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Haiku Error Messages
- If computer programmers were more into haiku......these are the sort of error messages you might see
found floating around the 'Net, brought to our attention by Gordon Currie
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Server's poor response
Not quick enough for browser.
Timed out, plum blossom.
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Everything is gone;
Your life's work has been destroyed.
Squeeze trigger (yes/no)?
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I'm sorry, there's -- um --
insufficient -- what's-it-called?
The term eludes me ...
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Windows NT crashed.
I am the Blue Screen of Death.
No one hears your screams.
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Seeing my great fault
Through darkening blue windows
I begin again
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The code was willing,
It considered your request,
But the chips were weak.
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A file that big?
It might be very useful.
But now it is gone.
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Errors have occurred.
We won't tell you where or why.
Lazy programmers.
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Login incorrect.
Only perfect spellers may
enter this system.
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wind catches lily
scatt'ring petals to the wind:
segmentation fault
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First snow, then silence.
This thousand dollar screen dies
so beautifully.
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The Tao that is seen
Is not the true Tao, until
You bring fresh toner.
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Yesterday it worked
Today it is not working
Windows is like that
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To have no errors
Would be life without meaning
No struggle, no joy
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You step in the stream,
but the water has moved on.
This page is not here.
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Hal, open the file
Hal, open the damn file, Hal
open the file, please Hal
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The ten thousand things
How long do any persist?
Netscape, too, has gone.
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Serious error.
All shortcuts have disappeared.
Screen. Mind. Both are blank.
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A pie
In the face of technology
Small blessings.