Date: Thu, 31 May 2007 22:34:37 -0700 From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com> To: "Robert Huff" <roberthuff@rcn.com>, <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: The worst error message in history belongs to... BIND9! Message-ID: <BMEDLGAENEKCJFGODFOCIEBOCAAA.tedm@toybox.placo.com> In-Reply-To: <18014.49617.224340.697794@jerusalem.litteratus.org>
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> -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org]On Behalf Of Robert Huff > Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2007 5:39 AM > To: questions@freebsd.org > Subject: The worst error message in history belongs to... BIND9! > > > > =?iso-8859-1?Q?Kyrre_Nyg=E5rd?= writes: > > > It has to be the worst written error message in history. > > Not even close. I commend to you the Amiga's BSOD: > > IBM PS/2 POST messages were definitely the worst. Any error would simply issue a numeric code - no text whatsoever. You were to look the numeric code up in some manual or other. That was fine if the code came from a system on the motherboard. It was not fine if the code came from a non-IBM peripheral card since there was no master listing of 3rd party codes back in the old days. Here's a sample list: http://bioscentral.com/misc/ibmdiag.htm Ted
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