A 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”.
My favorite error message did not make this list. In 2.4.x series Linux kernels if your root device could not be mounted during boot you'd get this message:Kernel panic: I have no root and I want to screamSadly, somebody "fixed" this message to something more directly obvious by the time 2.6 came around. I think they got tired of having people ask what it meant.
jerry2aJul 16, 2008
Came here to post that...wasn't that long ago that "printer is on fire" was a pretty standard UNIX error message.
thebigbradwolfJul 16, 2008
ksh: users: cannot execute.*sigh* what a shame.
fileflyJul 16, 2008
filefly@chromium:~$ touch /dev/breaststouch: cannot touch `/dev/breasts': Permission denied
silfirielJul 16, 2008
just 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
tcpip4lyfeJul 16, 2008
A 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”.
jellygraphJul 17, 2008
It doesn't, other than the screensaver with different crashes / bluescreens on different operating systems
sorpigalAug 4, 2008
My favorite error message did not make this list. In 2.4.x series Linux kernels if your root device could not be mounted during boot you'd get this message:Kernel panic: I have no root and I want to screamSadly, somebody "fixed" this message to something more directly obvious by the time 2.6 came around. I think they got tired of having people ask what it meant.