Re: [FRIDAY] Best error message ever

[Eddie Bush]

Nelson, Laird wrote:


-Original Message-
From: James Turner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
FILE SYSTEM FUKT: Call RMS
   


Oh, that's priceless.  I'm just picturing the matter/anti-matter explosion
that would have resulted had RMS showed up in a room full of generals.


LOL - Have you ever actually met RMS?  I have ... and ... he's a bit ... 
how would you put it ... eccentric?  Seeing him placed in that situation 
would indeed be priceless!

Cheers,
Laird


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RE: [FRIDAY] Best error message ever

[Nelson, Laird]

> -Original Message-
> From: Peter S. Hamlen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Please investigate yourself?  Do you need to hire a private 
> investigator
> to run a background search on yourself?  :)

I just like the fact that it apparently should be the type of
self-investigation that could get you stuck (what would that be, exactly?).
And that you would then be expected to call some team somewhere to come
rescue you from your own idiocy.

SELF-INVESTIGATOR: {with foot wrapped around head}  Hello?  Hello?  Is this
the XYZ team?  Yes, I must say, I'm quite embarrassed; you see I've been
investigating myself, and now I find that I'm rather stuck.  Please don't
tell anyone.

What if you got so stuck you couldn't reach the phone?

Cheers,
Laird

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RE: [FRIDAY] Best error message ever

[Nelson, Laird]

> -Original Message-
> From: James Turner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> FILE SYSTEM FUKT: Call RMS

Oh, that's priceless.  I'm just picturing the matter/anti-matter explosion
that would have resulted had RMS showed up in a room full of generals.

Cheers,
Laird

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Re: [FRIDAY] Best error message ever

[Max Cooper]

I don't think this will trump any of the fine examples posted so far, but I
have always found this gsu error message amusing:

gsu: you won't be doing that today.

This is what you get if you try to gsu to an account that you don't have
access to.

-Max

- Original Message -
From: "Nelson, Laird" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, December 13, 2002 9:42 AM
Subject: [FRIDAY] Best error message ever


> Just ran across this error message in an old legacy system (I couldn't
make
> this up if I tried):
>
> Unspecified security problem. Please investigate yourself, but call [name
> changed to protect the innocent] team if you get stuck.
>
> Cheers,
> Laird
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Re: [FRIDAY] Best error message ever

[Craig R. McClanahan]

On Fri, 13 Dec 2002, Nelson, Laird wrote:

> Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 12:42:32 -0500
> From: "Nelson, Laird" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Reply-To: Struts Users Mailing List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "'[EMAIL PROTECTED]'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: [FRIDAY] Best error message ever
>
> Just ran across this error message in an old legacy system (I couldn't make
> this up if I tried):
>
> Unspecified security problem. Please investigate yourself, but call [name
> changed to protect the innocent] team if you get stuck.
>
> Cheers,
> Laird
>

That one probably tops my previous favorite -- a particular syntax error
in the command line interpreter of an ancient operating system I once used
simply returned:

  You can't do that

Craig


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Re: [FRIDAY] Best error message ever

[Eddie Bush]

LMAO - that's too funny!  (I guess the server is back up now!)

James Turner wrote:


Laird Nelson wrote:
 

Just ran across this error message in an old legacy system (I couldn't
   

make
 

this up if I tried):
   


 

Unspecified security problem. Please investigate yourself, but call
   

[name
 

changed to protect the innocent] team if you get stuck.
   


 

Cheers,
Laird
   


Not even close:

Back when I worked for LISP Machine, Inc., we had a very important demo
of some AI software for a bunch of multi-star Generals at DOD.  Imagine
our chagrin when the following error message popped up:

FILE SYSTEM FUKT: Call RMS

(RMS, of course, being Richard M. Stallman)



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Re: [FRIDAY] Best error message ever

[James Turner]

Laird Nelson wrote:
>Just ran across this error message in an old legacy system (I couldn't
make
>this up if I tried):

>Unspecified security problem. Please investigate yourself, but call
[name
>changed to protect the innocent] team if you get stuck.

>Cheers,
>Laird

Not even close:

Back when I worked for LISP Machine, Inc., we had a very important demo
of some AI software for a bunch of multi-star Generals at DOD.  Imagine
our chagrin when the following error message popped up:

FILE SYSTEM FUKT: Call RMS

(RMS, of course, being Richard M. Stallman)

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Re: [FRIDAY] Best error message ever

[Peter S. Hamlen]

LOL!

Please investigate yourself?  Do you need to hire a private investigator
to run a background search on yourself?  :)

-Peter


On Fri, 2002-12-13 at 12:42, Nelson, Laird wrote:
> Just ran across this error message in an old legacy system (I couldn't make
> this up if I tried):
> 
> Unspecified security problem. Please investigate yourself, but call [name
> changed to protect the innocent] team if you get stuck.
> 
> Cheers,
> Laird
> 
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