Wednesday, November 28, 2007
Microsoft Hilarity
This was linked on the always-entertaining Morning News today -- a real Microsoft Help and Support note:
Don't believe me? Read it for yourself.
For a while, many people had "Für Elise" as their cellphone ringtones. Whenever I'd hear it, I'd say (to nobody in particular), "Elise, it's for you." Nobody got it.
During normal operation or in Safe mode, your computer may play "Fur Elise" or "It's a Small, Small World" seemingly at random. This is an indication sent to the PC speaker from the computer's BIOS that the CPU fan is failing or has failed, or that the power supply voltages have drifted out of tolerance. This is a design feature of a detection circuit and system BIOSes developed by Award/Unicore from 1997 on.
Don't believe me? Read it for yourself.
For a while, many people had "Für Elise" as their cellphone ringtones. Whenever I'd hear it, I'd say (to nobody in particular), "Elise, it's for you." Nobody got it.
