On Thu, Jul 05, 2007 at 04:46:52PM +0100, John Murphy wrote:
Wasn't there, once upon a time, an error message in FreeBSD which
reported 'This doesn't look like Kansas, Toto'?
I remember seeing that error message somewhere, but do not remember
where or if it was in FreeBSD.
jerry
Seem
Jerry McAllister wrote:
On Thu, Jul 05, 2007 at 04:46:52PM +0100, John Murphy wrote:
Wasn't there, once upon a time, an error message in FreeBSD which
reported 'This doesn't look like Kansas, Toto'?
I remember seeing that error message somewhere, but do not remember
where or if it
Alex Zbyslaw wrote:
Jerry McAllister wrote:
On Thu, Jul 05, 2007 at 04:46:52PM +0100, John Murphy wrote:
Wasn't there, once upon a time, an error message in FreeBSD which
reported 'This doesn't look like Kansas, Toto'?
I remember seeing that error message somewhere, but
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Favourite worst written error message in history:
Keyboard not found. Press F1 to continue.
I have always loved this one!! Who made that up!?
Someone at IBM. That's what the original IBM PC, PC-AT, and
(presumably) PC-XT displayed if the keyboard
On Wed, Jul 04, 2007 at 08:14:44PM -0700, Garrett Cooper wrote:
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Except that bash requires all the icky GNU utilities to build so you
have to GNUify your system.
And perl doesn't? It was GPL last I knew.
The entirety of Perl falls under the GPL and Artistic
Anything you have actually seen is fair game.
Ted
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Wasn't there, once upon a time, an error message in FreeBSD which
reported 'This doesn't look like Kansas, Toto'?
Seem to recall it occurring when I deleted the directory I was 'in'.
I may have imagined it though!
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John.
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Subject: Re: The worst error message in history belongs to... BIND9!
On Wed, Jul 04, 2007 at 08:14:44PM -0700, Garrett Cooper
On Thu, Jul 05, 2007 at 09:19:00AM -0700, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:
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On Tue, 3 Jul 2007 22:05:50 -0600
Chad Perrin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, Jul 03, 2007 at 11:41:13PM -0400, Robert Huff wrote:
Chad Perrin writes:
Isn't Perl part of the base system these days?
Perl has not been part of the base system for several years
and was
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Subject: Re: The worst error message in history belongs to... BIND9!
On Tue, Jul 03, 2007, Martin McCormick
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This is
On Wed, Jul 04, 2007 at 12:26:01PM +0100, RW wrote:
On Tue, 3 Jul 2007 22:05:50 -0600
Chad Perrin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, Jul 03, 2007 at 11:41:13PM -0400, Robert Huff wrote:
Chad Perrin writes:
Isn't Perl part of the base system these days?
Perl has not
How far do we get to go back in time? From the first online fortran compiler:
ugh1 and ugh2. In fairness these were conditions that were not supposed to
happen, but somehow they always do. In more recent times I always liked,
invalid page fault this perhaps as late as win98.
Andrea Venturoli wrote:
Robert Huff wrote:
=?iso-8859-1?Q?Kyrre_Nyg=E5rd?= writes:
It has to be the worst written error message in history.
Not even close. I commend to you the Amiga's BSOD:
Software Guru
Meditation Number
On Wed, 4 Jul 2007, CyberLeo Kitsana wrote:
Andrea Venturoli wrote:
Robert Huff wrote:
=?iso-8859-1?Q?Kyrre_Nyg=E5rd?= writes:
It has to be the worst written error message in history.
Not even close. I commend to you the Amiga's BSOD:
Software Guru
Eduardo Viruena Silva wrote:
On Wed, 4 Jul 2007, CyberLeo Kitsana wrote:
Andrea Venturoli wrote:
Robert Huff wrote:
=?iso-8859-1?Q?Kyrre_Nyg=E5rd?= writes:
It has to be the worst written error message in history.
Not even close. I commend to you the Amiga's BSOD:
If one is going to require the installation of something that may
not be part of a base system, that something might as well be bash :)
Except that bash requires all the icky GNU utilities to build so you
have to GNUify your system.
And perl doesn't? It was GPL last I knew.
The second
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
If one is going to require the installation of something that may
not be part of a base system, that something might as well be bash :)
Except that bash requires all the icky GNU utilities to build so you
have to GNUify your system.
And perl doesn't? It
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McCormick
Then, there is the ultimate, the Check engine. light on the
modern car.
Check engine - CEL
It would be so nice if it said some indication as to
the seriousness of the problem so
Reminds me of a typical windows user i dealt with who saw an error about
explorer.exe and how it could not be read and let it slide. :-P
using my wicked non user friendly skillz of the damned, i personally
like the concept of a simple pebkac error when bind refuses to start
due to a
On Mon, Jul 02, 2007 at 03:11:56PM -0500, Martin McCormick wrote:
#! /bin/sh
a = 5
that's enough to make it happen. Run that, and you get:
a: not found
Interestingly enough, if you run that same script in a
Debian Linux environment, you get:
./testfile: line 2: a: command
Paul Chvostek writes:
This is actually just the difference between sh and bash. You'll see
the latter error if you type `a = 5` in bash in any OS. It just so
happens that most Linux distributions don't have a real sh:
I kind of thought that was the real issue. While
something like
On Tue, 03 Jul 2007 08:44:14 -0500
Martin McCormick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Paul Chvostek writes:
This is actually just the difference between sh and bash. You'll
see the latter error if you type `a = 5` in bash in any OS. It
just so happens that most Linux distributions don't have a
You could make it more zen-like, perhaps:
You are out of tune with the Universe, grasshopper. Continue your studies
And, if everything was correct it could issue:
awakening has been attained, entering zazen
Ted
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On Tue, Jul 03, 2007, Martin McCormick wrote:
Paul Chvostek writes:
This is actually just the difference between sh and bash. You'll see
the latter error if you type `a = 5` in bash in any OS. It just so
happens that most Linux distributions don't have a real sh:
I kind of thought
On Tue, 2007-07-03 at 09:36 -0700, Bill Campbell wrote:
On Tue, Jul 03, 2007, Martin McCormick wrote:
Paul Chvostek writes:
This is actually just the difference between sh and bash. You'll see
the latter error if you type `a = 5` in bash in any OS. It just so
happens that most Linux
This is actually just the difference between sh and bash ...
