From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Aug 6 17:13:15 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA12127 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Thu, 6 Aug 1998 17:13:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from cimlogic.com.au (cimlog.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.51.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA11954 for ; Thu, 6 Aug 1998 17:12:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jb@cimlogic.com.au) Received: (from jb@localhost) by cimlogic.com.au (8.8.8/8.8.7) id KAA02444; Fri, 7 Aug 1998 10:15:59 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from jb) From: John Birrell Message-Id: <199808070015.KAA02444@cimlogic.com.au> Subject: Re: What's your excuse? (humour) In-Reply-To: <19980807093318.N9620@freebie.lemis.com> from Greg Lehey at "Aug 7, 98 09:33:18 am" To: grog@lemis.com (Greg Lehey) Date: Fri, 7 Aug 1998 10:15:58 +1000 (EST) Cc: Ruslan@Shevchenko.Kiev.UA, jb@cimlogic.com.au, lva@dds.nl, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL40 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Greg Lehey wrote: > > Interesting, than during reading this message I receive GPF. > > You guys keep coming up with things I don't know about. That's a Guaranteed Product Failure. 8-) This tends to cause many other excuses to be used. The most common ones being: reboot, reinstall, your computer is not compatible, etc. When occurring in the kernel the message is automatically translated into a more meaningful one - the screen goes blue. This is Microsoft's way of telling you you're having a _really_ bad day, or in the case of a server, that someone was doing something really important and now they're having a _really_ bad day. -- John Birrell - jb@cimlogic.com.au; jb@freebsd.org http://www.cimlogic.com.au/ CIMlogic Pty Ltd, GPO Box 117A, Melbourne Vic 3001, Australia +61 418 353 137 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message