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NCJanow
Citizen
Username: Librarylady
Post Number: 1029
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, October 16, 2003 - 6:41 pm: |     |
I received this list from a e-pal in Australia. So much better than the usual messages we see!
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"?
>
>--------------------------------------------
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>The Web site you seek cannot be located,
>but countless more exist.
>
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>
>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.
>
>------------------------------------------------
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>Yesterday it worked. Today it is not working.
>Windows is like that.
>
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>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.
>
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>A crash reduces your expensive computer to a simple stone.
>
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>Three things are certain: Death, taxes and lost data.
>Guess which has occurred?
>
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>You step in the stream, but the water has moved on.
>This page is not here.
>
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>Out of memory. We wish to hold the whole sky,
>But we never will.
>
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>Having been erased,
>The document you're seeking must now be retyped.
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>Serious error. All shortcuts have disappeared.
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>Screen.
>
>Mind.
>
>Both are blank.
>
NCJ aka LibraryLady
On a coffee break..or something like it. |
Joan
Citizen
Username: Joancrystal
Post Number: 2012
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Friday, October 17, 2003 - 4:47 pm: | |
Way better than the standard "(name of program) has performed an illegal function and will be closed down". Whenever I get this message, which is more often than I would like, it often leaves me wondering just how full the computer jails have become. |
ReallyTrying
Citizen
Username: Reallytrying
Post Number: 166
Registered: 1-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, October 22, 2003 - 11:27 am: | |
I received an interesting one yesterday. I tried to copy it here but apparently cannot.
The message is very simple. The title bar says:
WestCiteLink
and the message says:
Object threw an unknown exception!
No one here knows what it means. |
woodstock
Citizen
Username: Woodstock
Post Number: 435
Registered: 9-2002
| | Posted on Wednesday, October 22, 2003 - 2:12 pm: | |
RT,
Have your IT department upgrade your version of Norton Antivirus (or if it's at home, you might need to upgrade your personal version).
http://tinyurl.com/rxcp
and search for WestCiteLink
Waiting For The Electrician, Or Someone Like Him |
howardf
Citizen
Username: Howardf
Post Number: 190
Registered: 6-2001
| | Posted on Wednesday, October 22, 2003 - 2:20 pm: | |
Not to be a skeptical meanie, but those are not actual error messages. But they are clever. |
Dave Ross
Supporter
Username: Dave
Post Number: 5473
Registered: 4-1998
| | Posted on Wednesday, October 22, 2003 - 3:13 pm: | |
Objects throwing exceptions sounds like the error was on the server. Wait a while and try again. |
lseltzer
Citizen
Username: Lseltzer
Post Number: 1802
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Wednesday, October 22, 2003 - 6:21 pm: | |
"WestCiteLink is a software application that automatically finds all legal citations in your documents and links them to the full-text versions on Westlaw®."
"Object threw an unknown exception!" indicates the catch-all phrase for an error-handling part of a program. In other words, there was some sort of error in the program and the portion of the code that determines what the specific error was couldn't determine it. |
Tom Reingold the prissy-pants
Citizen
Username: Noglider
Post Number: 797
Registered: 1-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, October 23, 2003 - 12:41 pm: | |
Larry, are you the Larry Seltzer who writes for eweek?
Tom Reingold
There is nothing
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ReallyTrying
Citizen
Username: Reallytrying
Post Number: 167
Registered: 1-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, October 23, 2003 - 1:59 pm: | |
Thanks, everyone! |
lseltzer
Citizen
Username: Lseltzer
Post Number: 1806
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, October 23, 2003 - 2:11 pm: | |
Tom - Yes
http://security.eweek.com/ |
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