Jeff Barrows
Jeff at OUTBAKTech.com
Thu Oct 9 23:41:29 CDT 2003
I thought you might enjoy this: ------------------------ Here are 16 actual error messages seen on the computer screens in Japan, where some are written in Haiku. Aren't these better than "your computer has performed an illegal operation"? -------------------------------------------- The Web site you seek cannot be located, but countless more exist. -------------------------------------------- Chaos reigns within. Reflect, repent, and reboot. Order shall return. ----------------------------------------------- Program aborting: Close all that you have worked on. You ask far too much. ------------------------------------------------ Windows NT crashed. I am the Blue Screen of Death. No one hears your screams. ------------------------------------------------ Yesterday it worked. Today it is not working. Windows is like that. ------------------------------------------------- Your file was so big. It might be very useful. But now it is gone. ------------------------------------------- Stay the patient course. Of little worth is your ire. The network is down. ------------------------------------------------- A crash reduces your expensive computer to a simple stone. ------------------------------------------------- Three things are certain: Death, taxes and lost data. Guess which has occurred? ------------------------------------------------- You step in the stream, but the water has moved on. This page is not here. ------------------------------------------------- Out of memory. We wish to hold the whole sky, But we never will. ------------------------------------------------ Having been erased, The document you're seeking must now be retyped. ------------------------------------------------- Serious error. All shortcuts have disappeared. ------------------------------------------------- Screen. Mind. Both are blank. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= I have no idea of their authenticity or original source, but I also found them posted on the Web on several sites including: http://www.tashitagg.co.za/forum/thread-view.asp?threadid=3183&posts=1 Jeff Barrows Outbak Technologies, LLC Racine, WI Phone: (262) 634-0653 Mailto: jeff_developer at hotmail.com www.outbaktech.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://databaseadvisors.com/pipermail/accessd/attachments/20031009/460dd1c4/attachment.html>