Haiku Error Messages
| Three things are certain: | Everything is gone; | ||
| Death, taxes, and lost data. Guess which has occurred. -- David Dixon |
Your life's work has been destroyed. Squeeze trigger (yes/no)? -- David Carlson |
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| I'm sorry, there's -- um -- | Windows NT crashed. | ||
| insufficient -- what's-it-called? The term eludes me ... -- Owen Mathews |
I am the Blue Screen of Death. No one hears your screams. -- Peter Rothma |
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| Seeing my great fault | The code was willing, | ||
| Through darkening blue windows I begin again -- Chris Walsh |
It considered your request, But the chips were weak. -- Barry L. Brumitt |
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| Printer not ready. | A file that big? | ||
| Could be a fatal error. Have a pen handy? -- Pat Davis |
It might be very useful. But now it is gone. -- David J. Liszewski |
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| Errors have occurred. | Server's poor response | ||
| We won't tell you where or why. Lazy programmers. -- Charlie Gibbs |
Not quick enough for browser. Timed out, plum blossom. -- Rik Jespersen |
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| Chaos reigns within. | Login incorrect. | ||
| Reflect, repent, and reboot. Order shall return. -- Suzie Wagner |
Only perfect spellers may enter this system. -- Jason Axley |
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| This site has been moved. | Wind catches lily | ||
| We'd tell you where, but then we'd have to delete you. -- Charles Matthews |
scatt'ring petals to the wind: segmentation fault -- Nick Sweeney |
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| First snow, then silence. | ABORTED effort: | ||
| This thousand dollar screen dies so beautifully. -- Simon Firth |
Close all that you have. You ask way too much. -- Mike Hagler |
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| The Tao that is seen | With searching comes loss | ||
| Is not the true Tao, until You bring fresh toner. -- Bill Torcaso |
and the presence of absence: "My Novel" not found. -- Howard Korder |
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| Stay the patient course | The Web site you seek | ||
| Of little worth is your ire The network is down -- David Ansel |
cannot be located but endless others exist -- Joy Rothke |
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| There is a chasm | A crash reduces | ||
| of carbon and silicon the software can't bridge -- Rahul Sonnad |
your expensive computer to a simple stone. -- James Lopez |
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| To have no errors | Yesterday it worked | ||
| Would be life without meaning No struggle, no joy -- Brian M. Porter |
Today it is not working Windows is like that -- Margaret Segall |
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| No keyboard present | You step in the stream, | ||
| Hit F1 to continue Zen engineering? -- Jim Griffith |
but the water has moved on. This page is not here. -- Cass Whittington |
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| Out of memory. | Hal, open the file | ||
| We wish to hold the whole sky, But we never will. -- Francis Heaney |
Hal, open the damn file, Hal open the, please Hal -- Jennifer Jo Lane |
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| The ten thousand things | Having been erased, | ||
| How long do any persist? Netscape, too, has gone. -- Jason Willoughby |
The document you're seeking Must now be retyped. -- Judy Birmingham |
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| Rather than a beep | Serious error. | ||
| Or a rude error message, These words: "File not found." -- Len Dvorkin |
All shortcuts have disappeared. Screen. Mind. Both are blank. -- Ian Hughes |
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