From Jeroen.vandijk@getronics.nl Thu Aug 17 14:02:08 2000 Xref: news.spc.edu comp.os.vms:275944 Path: news.spc.edu!ord-feed.news.verio.net!news.verio.net!newsmaster.cc.columbia.edu!panix!news-out.cwix.com!newsfeed.cwix.com!mvb.saic.com!info-vax From: "Dijk, Jeroen van" Newsgroups: comp.os.vms Subject: Sugestion for new error messages Message-ID: <2795B75EF003D311801A00A0C906B51187E468@cucexec.gbc.getronics.nl> Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2000 17:20:47 +0200 Organization: Info-Vax<==>Comp.Os.Vms Gateway X-Gateway-Source-Info: Mailing List Lines: 69 Content-Return: prohibited Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Mime-Version: 1.0 You may have seen this before since its been around for awhile, but its worth a repeat. Jeroen If computer error messages were haikus: First snow, then silence. This thousand dollar screen dies so beautifully. With searching comes loss and the presence of absence: "My Novel" not found. Three things are certain: death, taxes, and lost data. Guess which has occurred. A file that big? It might be very useful, but now it is gone. Windows NT crashed. I am the Blue Screen of Death. No one hears your screams. Errors have occurred. We won't tell you where or why. Lazy programmers. The code was willing. It considered your request, but the chips were weak. Printer not ready. Could be a fatal error. Have a pen handy? This site has been moved. We'd tell you where, but then we'd have to delete you. ABORTED effort: Close all that you have. You ask way too much. The Web site you seek cannot be located but endless others exist. A crash reduces your expensive computer to a simple stone. Yesterday it worked. Today it is not working. Windows is like that. Having been erased, the document you're seeking must now be retyped. Serious error. All shortcuts have disappeared. Screen. Mind. Both are blank.