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The Thirteen Greatest Error Messages of All Time

Posted by samzenpus on from the let-them-down-easy dept.

Technologizer writes "They add insult to injury — and computing wouldn't be the same without 'em. So I rounded up a baker's dozen of the most important error messages in computing history — from Does Not Compute to Abort, Retry, Fail to the Sad Mac to the big kahuna of them all — the mighty Blue Screen of Death. And just in case my judgment is off, I include a poll to let the rest of the world vote for the greatest error message of all." I can't believe that "I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that" didn't make the list.

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  1. Copy a file or a billion by Colin+Smith · · Score: 0, Troll

    And Windows still blue screens on you. Poor thing...

    They should associate a wav of a Microsoft engineer's whimpers in the face of Balmer.

     

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  2. Re:WebTV Anecdote "The Wrong Error Message" by electrictroy · · Score: 0, Troll


    Urban Legend.

    Not true.

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  3. Re:Kernel Panic!!! by SL+Baur · · Score: 0, Troll

    The kernel message was "Fucking Sun blows me".

    My favorites:
    $ ar t God
    God does not exist

    $ make love
    make: don't know how to make love

    and of course:
    # /bin/rm -rf /
    rmdir: command not found