The Zen of Computer Error Messages

MA-Caver

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This is off an e-mail I got from a friend... dunno if it's for real but hey thought it was enough to put it in this forum... Heh... If I had these error messages I wouldn't have to buy a new keyboard every once in a while. :D enjoy

>SERENE JAPANESE COMPUTER MESSAGES
>
> Here are 14 actual error messages reportedly seen on the computer
>screens in Japan, where some are written in Haiku. Aren't these better
>than "your computer has performed an illegal operation"?
>
>
>
> The Web site you seek cannot be located, but countless more exist.
> --------------------------------------------
> Chaos reigns within. Reflect, repent, and reboot. Order shall return.
> ---------------------------------------------
> Program aborting: Close all that you have worked on. You ask far too
>much.
> ------------------------------------------------
> Windows NT crashed. I am the Blue Screen of Death. No one hears your
>screams.
> -------------------------------------
> Yesterday it worked. Today it is not working. Software is like that.
> -------------------------------------
> Your file was so big. It might be very useful. But now it is gone.
> -------------------------------------
> Stay the patient course. Of little worth is your ire. The network is
>down.
> ----------------------------------------------
> A crash reduces your expensive computer to a simple stone.
> -----------------------------------------------
> Three things are certain: Death, taxes and lost data. Guess which has
>occurred?
> ----------------------------------------------
> You step in the stream, but the water has moved on. This page is not
>here.
> -------------------------------------------------
> Out of memory. We wish to hold the whole sky, But we never will.
> ------------------------------------------------
> Having been erased, The document you're seeking must now be retyped.
> -------------------------------------------------
> Serious error. All shortcuts have disappeared.
> -------------------------------------------------
> Screen......Mind.......... Both are blank.
 

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nice, that sounds like the more creative version of my computer
 

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Those are great, but I find it hard to believe they actually showed up on Japanese computers for this simple reason:

The ones listed that are haiku follow the 5-7-5 haiku format IN ENGLISH.


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