The Microsoft Sound

[adiment]

anybody using knoppix and have the logon sound? now that was a nice one "Initiating Boot Sequence"...not even sure if it uses it, I havent used knoppix since v3.3

the windows95 logon sound sucks becuase the quality is so low...but if it were high quality i'd use it.

[bedouin]

Brian Eno did it . . . that's interesting.

[Calum]

well i hate that damn microsoft sound, simply because i hear it literally dozens of times a day (working in installations as i do, within a company that ONLY uses ms windows). my colleagues whistle it to themselves as they work!!!!!!! AAAAAAAAA!!!!

and not just because it's made by microsoft. (because i know we all love microsoft now, i can't wait for a poor misguided windows user to happen along so i can help him fix up his bluescreen of death, as though i don't get enough of that 40 hours a week anyway)

ok?

now after that disclaimer NOBODY has ANY reason to start insulting me and then blaming *me* for derailing the thread.

let alone any of the moderators.

just to take a random example out of thin air for instance.

PS: no, even if you own a windows licence, you cannot copy or distribute files from ms windows. surely you guys have *read* these licences? according to this a copy of microsoft windows 95 does not even qualify you to use ANY microsoft products unless you own a "supported" copy of windows as well, because microsoft changed their licence retroactively.

that's what i love about microsoft, now i'm a convert, oh yes, you guys have shown me the light, how clever of microsoft to make more money this way by simply changing their mind years later! what clever fellows!

[Annorax]

well i hate that damn microsoft sound, simply because i hear it literally dozens of times a day (working in installations as i do, within a company that ONLY uses ms windows). my colleagues whistle it to themselves as they work!!!!!!! AAAAAAAAA!!!!

and not just because it's made by microsoft. (because i know we all love microsoft now, i can't wait for a poor misguided windows user to happen along so i can help him fix up his bluescreen of death, as though i don't get enough of that 40 hours a week anyway)

ok?

now after that disclaimer NOBODY has ANY reason to start insulting me and then blaming *me* for derailing the thread.

let alone any of the moderators.

just to take a random example out of thin air for instance.

PS: no, even if you own a windows licence, you cannot copy or distribute files from ms windows. surely you guys have *read* these licences? according to this a copy of microsoft windows 95 does not even qualify you to use ANY microsoft products unless you own a "supported" copy of windows as well, because microsoft changed their licence retroactively.

that's what i love about microsoft, now i'm a convert, oh yes, you guys have shown me the light, how clever of microsoft to make more money this way by simply changing their mind years later! what clever fellows!

That EULA is a "supplemental" EULA, which marks it as the one that comes with "OS components" like IE, WMP, DirectX, etc. The "supported OS" line, IMO, is meant more to stop Linux users from adding these components to emulated Windows than it is to stop Windows 95 users from finding a way to use the pieces of shit.

[Refalm]

Not the same thing.  They rewrote The Microsoft Sound for 98 or 2000, or something.  The one from 95 is much more famous.

The one hosted by Stryker is from Windows 95!!!

[Calum]

the ones i'm most irritated by are the 98/2000/xp ones to be honest.

[WMD]

The one hosted by Stryker is from Windows 95!!!

Hmm, it appears that it is.  Why did he say a license of XP then?

[Stryker]

Hmm, it appears that it is.  Why did he say a license of XP then?

because i copied it from the media folder of my windows xp system

[WMD]

I don't remember XP having that file.  The file that 98 and higher have is called "The Microsoft Sound" but is an entirely new clip.  You must've gotten it from somewhere else.

[Refalm]

because i copied it from the media folder of my windows xp system

Bullshit. This is the one from Windows XP:

http://www.illhostit.com/files/2972675121748545/Windows%20XP%20Opstarten.wav

[Stryker]

Bullshit. This is the one from Windows XP:

http://www.illhostit.com/files/2972675121748545/Windows%20XP%20Opstarten.wav

There is that one, but if you browse to C:\WINNT\Media you'll see the other files there.


Now that i think about it, i got the c:\winnt from upgrading from windows 2000, so maybe 2000 put them there.

[Aloone_Jonez]

Since apparently it's ok to post old copyrighted material come and get your free copy of Microsoft Quick Basic 4.5

[Kintaro]

Brian Eno has, quite justly, a reputation for being an intellectual. But complementing his endless curiosity and experimentation is his rather bizarre sense of humour. This is very apparent in his diary, "A Year With Swollen Appendices". One of the incidents that he relates in the book is almost beyond belief, although I have to say that I personally am inclined to take his word for it.

The story revolves around Marcel Duchamp's "Fountain", which is basically a porcelain urinal which Ducamp chose at random and subsequently exhibited. In 1995, Eno saw it on display in the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, being treated as if it was a holy relic rather than a randomly chosen object. He was appalled that Duchamp's message, which Eno characterizes as, "I can call any old urinal -- or anything else for that matter -- a piece of art", had been so badly misunderstood. But Eno had far more pressing things on his mind. The following is quoted from his diary.

 "I've always wanted to urinate on that piece of art, to leave my small mark on art history. I thought this might be my last chance -- for each time it was shown it was more heavily defended. At MoMA it was being shown behind glass, in a large display case. There was, however, a narrow slit between the two front sheets of glass. It was about three-sixteenths of an inch wide.

 I went to the plumber's on the corner and obtained a couple of feet of clear plastic tubing of that thickness, along with a similar length of galvanized wire. Back in my hotel room, I inserted the wire down the tubing to stiffen it. Then I urinated into the sink and, using the tube as a pipette, managed to fill it with urine. I then inserted the whole apparatus down my trouser-leg and returned to the museum, keeping my thumb over the top end so as to ensure that the urine stayed in the tube.

 At the museum, I positioned myself before the display case, concentrating intensely on its contents. There was a guard standing behind me and about 12 feet away. I opened my fly and slipped out the tube, feeding it carefully through the slot in the glass. It was a perfect fit, and slid in quite easily until its end was poised above the famous john. I released my thumb, and a small but distinct trickle of my urine splashed on to the work of art."

A deranged act of an obsessive mind? A childish prank by someone with too much time on their hands? An astonishingly apt and astute comment on attitudes to art? Whatever, Duchamp would have loved it.

This guy kicks arse.

[Stryker]

Since apparently it's ok to post old copyrighted material come and get your free copy of Microsoft Quick Basic 4.5

If posting a sound that came with an operating system I paid for is wrong, then so must be posting screenshots as the start button in windows is copyrighted (or at least the windows logo on it), the logos of all the icons on your desktop and quicklaunch bar. I don't see why sound should be special.

On the otherhand, quickbasic is a full package. I can't go out and buy the microsoft sound.wav.

But, i did buy quickbasic. It was my first programming language.

ok i'm done

[Refalm]

If posting a sound that came with an operating system I paid for is wrong, then so must be posting screenshots as the start button in windows is copyrighted (or at least the windows logo on it), the logos of all the icons on your desktop and quicklaunch bar. I don't see why sound should be special.

On the otherhand, quickbasic is a full package. I can't go out and buy the microsoft sound.wav.

But, i did buy quickbasic. It was my first programming language.

ok i'm done

I don't quite care about abandonware posted once a month or a sound file. But members shouldn't push it though