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- Slade605, on 07/15/2008, -2/+49Holy *****. it's all on one page.
- will27, on 07/15/2008, -3/+29# ERROR: A really big ***** UP has been detected !!
- TheDeepFriar, on 07/15/2008, -5/+31A file that big?
It might be very useful.
But now it is gone.
Haiku FTW! - trollick, on 07/15/2008, -9/+33Unusually lame.
- kh99, on 07/15/2008, -10/+30ERROR: List of 189 is too long and boring, please choose 10-20 of the funniest and resubmit.
- Seifey, on 07/15/2008, -1/+17Does everybody actually make a mess out of their coffee while reading Digg?
I see this comment in every story. - OrangeTide, on 07/15/2008, -1/+17dugg down for not being 189 pages.
- adougherty, on 07/15/2008, -0/+16What would have made this actually funny is a little context. As in how these errors are generated.
Look at me! I can create silly errors too!
"Error: You're a dork"
It's not that funny, but with context, it could be. - vinceislegend, on 07/15/2008, -1/+14I found that funny and am beyond redemption. And also I am truly beyond redemption.
- ulmedas, on 07/15/2008, -1/+12"Call me paranoid but finding ‘/*’ inside this comment makes me suspicious"
Sounds like someone knows the sort of type-o's that are common in my code. - kingo123, on 07/15/2008, -8/+18This article surprisingly sucked.
- saetaes, on 07/15/2008, -1/+10I can't believe this one didn't make it:
kernel: Uhhuh. NMI received. Dazed and confused, but trying to continue
kernel: You probably have a hardware problem with your RAM chips
Gotta love Linux kernel programmers... - inactive, on 07/15/2008, -5/+14"Only few mortals may try to enter the Twiligth Zone"
oh how funny!
It made me spill my coffee all over the desk! - OrangeTide, on 07/15/2008, -0/+8missing "lpt on fire". http://everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=35822
- shadowspawn, on 07/16/2008, -1/+8#22: This can’t happen.
I laughed. And cried a bit. Because as a programmer you eventually think it can't, so you code that error message. But it does. Then you move the error trap. Then it does again. It really is a sign of frustration and newness to a particular coding mental set.
Then your eyes open up after 20 hours at staring at 10 nested processes and old header files someone forgot about and some obscure driver ***** nested on bad memory or weird browser configs... and learn that if it can't, it will.
Someone should write the progression of the "This can't happen." mental state to the "WTF JESUS CHRIST" one displayed with output during debugging.
Guess I'm a nerd. - jrburkh, on 07/15/2008, -2/+9Since when is 189 considered 'a little' with regard to articles on the internets?
- e2superman, on 07/16/2008, -0/+7Error: You must be a Windows User.
- alacava, on 07/15/2008, -1/+8How about those ID-10-T errors?
- inactive, on 07/15/2008, -1/+7Some of my favorites not listed here:
Panic!
Double Panic!
Bus overloaded: catch the next one
Buffer overflow: flush again - alexforcefive, on 07/15/2008, -0/+6Yeah, it would have been a really awesome top 10. Alas.
- inactive, on 07/16/2008, -1/+7Hot Damn! You need more ram!
- manitoba98xp, on 07/15/2008, -0/+6Not hard to replicate, though. Just put this in the Makefile in the current directory:
love:
@echo Not war?
I suspect that some clever developer just put that in his app's Makefile, but you can put that wherever you want. It works. (Note: the @echo line should actually be intended with a tab, but Digg doesn't show tabs) - withoutamartyr, on 07/16/2008, -0/+5File can be considered two syllables.
- MrRadar, on 07/16/2008, -0/+5They left out my favorite Unix error message: ENOTTY ("Not a typewriter").
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Not_a_typewriter - MateyO, on 07/15/2008, -0/+5A developer friend was on a team that coded an error that never should have been seen in a production environment, alas, it was. The error:
"Improper gender, unable to have sex." - zeptobyte, on 07/15/2008, -0/+5Oh there were a lot of error messages, true, but only a little of it was humorous, which is all that was claimed.
