Sep 25 2008

My Favorite Error Messages

Published by Lucello at 4:18 pm under Cultural

“This process is taking longer than expected. Odd.”
|–> Linux error.

A fatal error
Continue, SmartStart cannot
Agony reboot
|–> SmartStart haiku

“You don’t exist. Go away!”
|–> after removing the /etc/passwd file

“Some evil bastard moved the damned config file on me.”
|–> some ftp program

“you mispeled a keywurd”

$ make love
Not war?
|–> from the good old days

“What?”
|–> garbled command in vi

From the Thirteen Greatest Error Messages of All Time, the comments section.

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One Response to “My Favorite Error Messages”

  1. verbosuson 24 Jul 2009 at 4:40 am

    I’ve always been fond of this alert from Adobe: “Adobe Updater: The Adobe Updater must update itself before it can check for updates. Would you like to update the Adobe Updater now?”

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