[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Favourite worst written error message in history:
Keyboard not found. Press F1 to continue.
I have always loved this one!! Who made that up!?
Someone at IBM. That's what the original IBM PC, PC-AT, and
(presumably) PC-XT displayed if the keyboard was
Alex Zbyslaw wrote:
> Jerry McAllister wrote:
>
> >On Thu, Jul 05, 2007 at 04:46:52PM +0100, John Murphy wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> >>Wasn't there, once upon a time, an error message in FreeBSD which
> >>reported 'This doesn't look like Kansas, Toto'?
> >>
> >>
> >
> >I remember seeing that error
Jerry McAllister wrote:
On Thu, Jul 05, 2007 at 04:46:52PM +0100, John Murphy wrote:
Wasn't there, once upon a time, an error message in FreeBSD which
reported 'This doesn't look like Kansas, Toto'?
I remember seeing that error message somewhere, but do not remember
where or if it wa
On Thu, Jul 05, 2007 at 04:46:52PM +0100, John Murphy wrote:
> Wasn't there, once upon a time, an error message in FreeBSD which
> reported 'This doesn't look like Kansas, Toto'?
I remember seeing that error message somewhere, but do not remember
where or if it was in FreeBSD.
jerry
>
> Se
On Thu, Jul 05, 2007 at 09:19:00AM -0700, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:
> > -Original Message-
> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Chad Perrin
> > Sent: Thursday, July 05, 2007 12:39 AM
> > To: FreeBSD Questions
> > Subject: Re
> -Original Message-
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Chad Perrin
> Sent: Thursday, July 05, 2007 12:39 AM
> To: FreeBSD Questions
> Subject: Re: The worst error message in history belongs to... BIND9!
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>
> On Wed, Jul 0
Wasn't there, once upon a time, an error message in FreeBSD which
reported 'This doesn't look like Kansas, Toto'?
Seem to recall it occurring when I deleted the directory I was 'in'.
I may have imagined it though!
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Anything you have actually seen is fair game.
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> Sent: Wednesday, July 04, 2007 12:19 PM
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> Subject: Re: OT: Re: The worst error message in
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> Sent: Wednesday, July 04, 2007 9:30 AM
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> Subject: Re[2]: The worst error message in history belongs to... BIND9!
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>
> On July 04, 2007 at 09:
On Wed, Jul 04, 2007 at 08:14:44PM -0700, Garrett Cooper wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >>Except that bash requires all the icky GNU utilities to build so you
> >>have to GNUify your system.
> >
> >And perl doesn't? It was GPL last I knew.
>
> The entirety of Perl falls under the GPL and Art
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
If one is going to require the installation of something that may
not be part of a base system, that something might as well be bash :)
Except that bash requires all the icky GNU utilities to build so you
have to GNUify your system.
And perl doesn't? It wa
> > If one is going to require the installation of something that may
> > not be part of a base system, that something might as well be bash :)
>
> Except that bash requires all the icky GNU utilities to build so you
> have to GNUify your system.
And perl doesn't? It was GPL last I knew.
> The s
Eduardo Viruena Silva wrote:
On Wed, 4 Jul 2007, CyberLeo Kitsana wrote:
Andrea Venturoli wrote:
Robert Huff wrote:
=?iso-8859-1?Q?Kyrre_Nyg=E5rd?= writes:
It has to be the worst written error message in history.
Not even close. I commend to you the Amiga's BSOD:
On Wed, 4 Jul 2007, CyberLeo Kitsana wrote:
Andrea Venturoli wrote:
Robert Huff wrote:
=?iso-8859-1?Q?Kyrre_Nyg=E5rd?= writes:
It has to be the worst written error message in history.
Not even close. I commend to you the Amiga's BSOD:
Software Guru
Andrea Venturoli wrote:
> Robert Huff wrote:
>> =?iso-8859-1?Q?Kyrre_Nyg=E5rd?= writes:
>>
>>> It has to be the worst written error message in history.
>>
>> Not even close. I commend to you the Amiga's BSOD:
>>
>> Software Guru
>> Meditation Number
>
How far do we get to go back in time? From the first online fortran compiler:
ugh1 and ugh2. In fairness these were conditions that were not supposed to
happen, but somehow they always do. In more recent times I always liked,
"invalid page fault" this perhaps as late as win98.
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On Wed, Jul 04, 2007 at 12:26:01PM +0100, RW wrote:
> On Tue, 3 Jul 2007 22:05:50 -0600
> Chad Perrin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > On Tue, Jul 03, 2007 at 11:41:13PM -0400, Robert Huff wrote:
> > >
> > > Chad Perrin writes:
> > >
> > > > Isn't Perl part of the base system these days?
