This is tacked to a cork board in my cubbyhole at work - no idea who put it there or what the source is, but I've been wanting to share it for a long time. Finally got around to photocopying, scanning, and extacting the text from it. There are some real gems in here!
In Japan, they have replaced the impersonal and unhelpful Microsoft error messages with Haiku poetry messages. Haiku poetry has strict construction rules each poem has only 17 syllables; 5 syllables in the first, 7 in the second, 5 in the third. They are used to communicate a timeless message, often achieving a wistful, yearning and powerful insight through extreme brevity.
Here are 16 actual error messages from Japan:
- The web site you seek Cannot be located, but Countless more exist.
- Chaos reigns within. Reflect, repent, and reboot. Order shall return.
- Program aborting: close all that you have worked on. You ask far too much.
- Windows NT crashed. I am the Blue screen of Death. No one hears your screams.
- Yesterday it worked. Today it is not working. windows is like that.
- Your file was so big. It might be very useful. But now it is gone.
- Stay the patient course. of little worth is your ire. The network is down.
- A crash reduces Your expensive computer To a simple stone.
- Three things are certain: Death, taxes and lost data. Guess which has occurred.
- You step in the stream, But the water has moved on. This page is not here.
- Out of memory. we wish to hold the whole sky, But we never will.
- Having been erased, The document you're seeking must now be retyped.
- Serious error. All shortcuts have disappeared. Screen. Mind. Both are blank.
Isn't that better than: "your computer has performed an illegal operation"?
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ok - that's how much of an effort I made before posting - none...) and post what I can come up with.
... And, by what you say, it also seems that this RAM is easily gained back (unlike firefox for instance). [/off topic]
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