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A poem I have about installing Panther
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Griggsy
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Oct 29, 2003, 05:52 AM
 
As I renistall Panther for the second time on my Ti,, I came up with a wee poem:

Don't install Norton Antivirus,
It acts like the Hanta Virus


Short, sweet, accurate!
Torn apart by the wood peckers of mistrust t0 not have this happen 2 u visit guinea pig::the life of a mac designer::
     
Diggory Laycock
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Oct 29, 2003, 08:33 AM
 
Here's my poem:

Why install Anti-Virus on a Mac,
It's like wearing sunglasses when it's pitch-black.
     
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Oct 29, 2003, 08:39 AM
 
I like the haiku version more

I installed Norton,
antivirus plus panther;
is a reinstall.
     
Diggory Laycock
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Oct 29, 2003, 08:49 AM
 
Who's going to post a double dactyl then...
     
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Oct 29, 2003, 12:21 PM
 
Higgledy-Piggledy
Norton Utilities
why even bother in
this day and age?

     
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Oct 30, 2003, 12:08 PM
 
One more haiku, if I may:

Threads about Norton
Keep driving home the message:
"Not wanted on Macs."
     
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Oct 30, 2003, 12:15 PM
 
Some poems are fun
Most of them just suck a lot
Panther Panther Pan

     
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Oct 30, 2003, 01:04 PM
 
I just bought Panther
It's not installed on my mac
I am afraid to

I'm a bird. I am the 1% (of pets).
     
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Oct 30, 2003, 04:41 PM
 
Improved snappiness
The one thing Mac users crave
Go ahead, try it!
     
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Oct 30, 2003, 04:58 PM
 
not a crime, but
wasting time
reading, then writing
bad rhyme

please no more!
bugs galore
drown in sobs
where's steve jobs?


"At first, there was Nothing. Then Nothing inverted itself and became Something.
And that is what you all are: inverted Nothings...with potential" (Sun Ra)
     
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Oct 30, 2003, 05:03 PM
 
How about the limmerick:


With Panter installed on my drive
I saw Norton Utilites contrive
to eat my directories
like kids at confectories
it left nary a b-tree alive.

CV

When a true genius appears in the world you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him. -- Jonathan Swift.
     
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Oct 30, 2003, 05:03 PM
 
Originally posted by Eriamjh:
I just bought Panther
It's not installed on my mac
I am afraid to
If you have Panther
But not installed on your mac
It sucks to be you
     
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Oct 30, 2003, 05:38 PM
 
I wonder as I ponder
Installing Panther on my Drive;
will my apps and utilities
all suddenly fail to thrive?

Oh, whatever, it's just an OS . . .
     
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Oct 30, 2003, 05:53 PM
 
I sit alone in my dorm,
Continually defying the norm,
Typing on my white laptop,
Instead of a missions workshop.
Waiting for my next OS,
For my Educational version, Oh yes!
Soon I will have fun with expose
But not today
You see I live in rural Manitoba now,
surrounded by chicken, pig and cow.
But when it is finally shipped,
I will not sit in sack cloth ripped!
For I shall install ten point three,
Oh glory be!
     
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Oct 30, 2003, 07:40 PM
 
Originally posted by SomeToast:
Higgledy-Piggledy
Norton Utilities
why even bother in
this day and age?
It screws up my hard drive,
Quite unexpectedly.
I'm off to reinstall it,
In fits of rage.
ClamXav - the free virus scanner for Mac OS X | Geobunny learns to fly
     
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Oct 30, 2003, 07:57 PM
 
This reminds me of an email I wrote to the folks at Network Operations (NetOps) at my college when the Internet at my house went down in one of our many blizzards up here... Things you need to know to understand this are as follows:
- Our Internet link was high-bandwidth wireless coming from a (rather unreliable) dish on top of one of the buildings on campus.
- The network on campus is run by NetOps, who work at the CCC (Campus Computer Center).
Here's the email I sent:

In the Campus Center, here I write,
engaging in IMs and random hacking.
In my dorm glows monitor light
But comfort there is sorely lacking.

It's not the snow, or frigid air
That keeps me distant from my lair.
I've but one cause to don my jacket.
It's really all about a packet.

It didn't reach my port, you see;
I soon began to see the signs,
And wondered if the CCC
Uses RFC-1149.

Now through the snow and sleet and rain
I've found myself some 'Net again
To ask you guys to fix this thing
So I can surf before next Spring.

I'm sure you're already well aware
Of every outage great and small;
But about that thing up in the air
Atop the roof of Alden hall:

It's been much better this school year;
No longer do I live in fear.
But surely you fine folks must know
It doesn't work when covered in snow.
     
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Oct 30, 2003, 08:01 PM
 
Roses are red,
Panthers are black.
And once you go black,
You never go back.
     
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Oct 31, 2003, 12:56 PM
 
Originally posted by Phoenix1701:
This reminds me of an email I wrote to the folks at Network Operations (NetOps) at my college when the Internet at my house went down in one of our many blizzards up here... Things you need to know to understand this are as follows:
- Our Internet link was high-bandwidth wireless coming from a (rather unreliable) dish on top of one of the buildings on campus.
- The network on campus is run by NetOps, who work at the CCC (Campus Computer Center).
Here's the email I sent:

In the Campus Center, here I write,
engaging in IMs and random hacking.
In my dorm glows monitor light
But comfort there is sorely lacking.

It's not the snow, or frigid air
That keeps me distant from my lair.
I've but one cause to don my jacket.
It's really all about a packet.

It didn't reach my port, you see;
I soon began to see the signs,
And wondered if the CCC
Uses RFC-1149.

Now through the snow and sleet and rain
I've found myself some 'Net again
To ask you guys to fix this thing
So I can surf before next Spring.

I'm sure you're already well aware
Of every outage great and small;
But about that thing up in the air
Atop the roof of Alden hall:

It's been much better this school year;
No longer do I live in fear.
But surely you fine folks must know
It doesn't work when covered in snow.
our network between buildings is wireless too... really sucks...
     
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Oct 31, 2003, 03:10 PM
 
My external hard drive
tried to tangle with Panther
Alas it is now toast

     
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Oct 31, 2003, 03:15 PM
 
Install ten point three
Did it make your Kernel flee?
Panics are all he sees.
( Last edited by PBG4 User; Oct 31, 2003 at 03:20 PM. )
     
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Oct 31, 2003, 04:08 PM
 
Originally posted by chris v:
How about the limmerick:


With Panter installed on my drive
I saw Norton Utilites contrive
to eat my directories
like kids at confectories
it left nary a b-tree alive.

CV
Frost ain't got nothin' on you!
     
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Nov 1, 2003, 07:11 AM
 
try to load Norton
on an Oxford 922
for entertainment
     
   
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