> > >
On July 04, 2007 at 09:53AM Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:
[snip]
> Actually perl has a lot of problems too. One of the biggest is that
> perl script writers always seem to think like you, in that perl is
> consistent across all platforms.
>
> The biggest problems I've seen with perl scripts are when
> -Original Message-
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> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Tuesday, July 03, 2007 7:34 PM
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> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: The worst error message in his
> -Original Message-
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Bill Campbell
> Sent: Tuesday, July 03, 2007 9:36 AM
> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: The worst error message in history belongs to... BIND9!
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>
> O
On Tue, 3 Jul 2007 22:05:50 -0600
Chad Perrin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 03, 2007 at 11:41:13PM -0400, Robert Huff wrote:
> >
> > Chad Perrin writes:
> >
> > > Isn't Perl part of the base system these days?
> >
> > Perl has not been part of the base system for several years
>
On Tue, Jul 03, 2007 at 09:29:03PM -0700, Bill Campbell wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 03, 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >> >> This is actually just the difference between sh and bash ...
> >> >
> >> >differences in, say, arithmetic handling and loops can sometimes
> >> >mean rewriting parts of shell scri
On Tue, Jul 03, 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> >> This is actually just the difference between sh and bash ...
>> >
>> >differences in, say, arithmetic handling and loops can sometimes
>> >mean rewriting parts of shell scripts depending on whether it is
>> >going to run in BSD or Linux.
>>
>> Th
On Tue, Jul 03, 2007 at 11:41:13PM -0400, Robert Huff wrote:
>
> Chad Perrin writes:
>
> > Isn't Perl part of the base system these days?
>
> Perl has not been part of the base system for several years and
> was deprecated for some time before that.
Is it part of the default install with
Chad Perrin writes:
> Isn't Perl part of the base system these days?
Perl has not been part of the base system for several years and
was deprecated for some time before that.
Robert Huff
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On Tue, Jul 03, 2007 at 07:34:20PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > >> This is actually just the difference between sh and bash ...
> > >
> > >differences in, say, arithmetic handling and loops can sometimes
> > >mean rewriting parts of shell scripts depending on whether it is
> > >going to run
> >> This is actually just the difference between sh and bash ...
> >
> >differences in, say, arithmetic handling and loops can sometimes
> >mean rewriting parts of shell scripts depending on whether it is
> >going to run in BSD or Linux.
>
> That's a major argument for doing things in python or pe
On Tue, 2007-07-03 at 09:36 -0700, Bill Campbell wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 03, 2007, Martin McCormick wrote:
> >Paul Chvostek writes:
> >> This is actually just the difference between sh and bash. You'll see
> >> the latter error if you type `a = 5` in bash in any OS. It just so
> >> happens that most
On Tue, Jul 03, 2007, Martin McCormick wrote:
>Paul Chvostek writes:
>> This is actually just the difference between sh and bash. You'll see
>> the latter error if you type `a = 5` in bash in any OS. It just so
>> happens that most Linux distributions don't have a real sh:
>
> I kind of tho
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> Sent: Tuesday, July 03, 2007 2:24 AM
> To: Ted Mittelstaedt
> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: The worst error message in history belongs to... BIND9!
>
>
> Reminds me of a typical windows user i dealt with who saw an error about
> expl
On Tue, 03 Jul 2007 08:44:14 -0500
Martin McCormick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Paul Chvostek writes:
> > This is actually just the difference between sh and bash. You'll
> > see the latter error if you type `a = 5` in bash in any OS. It
> > just so happens that most Linux distributions don't h
Paul Chvostek writes:
> This is actually just the difference between sh and bash. You'll see
> the latter error if you type `a = 5` in bash in any OS. It just so
> happens that most Linux distributions don't have a real sh:
I kind of thought that was the real issue. While
something like
On Mon, Jul 02, 2007 at 03:11:56PM -0500, Martin McCormick wrote:
>
> #! /bin/sh
> a = 5
>
> that's enough to make it happen. Run that, and you get:
>
> a: not found
>
> Interestingly enough, if you run that same script in a
> Debian Linux environment, you get:
>
> ./testfile: line 2: a:
Reminds me of a typical windows user i dealt with who saw an error about
explorer.exe and how it could not "be read" and let it slide. :-P
using my wicked non user friendly skillz of the damned, i personally
like the concept of a simple "pebkac error" when bind refuses to start
due to a named
> -Original Message-
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Martin
> McCormick
>
> Then, there is the ultimate, the "Check engine." light on the
> modern car.
