Not sure if it is for real, but funny!

SERENE JAPANESE COMPUTER MESSAGES

Here are 16 actual error messages seen on the computer screens in Japan, where some are written in Haiku. Aren't these better than "your computer has performed an illegal operation"?

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The Web site you seek cannot be located, but countless more exist.

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Chaos reigns within. Reflect, repent, and reboot. Order shall return.

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Program aborting: Close all that you have worked on. You ask far too

much.

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Windows NT crashed. I am the Blue Screen of Death. No one hears your

screams.

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Yesterday it worked. Today it is not working. Windows is like that.

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Your file was so big. It might be very useful. But now it is gone.

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Stay the patient course. Of little worth is your ire. The network is

down.

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A crash reduces your expensive computer to a simple stone.

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Three things are certain: Death, taxes and lost data. Guess which has

occurred?

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You step in the stream, but the water has moved on. This page is not

here.

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Out of memory. We wish to hold the whole sky, But we never will.

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Having been erased, The document you're seeking must now be retyped.

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Serious error. All shortcuts have disappeared.

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Screen. Mind. Both are blank.

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*nix has the best errors...


nuff said

[ 11-18-2003, 22:07: Message edited by: Unstable ]

Here are a few more "haiku" errors:

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First snow, then silence.
This thousand dollar screen dies
so beautifully.

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With searching comes loss
and the presence of absence:
"My Novel" not found.

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The Tao that is seen
Is not the true Tao, until
You bring fresh toner.

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Errors have occurred.
We won't tell you where or why.
Lazy programmers.

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Seeing my great fault
Through darkening blue windows
I begin again.

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The code was willing,
It considered your request,
But the chips were weak.

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Printer not ready.
Could be a fatal error.
Have a pen handy?

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Server's poor response
Not quick enough for browser.
Timed out, plum blossom.

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Login incorrect.
Only perfect spellers may
enter this system.

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This site has been moved.
We'd tell you where, but then we'd
have to delete you.

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Wind catches lily
scatt'ring petals to the wind:
segmentation fault

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There is a chasm
of carbon and silicon
the software can't bridge.

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To have no errors
would be life without meaning
No struggle, no joy.

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No keyboard present
Hit F1 to continue
Zen engineering?

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The ten thousand things
How long do any persist?
Netscape, too, has gone.

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Rather than a beep
Or a rude error message,
These words: "File not found."

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Lasse