Date: Thu, 31 May 2007 06:56:51 -0700 From: George <d1945@sbcglobal.net> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: OT: Re: The worst error message in history belongs to... BIND9! Message-ID: <20070531135651.GA988@home> In-Reply-To: <465EC558.9070102@netfence.it> References: <4e3998c7e72.465ed931@broadpark.no> <18014.49617.224340.697794@jerusalem.litteratus.org> <465EC558.9070102@netfence.it>
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On Thu, May 31, 2007 at 02:53:44PM +0200, Andrea Venturoli wrote:
> Robert Huff wrote:
> > =?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:
> >
> > Software Guru
> > Meditation Number
> > <very long string of hex digits>
>
> Well, there's always Windows' "Insufficient Memory", which usually means
> anything but memory being full :-)
To continue with the tortured construction ...
Favourite worst written error message in history:
Keyboard not found. Press F1 to continue.
Or how about favourite most useless man page entry:
The notion of errors is ill defined.
Come to think of it, that last one is almost poetic, isn't it? In a Zen
sort of way. Anyone recall which manpage it's from?
--
George
Still working on figuring what "PC Load Letter" means
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