Haiku Computer Error Messages

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


       -- David Dixon
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       Everything is gone;
       Your life's work has been destroyed.
       Squeeze trigger (yes/no)?


       -- David Carlson
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       I'm sorry, there's -- um --
       insufficient -- what's-it-called?
       The term eludes me ...


       -- Owen Mathews
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       Windows NT crashed.
       I am the Blue Screen of Death.
       No one hears your screams.


       -- Peter Rothman
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       Seeing my great fault
       Through darkening blue windows
       I begin again


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


       -- Barry L. Brumitt
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       Printer not ready.
       Could be a fatal error.
       Have a pen handy?


       -- Pat Davis
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       A file that big?
       It might be very useful.
       But now it is gone.


       -- David J. Liszewski
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       Errors have occurred.
       We won't tell you where or why.
       Lazy programmers.


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


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


       -- Suzie Wagner
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       Login incorrect.
       Only perfect spellers may
       enter this system.


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


       -- Charles Matthews
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       wind catches lily
       scatt'ring petals to the wind:
       segmentation fault


       -- Nick Sweeney
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       ABORTED effort:
       Close all that you have.
       You ask way too much.


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


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


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


       -- Bill Torcaso
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       The Web site you seek
       cannot be located but
       endless others exist


       -- Joy Rothke
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       Stay the patient course
       Of little worth is your ire
       The network is down


       -- David Ansel
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       A crash reduces
       your expensive computer
       to a simple stone.


       -- James Lopez
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       There is a chasm
       of carbon and silicon
       the software can't bridge


       -- Rahul Sonnad
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       Yesterday it worked
       Today it is not working
       Windows is like that


       -- Margaret Segall
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       To have no errors
       Would be life without meaning
       No struggle, no joy


       -- Brian M. Porter
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       You step in the stream,
       but the water has moved on.
       This page is not here.


       -- Cass Whittington
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       No keyboard present
       Hit F1 to continue
       Zen engineering?


       -- Jim Griffith
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       Hal, open the file
       Hal, open the damn file, Hal
       open the, please Hal


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


       -- Francis Heaney
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       Having been erased,
       The document you're seeking
       Must now be retyped.


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


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


       -- Len Dvorkin
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       Serious error.
       All shortcuts have disappeared.
       Screen. Mind. Both are blank.


   -- Craig Smith?
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       control, alt, delete
       digital hari-kiri
       three-fingered salute


       -- Chuck Powell

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