Haiku for MickySoft error messages.
Imagine if, instead of incomprehensible geeky text strings, your computer using MickySoft 'Bloze produced error messages in "Haiku" . . You step in the stream, but the water has moved on. The page is not here. ********* Chaos reigns within. Reflect, repent, and reboot. Order shall return. ********* Aborted effort. Close all that you have. You ask far too much. ********* Three things are certain Death, taxes, and lost data. Guess which has occurred. ********* Serious error. All shortcuts have disappeared. Screen. Mind. Both are blank. ********* A crash reduces your expensive computer to a simple stone. ********* Yesterday it worked. Today it is not working. Windows is like that. ********* First snow, then silence This thousand dollar screen dies so beautifully. ********* VERY GOOD!! :) Windows NT crashed. I am the Blue Screen of Death. No one hears your screams. ********* A file that big? It might be very useful. But now it is gone. ********* The Web site you seek just cannot be located. But others exist. ********* Stay the patient course. Of little worth is your ire. The network is down. ********* Having been erased The document you're seeking Must now be retyped. ********* Rather than a beep Or a rude error message, These words "File not found." -- Winbloze: 32-bit extensions and a graphical shell for a 16-bit patch to an 8-bit operating system originally coded for a 4-bit microprocessor, written by a 2-bit company that can't stand 1-bit of competition.
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 28 March 2001 01:43, Fred A. Miller wrote:
Imagine if, instead of incomprehensible geeky text strings, your computer using MickySoft 'Bloze produced error messages in "Haiku" . .
Interestingly enough, most of those error messages are real. For a while, my second OS was BeOS, which is really nice, but most of the apps I use are not available for it (gee, where did I hear that one before) and it's not meant for multiple users. Anyway, Netpositive, the included web browser, will bring up one of those haikus if it can't connect to a site. I thought that was pretty cool. - -- James Oakley Engineering - SolutionInc Ltd. joakley@solutioninc.com http://www.solutioninc.com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE6wikF+FOexA3koIgRAv0zAJ9khKEIBNr1FzumgrZK7WRm0wF9sgCeLTo/ 47LzE7eoSMi4S/32lyQ606s= =EBH/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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Fred A. Miller
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James Oakley