Back in the old mainframe days, when computers cost many millions of dollars and required a staff of 20 to keep them running, computer output would often say, "FATAL ERROR". Beginners would sometimes worry a little that the message meant fatal to them.
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Microsoft and Windows XP are worse than the CCIA says:
Windows XP Shows the Direction Microsoft is Going.
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I just got the results. I failed my Turing test.
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I'm a dyslexic agnostic with insomnia... I lie awake at night wondering if there really is a dog!
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Don't anthropomorphize computers. They hate that.
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Bad spellers of the world, untie!
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Every night, tired dyslexics around the world look forward to 8 hours of peels.
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Lotteries are a tax on people who suck at math.
Being a geek means never having to ask, "Paper or plastic?"
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"'Tis some script kidd33z", muttered I, tapping on my server port. "Only this, and nothing more."
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Who is General Failure, and why is he reading my hard drive?
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Any attempt to brew coffee with a teapot should result in the error code "418: I'm a teapot".
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Back in the old mainframe days, when computers cost many millions of dollars and required a staff of 20 to keep them running, computer output would often say, "FATAL ERROR". Beginners would sometimes worry a little that the message meant fatal to them.
It's sad to live in a world where knowing how to program your VCR actually lowers your social status...
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ERROR: Cannot find file REALITY.SYS - Universe halted, please reboot!
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This is a Unix email virus. It works on the honor system:
If you're running a variant of Unix, please forward this message to everyone you know and delete a bunch of your files at random.
Thank you for your cooperation.
by pjl @ patsoffice . com
The metric system is a tool of the devil!! I get forty rods to the hogshead, and that's the way i likes it!!
Hackers are just a migratory lifeform with a tropism for computers.
Check your buffers.
Good point. The core problem is that most people don't listen, and most people are not interested in most of what happens in their lives.