In 1998, the folks over at Salon magazine had a contest as part of "The 21st Challenge" (The Culture of Technology - The Technology of Culture). Part of this contest was writing Haiku Error Messages.
Wouldn't it be nice if instead of you computer returning something that more closely resembled linux puke than English every time that Windows does something stupid it spat out something along the lines of this gem:
Three things are certain:
Death, taxes, and lost data.
Guess which has occurred.
Now, this would be no more helpful than, 'This program has performed an illegal function and must close. See 0X14800SIDO24 in kerlan stack...', it is a lot more friendly. Death, taxes, and lost data.
Guess which has occurred.
Here is the best that should be used for the dang '404 - Page not found' browser errors you get when a link is broken:
The Web site you seek
cannot be located but
endless others exist
The huge geeks over at GNU.org also have a list of these, although many seem to be duplicated. Other massive geek humor can be found here.
cannot be located but
endless others exist
The huge geeks over at GNU.org also have a list of these, although many seem to be duplicated. Other massive geek humor can be found here.
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