[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!?
Someone at IBM. That's what the original IBM PC, PC-AT, and
(presumably) PC-XT displayed if the keyboard was
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
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 wa
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
>
> Se
On Thu, Jul 05, 2007 at 09:19:00AM -0700, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:
> > -Original Message-
> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Chad Perrin
> > Sent: Thursday, July 05, 2007 12:39 AM
> > To: FreeBSD Questions
> > Subject: Re
> -Original Message-
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Chad Perrin
> Sent: Thursday, July 05, 2007 12:39 AM
> To: FreeBSD Questions
> Subject: Re: The worst error message in history belongs to... BIND9!
>
>
> On Wed, Jul 0
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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> -Original Message-
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> Sent: Wednesday, July 04, 2007 12:19 PM
> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: OT: Re: The worst error message in
On Wed, Jul 04, 2007 at 08:14:44PM -0700, Garrett Cooper wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >>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 Art
[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 wa
> > 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 s
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:
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
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
>
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.
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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?
> > >
> -Original Message-
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Tuesday, July 03, 2007 7:34 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: The worst error message in his
> -Original Message-
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Bill Campbell
> Sent: Tuesday, July 03, 2007 9:36 AM
> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: The worst error message in history belongs to... BIND9!
>
>
> O
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
>
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 scri
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.
>>
>> Th
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 with
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 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
> >> 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 pe
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
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 tho
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> Sent: Tuesday, July 03, 2007 2:24 AM
> To: Ted Mittelstaedt
> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: The worst error message in history belongs to... BIND9!
>
>
> Reminds me of a typical windows user i dealt with who saw an error about
> expl
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 h
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 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:
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 named
> -Original Message-
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Martin
> 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 pr
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
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:
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 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
> -Original Message-
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Robert Huff
> 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
> > 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.
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 poe
>
>
> > > > 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, 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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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.
> > > 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
> >
>
> That's not e
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 sa
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:
>
> Softwa
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:
> >
> >
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
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