- elektriknoizz, on 07/16/2008, -0/+5The first line is only 4 syllables.
- thebigbradwolf, on 07/16/2008, -0/+4ksh: users: cannot execute.
*sigh* what a shame. - bexamous, on 07/16/2008, -0/+4HAH, I just searched this page for "Dazed" knowing someone would have already added this missing error message. This is one of my favorites. Very professional :).
- yorian, on 07/15/2008, -0/+4My result on Linux is still pretty funny:
make love
make: *** No rule to make target `love'. Stop. - BlueSkyfish, on 07/16/2008, -0/+4When I spent all weekend playing Mario Kart alone, I was fine. When I stayed up until 4am last night watching starcraft tournaments, I was fine. But after reading 189 Linux error messages, I'm beginning to worry that I might need a social life.
- identitymatrix, on 07/16/2008, -0/+4my favorite was:
"User Error: An unknown error has occurred in an unidentified program while executing an unimplemented function at an undefined address. Correct error and resubmit." - brianez21, on 07/15/2008, -0/+4Would be nice if it said where the errors came from. I identified just a few.
- OrangeTide, on 07/15/2008, -0/+3my favorite too!
- tcpip4lyfe, on 07/16/2008, -0/+3A byte walks into a bar, sits down, grabs a beer. Bartender says, “Geez man, what’s wrong with you?” Byte says, “Parity error.”
Batender goes, “Yeah, I thought you looked a bit off”. - inactive, on 07/16/2008, -0/+3Ya, OS X uses Apple's own UNIX core called Darwin, which was developed using code from NEXTSTEP and FreeBSD. I don't think there's any Linux in it at all.
- trollick, on 07/16/2008, -0/+3perror ("Humorous error message");
I'm a funny unix programmer now. - hambend, on 07/16/2008, -0/+3On our internal website, errors are accompanied by a popup with a random FAIL picture (you know the ones) and the text "as you can see, something has gone horribly wrong". It definitely helps to ease the tension between developers and users.
- AncientPC, on 07/16/2008, -0/+2I had one the other day as I was shutting down Ubuntu:
Something has gone horribly wrong, recursive segmentation fault detected! - jellygraph, on 07/16/2008, -0/+2Guru meditation is not a unix error, as far as I'm aware...it really was made popular by Amiga OS (which I guess you could argue is UNIX like in nature).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guru_Meditation - Virgule, on 07/16/2008, -0/+2#7
Momentaraly writing while seeking..
Constantly writing while seeking..
Momentaraly writing while reading..
HA! - bigteebo, on 07/16/2008, -0/+2I hope whoever wrote #5 has retired from programming. All that scientific mumbo-jumbo and he/she can't even turn off the caps lock.
- vinceislegend, on 07/16/2008, -0/+2echo Whale_penis
- wilsondus, on 07/16/2008, -0/+2lol... not tonight, I've got a headache
- inactive, on 07/16/2008, -0/+2Especially if you laughed at them because only like 5-10 were good.
My story is much like yours except i was playing Puyo Puyo alone. /I'M/ the one in need of a social life. - silfiriel, on 07/16/2008, -0/+2just make a file named Makefile with text editor write:
love:
@echo Not War?
save it in a folder in Home, go to the folder with cd and type make love - CanuckPenguin, on 07/16/2008, -1/+3I love that one... even when one of my servers was having that problem. I was having a bad day but when I found that in the error logs I just laughed out loud.
- filefly, on 07/16/2008, -0/+2filefly@chromium:~$ touch /dev/breasts
touch: cannot touch `/dev/breasts': Permission denied - CrushThemTorg, on 07/16/2008, -0/+2Try /dev/breastsa and /dev/breastsb – maybe it's two devices.
- inactive, on 07/16/2008, -0/+2I do that message every so often...
And every time so far, i was wrong.
Even microsoft had a "This shouldn't happen", which I forget how to trigger. -
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