Subj : Sound cards.
To   : Kurt Weiske
From : August Abolins
Date : Tue Aug 03 2021 08:56:00

Hello Kurt Weiske!

** On Saturday 24.07.21 - 08:02, Kurt Weiske wrote to Mark Hofmann:

 KW> I was the telecom guy and Netware guy. I was friends with
 KW> a QA guy and one of the sound engineers. We didn't like
 KW> the QA lab manager, and he didn't like us.

 KW> He would build PCs for the QA lab and for QA testers, and
 KW> had his stash of install disks.

 KW> My QA friend "borrowed" the disk, and my sound engineer
 KW> modified the test sounds to sound like:

 KW> "perperperperperforming irqqqqqqqqq tesssssssssssst"

 KW> Then, quietly replace the install disks, and wait for the
 KW> fireworks.

 KW> And, they did, after he'd spent 20 minutes tweaking IRQs
 KW> and ports on one card, assumed the card was bad and
 KW> installed another one...


LOL!  And.. how did the fireworks pan out?  Did that break the  
ice a bit, or did it forge more animosity?





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