[Goober5000]

No, it's not the usual spam. I stumbled upon the Backspace section of PC Magazine a while ago, and it's provided many entertaining snapshots of techie non sequiturs.  Here are a few select examples:








And two examples of odd juxtaposition of news and advertisements...

[Setekh]

I have a good one, that popped up on my screen once.

[TheCelestialOne]

Classic:

[Ulala]

lol...

[Fineus]

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.

[Fractux]

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

[Stunaep]

[Gortef]

[IceFire]

LOL!

Go poetry!

[Woolie Wool]

[Flipside]

ROFL I'd prefer those error messages to the standard ones

Flipside

[Hippo]

[karajorma]

I friend of mine once told me that he got an error which simply stated

"This error should never happen"

[Taristin]

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.

[Setekh]

Heh. I wonder sometimes, who comes up with those things...

[Gloriano]

:LOL:

[Styxx]

On computer languages:

http://www.computerjokes.net/094.htm

[Styxx]

Feel free to add entries for your language of choice. Here's mine:

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.

[Styxx]

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.

[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...