FW: Haiku Error Messages

Joe Barrera (joebar@MICROSOFT.com)
Fri, 13 Feb 1998 14:10:53 -0800


Windows NT crashed.
I am the Blue Screen of Death.
No one hears your screams.

* Peter Rothman

Seeing my great fault
Through darkening blue windows
I begin again

* Chris Walsh

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Subject: Haiku Error Messages

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Haiku Computer Error Messages
Salon Magazine (http://www.salonmagazine.com/21st/
<http://www.salonmagazine.com/21st/> )
Three things are certain:
Death, taxes, and lost data.
Guess which has occurred.

* David Dixon

Everything is gone;
Your life's work has been destroyed.
Squeeze trigger (yes/no)?
* David Carlson

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Honorable Mentions:
I'm sorry, there's-um-
insufficient-what's-it-called?
The term eludes me ...

* Owen Mathews

Windows NT crashed.
I am the Blue Screen of Death.
No one hears your screams.

* Peter Rothman

Seeing my great fault
Through darkening blue windows
I begin again

* Chris Walsh

The code was willing,
It considered your request,
But the chips were weak.

* Barry L. Brumitt

Printer not ready.
Could be a fatal error.
Have a pen handy?

* Pat Davis

A file that big?
It might be very useful.
But now it is gone.

* David J. Liszewski

Errors have occurred.
We won't tell you where or why.
Lazy programmers.

* Charlie Gibbs

Server's poor response
Not quick enough for browser.
Timed out, plum blossom.

* Rik Jespersen

Chaos reigns within.
Reflect, repent, and reboot.
Order shall return.

* Suzie Wagner

Login incorrect.
Only perfect spellers may
enter this system.

* Jason Axley

This site has been moved.
We'd tell you where, but then we'd
have to delete you.

* Charles Matthews

wind catches lily
scatt'ring petals to the wind:
segmentation fault

* Nick Sweeney

ABORTED effort:
Close all that you have.
You ask way too much.

* Mike Hagler

First snow, then silence.
This thousand dollar screen dies
so beautifully.

* Simon Firth

With searching comes loss
and the presence of absence:
"My Novel" not found.

* Howard Korder

The Tao that is seen
Is not the true Tao, until
You bring fresh toner.

* Bill Torcaso

The Web site you seek
cannot be located but
endless others exist

* Joy Rothke

Stay the patient course
Of little worth is your ire
The network is down

* David Ansel

A crash reduces
your expensive computer
to a simple stone.

* James Lopez

There is a chasm
of carbon and silicon
the software can't bridge

* Rahul Sonnad

Yesterday it worked
Today it is not working
Windows is like that

* Margaret Segall

To have no errors
Would be life without meaning
No struggle, no joy

* Brian M. Porter

You step in the stream,
but the water has moved on.
This page is not here.

* Cass Whittington

No keyboard present
Hit F1 to continue
Zen engineering?

* Jim Griffith

Hal, open the file
Hal, open the damn file, Hal
open the, please Hal

* Jennifer Jo Lane

Out of memory.
We wish to hold the whole sky,
But we never will.

* Francis Heaney

Having been erased,
The document you're seeking
Must now be retyped.

* Judy Birmingham

The ten thousand things
How long do any persist?
Netscape, too, has gone.

* Jason Willoughby

Rather than a beep
Or a rude error message,
These words: "File not found."

* Len Dvorkin

Serious error.
All shortcuts have disappeared.
Screen. Mind. Both are blank.