Haiku for computers

[GILD]

Japanese replacements of the impersonal and unhelpful Microsoft error messages:

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A file that big?

It might be very useful.

But now it is gone.

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The Web site you seek

Can not be located but

Countless more exist.

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Chaos reigns within.

Reflect, repent, and reboot.

Order shall return.

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ABORTED effort:

Close all that you have worked on.

You ask far too much.

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Windows NT crashed.

I am the Blue Screen of Death.

No one hears your screams.

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Yesterday it worked.

Today it is not working.

Windows is like that.

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First snow, then silence.

This thousand dollar screen dies

So beautifully.

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With searching comes loss

And the presence of absence:

"My Novel" not found.

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The Tao that is seen

Is not the true Tao-until

You bring fresh toner.

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Stay the patient course.

Of little worth is your ire.

The network is down.

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A crash reduces

Your expensive computer

To a simple stone.

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Three things are certain:

Death, taxes, and lost data.

Guess which has occurred.

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You step in the stream,

But the water has moved on.

This page is not here.

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Out of memory.

We wish to hold the whole sky,

But we never will.

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Having been erased,

The document you're seeking

Must now be retyped.

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Serious error.

All shortcuts have disappeared.

Screen. Mind. Both are blank.

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[evil-nick]

The web browser that came with the Be Operating System (bows head in respect) actually used those as the error messages :)

[steveyo]

ride only one wheel?
it isn't impossible
just try for a while

[leo]

Originally posted by evil-nick
The web browser that came with the Be Operating System (bows head in respect) actually used those as the error messages :)
BeOS

Have seen it, but dunno much of it.

But long ago you could crash those machines by doing a simple HTTP request like http://123.com
The common DNS deamon on BeOS then got confused because it does not expect "com" as "B class". For that problem were no error messages made up!

Result: still effective RFC's that "forbids" digit-only (2nd level and lower) domain names.
And so, ages after being rid of this BeOS specific bug, it is still hell for this ISP (http://www.unixcycle.com/) to register/host a domain (http://www.128.nl/) for a company called "1,2.. 8"

Have a dig to see how I fixed it.

Hopefully when IPv6 becomes standard the RFC will finally be adjusted...
Though ENUM (http://www.itu.int/osg/spu/enum/index.phtml) may be another threath for it.

[James_Potter]

I saw a website once that had one of those messages every time a 404 Error page came up. It was awesome.

[leo]

In order to find some unicycle content I did hit this 404 (http://asmallvictory.net/archives/004112.html20).
Coul have been some more tastefull, and less provocating. But stilll, a creative 404.

[maestro8]

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