MY GOD!!!!!
My beloved Mac OS has been taken over by Windows XP.
Hitting the reboot switch does NOTHING.
What could have done this?
I remember doing some (ahem) file sharing the day before, and changing the configs in my firewall. Had I forgotten to reset it, resulting in some crappy spyware/malware being downloaded into my computer unknown to me?
Then the phone rang and wakened me.
That's the last time I complain about my outdated system. And I really should stop playing South Park Snood before going to bed.
Microsoft Jingle Bells by David Pogue
