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- From: rick@hugin.imat.com (Rick Moen)
- Subject: Re: [svlug] hacker alert...
- To: javilk@meg.mall-net.com (Javilk)
- Date: Tue, 17 Feb 1998 19:12:14 -0800 (PST)
- Cc: stig@hackvan.com, alvin@planet.fef.com, mfw@datamain.com, svlug@svlug.org
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- >> Cheers, Everything is gone;
- >> Rick Moen Your life's work has been destroyed.
- >> rick@hugin.imat.com Squeeze trigger (yes/no)?
- >> -- David Carlson (winner, haiku error message contest)
- >
- > Work is not life.
- > Memories and roses endure
- > Transient loss.
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- _Five, seven, five_, a
- Haiku's syllables unfold:
- Glist'ning like the snow.
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- Here's the list of entrants:
- [forwards snipped]
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- Date: Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:40:55 -0800
- From: Peter Thompson <peter.thompson@starfish.com>
- Organization: Starfish Software
- X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en] (Win95; U)
- To: Peter Thompson <peter.thompson@starfish.com>
- Subject: (fwd) Haiku Error Messages
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- W I N N E R S:
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- Three things are certain:
- Death, taxes, and lost data.
- Guess which has occurred.
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- -- David Dixon
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- Everything is gone;
- Your life's work has been destroyed.
- Squeeze trigger (yes/no)?
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- -- David Carlson
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- H O N O R A B L E M E N T I O N S:
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- I'm sorry, there's -- um --
- Insufficient -- what's-it-called?
- The term eludes me ...
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- -- Owen Mathews
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- Windows NT crashed.
- I am the Blue Screen of Death.
- No one hears your screams.
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- -- Peter Rothman
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- Seeing my great fault
- Through darkening blue windows
- I begin again.
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- -- Chris Walsh
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- The code was willing,
- It considered your request,
- But the chips were weak.
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- -- Barry L. Brumitt
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- Printer not ready.
- Could be a fatal error.
- Have a pen handy?
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- -- Pat Davis
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- A file that big?
- It might be very useful.
- But now it is gone.
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- -- David J. Liszewski
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- Errors have occurred.
- We won't tell you where or why.
- Lazy programmers.
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- -- Charlie Gibbs
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- Server's poor response
- Not quick enough for browser.
- Timed out, plum blossom.
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- -- Rik Jespersen
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- Chaos reigns within.
- Reflect, repent, and reboot.
- Order shall return.
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- -- Suzie Wagner
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- Login incorrect.
- Only perfect spellers may
- Enter this system.
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- -- Jason Axley
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- This site has been moved.
- We'd tell you where, but then we'd
- Have to delete you.
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- -- Charles Matthews
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- Wind catches lily
- Scatt'ring petals to the wind:
- Segmentation fault.
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- -- Nick Sweeney
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- ABORTED effort:
- Close all that you have.
- You ask way too much.
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- -- Mike Hagler
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- First snow, then silence.
- This thousand dollar screen dies
- So beautifully.
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- -- Simon Firth
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- With searching comes loss
- And the presence of absence:
- "My Novel" not found.
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- -- Howard Korder
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- The Tao that is seen
- Is not the true Tao, until
- You bring fresh toner.
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- -- Bill Torcaso
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- The Web site you seek
- Cannot be located but
- Endless others exist.
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- -- Joy Rothke
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- Stay the patient course:
- Of little worth is your ire.
- The network is down.
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- -- David Ansel
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- A crash reduces
- Your expensive computer
- To a simple stone.
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- -- James Lopez
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- There is a chasm
- Of carbon and silicon
- The software can't bridge.
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- -- Rahul Sonnad
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- Yesterday it worked;
- Today it is not working.
- Windows is like that.
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- -- Margaret Segall
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- To have no errors
- Would be life without meaning.
- No struggle, no joy.
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- -- Brian M. Porter
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- You step in the stream,
- But the water has moved on.
- This page is not here.
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- -- Cass Whittington
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- No keyboard present:
- Hit F1 to continue.
- Zen engineering?
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- -- Jim Griffith
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- Hal, open the file.
- Hal, open the damn file, Hal.
- Open the, please Hal.
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- -- Jennifer Jo Lane
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- Out of memory.
- We wish to hold the whole sky,
- But we never will.
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- -- Francis Heaney
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- Having been erased,
- The document you're seeking
- Must now be retyped.
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- -- Judy Birmingham
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- The ten thousand things,
- How long do any persist?
- Netscape, too, has gone.
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- -- Jason Willoughby
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- Rather than a beep
- Or a rude error message,
- These words: "File not found."
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- -- Len Dvorkin
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- Serious error.
- All shortcuts have disappeared.
- Screen. Mind. Both are blank.
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- -- Ian Hughes
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