Because this has ZERO FAILURE MODES

[ultranos]

In a vague attempt to get my brain to focus on ANYTHING BUT THE crackfic epic, havocthecat has convinced me to throw caution to the wind:

Inspired by Doctor Who's "Turn Left:" Pick one of my stories and tell me a point in the tale that you'd change -- something tiny or big -- and I'll tell you how that one difference would have altered the course of the entire story.

Fic can be found under the fic tag here.

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[rodlox.livejournal.com]

either a different sort of holy war in which nobody installs Microsoft....or in accordance with Tilden's Law in which the System Lords are the tools to solve the problem disposable tools?

up to you.

[ultranos-fic.livejournal.com]

If no one had installed Microsoft, the argument between text editors would have escalated until the entire Science Department of the Expedition was divided between the emacs and vi camps. There would be bitter arguments on both sides, and Sam's fear of getting involved in a holy war was actually an understatement.

This would go on until Lorne introduces the military contingent to LyX, which allows everyone to type up reports neatly in LaTeX with a fairly minimum amount of effort and is more intuitive than Word. Now having a third faction, people start realizing that oh my god, we are fighting about text editors and the Wraith are trying to eat us.

Rodney still snipes about people not using vi, though. Sam gets SG-1 to send her this mug (http://www.thinkgeek.com/homeoffice/mugs/7bbe/) for McKay as a peace offering and a ceasefire is official.