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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: Goober5000 on November 03, 2003, 09:15:25 pm
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No, it's not the usual spam. ;) I stumbled upon the Backspace (http://www.pcmag.com/category2/0,4148,2075,00.asp) section of PC Magazine a while ago, and it's provided many entertaining snapshots of techie non sequiturs. Here are a few select examples:
(http://common.ziffdavisinternet.com/util_get_image/2/0,3363,i=25330,00.gif)
(http://common.ziffdavisinternet.com/util_get_image/1/0,3363,i=10078,00.gif)
(http://common.ziffdavisinternet.com/util_get_image/1/0,3363,sz=1&i=13680,00.gif)
And two examples of odd juxtaposition of news and advertisements...
(http://common.ziffdavisinternet.com/util_get_image/2/0,3363,sz=1&i=23435,00.jpg)
(http://common.ziffdavisinternet.com/util_get_image/1/0,3363,sz=1&i=13400,00.jpg)
:D
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I have a good one, that popped up on my screen once. :D
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Classic:
(http://www.ahajokes.com/cartoon/somesortoferror.jpg)
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lol...
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Nice, I like it!
Reminds me of the "burn baby, burn" image for ZIP Disk writers that showed up next to a story about a child that died in a house fire.
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That's funny, I just got this forward yesterday:
> In Japan, they have replaced the impersonal and unhelpful
> Microsoft error
> messages with Haiku poetry messages. They're used to
> communicate a timeless
> message, often achieving a wistful, yearning and powerful insight
> through
> extreme brevity. Enjoy......
>
>
> The Web site you seek
> Cannot be located, but
> Countless more exist.
>
> -------------------------
>
> 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.
>
> --------------------------
>
> Yesterday it worked.
> Today it is not working.
> Windows is like that.
>
> --------------------------
>
> 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.
>
> --------------------------
>
> A crash reduces
> Your expensive computer
> To a simple stone.
>
> --------------------------
>
> Three things are certain:
> Death, taxes and lost data.
> Guess which one has occurred.
>
> --------------------------
>
> You step into the stream,
> But the water has moved on.
> This page is not here.
>
> --------------------------
>
> Out of memory.
> We wish to hold the whole sky,
> But we never will.
>
> --------------------------
>
> Having been erased,
> The document you're seeking
> Must now be retyped.
>
> --------------------------
>
> Serious error.
> All shortcuts have disappeared.
> Screen. Mind. Both are blank
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:lol:
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:lol:
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LOL!
Go poetry!
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:lol:
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ROFL I'd prefer those error messages to the standard ones :D
Flipside :D
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:lol:
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I friend of mine once told me that he got an error which simply stated
"This error should never happen" :D
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Originally posted by Fractux
> Yesterday it worked.
> Today it is not working.
> Windows is like that.
>
>
> Three things are certain:
> Death, taxes and lost data.
> Guess which one has occurred.
Read those a looong time ago, but these two were my favorites. :)
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Heh. :) I wonder sometimes, who comes up with those things... ;)
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:LOL:
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On computer languages:
http://www.computerjokes.net/094.htm
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Feel free to add entries for your language of choice. Here's mine: :D
J2EE: You want to shoot yourself in the foot, but when you try you realize you need to request both the gun and the foot from an object factory. You do it and try again, to find out that the context wasn't properly initialized, so the bullet is lost between the gun and your foot. You initialize the context and try again, only to get a TriggerPullException, being caused by excessive pull on the trigger. You adjust it to pull the trigger more slowly, and it works - completely blowing your feet off. Yes, both of them.
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Oh, and a pretty cool one by Dreamer2001 from SB:
Perl: You shoot yourself in the foot in an ingeniously brief and efficient way. You fail to document, come back to the code a year later and, being unable to decypher the command, run it and accidentally shoot yourself in the other foot. Dammit.
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'Windows NT crashed.
I am the Blue Screen of Death.
No one hears your screams.'
Seen this before. On the 'Jargon File'.
A guy at my college hacked Windows to add this to the BSOD. The technician's reaction was... funny...
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Originally posted by Descenterace
'Windows NT crashed.
I am the Blue Screen of Death.
No one hears your screams.'
Seen this before. On the 'Jargon File'.
A guy at my college hacked Windows to add this to the BSOD. The technician's reaction was... funny...
[color=66ff00]If anyone's familiar with the technique pass it on. I could have SOOOO much fun with that. :lol:
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actually hacking windows to add this to the BSOD.
well, i geus you need a hobby, but it's pretty damn funny.
also, would it be possible to create a BSOD in the startup/shutdown screen format? that would be really, really fun.
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Originally posted by Maeglamor
[color=66ff00]If anyone's familiar with the technique pass it on. I could have SOOOO much fun with that. :lol:
[/color]
"A fatal exception OE has occurred because Windows is a crappy, unreliable operating system programmed by people who don't give a damn about the quality of the product. Please save your work if possible and restart your computer."
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Clicky (www.laughnet.net/archive/compute/bsod.htm)
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:lol: "This just goes to show that Microsoft continues to innovate at a much faster pace than open source. I have yet to see any evidence that Linux even has a BSOD, let alone a customizable one."
I like that program languages humour page, Styxx. Pity there isn't one for Python. :D
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I was kinda hoping Mikhael would post one, but I don't think he noticed the thread. :p
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Originally posted by Maeglamor
Clicky (www.laughnet.net/archive/compute/bsod.htm)
:lol:
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well, linux has a BSOD, as a screensaver.
it comes with RH9, as a combo of the BSOD, the Mac variant, the OS/2 variant, and some other OS's i can't remember
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I heard somewhere that if you screw the kernel up (i.e. change some source code) you can get a linux BSOD. I've never seen it myself. Closest thing I've seen is a kernel panic.
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and how could you describe that?
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allowing them to instead have a Mauve Screen of Death or even a Paisley Screen of Death
It's actually possible to do that, on Windows 98 at least. I'm not sure how to do it exactly but I'm positive I noticed the option when I was browsing the X-Setup plug-ins once.
It's also possible to make Windows 2000 (and possibly XP as well although I've never tried it) crash on command (USER_INITIATED_CRASH or something is the code) by (I think) holding the Ctrl key and pressing Scroll Lock twice. This "feature" is (naturally) disabled by default (it's controled through a registry key) but an X-Setup plug in also exists to change that.
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(http://www.userfriendly.org/cartoons/archives/01jun/uf003129.gif)
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How to implemet one's own mesages?
That haiku poetry rocks!