differences in, say, arithmetic handling and loops can sometimes
mean rewriting parts of shell scripts depending on whether it is
going to run in BSD or Linux.
That's a major argument for doing things in python or perl as
they
On Tue, Jul 03, 2007 at 07:34:20PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This is actually just the difference between sh and bash ...
differences in, say, arithmetic handling and loops can sometimes
mean rewriting parts of shell scripts depending on whether it is
going to run in BSD or
Chad Perrin writes:
Isn't Perl part of the base system these days?
Perl has not been part of the base system for several years and
was deprecated for some time before that.
Robert Huff
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On Tue, Jul 03, 2007 at 11:41:13PM -0400, Robert Huff wrote:
Chad Perrin writes:
Isn't Perl part of the base system these days?
Perl has not been part of the base system for several years and
was deprecated for some time before that.
Is it part of the default install without
On Tue, Jul 03, 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This is actually just the difference between sh and bash ...
differences in, say, arithmetic handling and loops can sometimes
mean rewriting parts of shell scripts depending on whether it is
going to run in BSD or Linux.
That's a major
On Tue, Jul 03, 2007 at 09:29:03PM -0700, Bill Campbell wrote:
On Tue, Jul 03, 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This is actually just the difference between sh and bash ...
differences in, say, arithmetic handling and loops can sometimes
mean rewriting parts of shell scripts depending on
Jeffrey Goldberg writes:
I still remember as a newcomer to Unix a long long time ago getting
Bad magic number
In retrospect, I suspect that I'd typed ld where I'd meant to type ls.
I have been doing things on Unix systems since about
1990 and the thing I run across that makes
On Thursday 31 May 2007, Tom Wilson wrote:
I always liked one of the messages from an old version of the VMS (4 or 5?)
C compiler(may not be exactly it, but this was included):
Bad Code
Or the Level I BASIC error messages on a TRS-80.
What?
How?
Sorry?
And that's all folks. The entire
At 14:38 31/05/2007, Robert Huff wrote:
=?iso-8859-1?Q?Kyrre_Nyg=E5rd?= writes:
It has to be the worst written error message in history.
Not even close. I commend to you the Amiga's BSOD:
Software Guru
On Jun 5, 2007, at 4:39 PM, Eduardo Morras wrote:
At 14:38 31/05/2007, Robert Huff wrote:
=?iso-8859-1?Q?Kyrre_Nyg=E5rd?= writes:
It has to be the worst written error message in history.
Not even close. I commend to you the Amiga's BSOD:
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Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2007 5:39 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: The worst error message in history belongs to... BIND9!
=?iso-8859-1?Q?Kyrre_Nyg=E5rd?= writes:
It has to be the
Robert Huff wrote:
=?iso-8859-1?Q?Kyrre_Nyg=E5rd?= writes:
It has to be the worst written error message in history.
Not even close. I commend to you the Amiga's BSOD:
Software Guru
Meditation Number
On Thu, May 31, 2007 at 02:53:44PM +0200, Andrea Venturoli wrote:
Robert Huff wrote:
=?iso-8859-1?Q?Kyrre_Nyg=E5rd?= writes:
It has to be the worst written error message in history.
Not even close. I commend to you the Amiga's BSOD:
On Thu, 31 May 2007 08:38:41 -0400
Robert Huff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
=?iso-8859-1?Q?Kyrre_Nyg=E5rd?= writes:
It has to be the worst written error message in history.
Not even close. I commend to you the Amiga's BSOD:
Software Guru
On 5/31/07, George [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Or how about favourite most useless man page entry:
The notion of errors is ill defined.
Come to think of it, that last one is almost poetic, isn't it? In a Zen
sort of way. Anyone recall which manpage it's from?
grep
It has to be the worst written error message in history.
Not even close. I commend to you the Amiga's BSOD:
Software Guru
Meditation Number
very long string of hex digits
On 5/31/07, Bob Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 5/31/07, George [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Or how about favourite most useless man page entry:
The notion of errors is ill defined.
Come to think of it, that last one is almost poetic, isn't it? In a Zen
sort of way. Anyone
On Thu, 31 May 2007 06:56:51 -0700
George [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Favourite worst written error message in history:
Keyboard not found. Press F1 to continue.
I have always loved this one!! Who made that up!?
Rico
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It has to be the worst written error message in history.
Not even close. I commend to you the Amiga's BSOD:
Software Guru
Meditation Number
very long string of hex digits
On Thu, 31 May 2007 12:02:26 -0400
Bob Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 5/31/07, George [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Or how about favourite most useless man page entry:
The notion of errors is ill defined.
Come to think of it, that last one is almost poetic, isn't it?
Favourite worst written error message in history:
Keyboard not found. Press F1 to continue.
I have always loved this one!! Who made that up!?
Someone at IBM. That's what the original IBM PC, PC-AT, and
(presumably) PC-XT displayed if the keyboard was dead or not
plugged in.
It was
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