Messages in Japan

Reythak · 2004-11-04 21:37:20

These are 16 actual error messages seen on the computer screens in
Japan. Some are written in Haiku. Aren't these better than, "Your
computer has performed an illegal operation"?

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Chaos reigns within.
Reflect, repent, and reboot.
Order shall return.
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Program aborting:
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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Your file was so big.
It might be very useful.
But now it is gone.
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Stay the patient course.
Of little worth is your ire.
The network is down.
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The Web site you seek
cannot be located,
but countless more exist.
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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.
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Screen.
Mind.
Both are blank

Talduras · 2004-11-04 21:41:36

I saw these. Some are kinda funny.

Speaking of which, odd that you and I would each post a thread about haikus at practically the same time. :shock:

Reythak · 2004-11-04 21:56:35

its that interplanetary link that i have to be able to read minds... ... ... :twisted:

Reythak · 2004-11-05 09:49:46

looking around i found this site, it apparantly isn't really japanese messeges, but it is still funny

http://www.snopes.com/computer/internet/haiku.asp

Reythak · 2004-11-05 09:52:13

heres a bunch that they show at the origin of these haikus and the original author of said ones.

T H E W I N N E R S

Three things are certain:
Death, taxes, and lost data.
Guess which has occurred.
-- David Dixon
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Everything is gone;
Your life's work has been destroyed.
Squeeze trigger (yes/no)?
-- David Carlson

H O N O R A B L E __M E N T I O N S:

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