Check engine - CEL
> It would be so nice if it said some indication as to
> the seriousness of the pr
Jeffrey Goldberg writes:
> I still remember as a newcomer to Unix a long long time ago getting
>
> "Bad magic number"
>
>
> In retrospect, I suspect that I'd typed "ld" where I'd meant to type "ls".
I have been doing things on Unix systems since about
1990 and the thing I run across
On Jun 5, 2007, at 4:39 PM, Eduardo Morras wrote:
At 14:38 31/05/2007, Robert Huff wrote:
=?iso-8859-1?Q?Kyrre_Nyg=E5rd?= writes:
> It has to be the worst written error message in history.
Not even close. I commend to you the Amiga's BSOD:
At 14:38 31/05/2007, Robert Huff wrote:
=?iso-8859-1?Q?Kyrre_Nyg=E5rd?= writes:
> It has to be the worst written error message in history.
Not even close. I commend to you the Amiga's BSOD:
Software Guru
On Thursday 31 May 2007, Tom Wilson wrote:
> I always liked one of the messages from an old version of the VMS (4 or 5?)
> C compiler(may not be exactly it, but this was included):
>
> Bad Code
Or the Level I BASIC error messages on a TRS-80.
What?
How?
Sorry?
And that's all folks. The entire
> -Original Message-
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Robert Huff
> Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2007 5:39 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: The worst error message in history belongs to... BIND9!
>
>
>
> =?iso-8859-1?Q?Kyrre_Ny
> > Favourite worst written error message in history:
> >
> > Keyboard not found. Press F1 to continue.
>
> I have always loved this one!! Who made that up!?
Someone at IBM. That's what the original IBM PC, PC-AT, and
(presumably) PC-XT displayed if the keyboard was dead or not
plugged in.
On Thu, 31 May 2007 12:02:26 -0400
"Bob Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 5/31/07, George <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Or how about favourite most useless man page entry:
> >
> > The notion of errors is ill defined.
> >
> > Come to think of it, that last one is almost poe
>
>
> > > > It has to be the worst written error message in history.
> > >
> > > Not even close. I commend to you the Amiga's BSOD:
> > >
> > >Software Guru
> > > Meditation Number
> > >
> >
>
On Thu, 31 May 2007 06:56:51 -0700
George <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Favourite worst written error message in history:
>
> Keyboard not found. Press F1 to continue.
I have always loved this one!! Who made that up!?
Rico
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On 5/31/07, Bob Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 5/31/07, George <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Or how about favourite most useless man page entry:
>
>The notion of errors is ill defined.
>
> Come to think of it, that last one is almost poetic, isn't it? In a Zen
> sort of way.
> > > It has to be the worst written error message in history.
> >
> >Not even close. I commend to you the Amiga's BSOD:
> >
> > Software Guru
> >Meditation Number
> >
>
> That's not e
On 5/31/07, George <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Or how about favourite most useless man page entry:
The notion of errors is ill defined.
Come to think of it, that last one is almost poetic, isn't it? In a Zen
sort of way. Anyone recall which manpage it's from?
grep sa
On Thu, 31 May 2007 08:38:41 -0400
Robert Huff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> =?iso-8859-1?Q?Kyrre_Nyg=E5rd?= writes:
>
> > It has to be the worst written error message in history.
>
> Not even close. I commend to you the Amiga's BSOD:
>
> Softwa
On Thu, May 31, 2007 at 02:53:44PM +0200, Andrea Venturoli wrote:
> Robert Huff wrote:
> > =?iso-8859-1?Q?Kyrre_Nyg=E5rd?= writes:
> >
> > > It has to be the worst written error message in history.
> >
> > Not even close. I commend to you the Amiga's BSOD:
> >
> >
Robert Huff wrote:
=?iso-8859-1?Q?Kyrre_Nyg=E5rd?= writes:
It has to be the worst written error message in history.
Not even close. I commend to you the Amiga's BSOD:
Software Guru
Meditation Number
=?iso-8859-1?Q?Kyrre_Nyg=E5rd?= writes:
> It has to be the worst written error message in history.
Not even close. I commend to you the Amiga's BSOD:
Software Guru
Meditation Number
Hello!
I've long wondered where this error message comes from:
"hostname nor servname provided, or not known"
So I grepped my FreeBSD source code and found out it actually belongs to BIND9.
It has to be the worst written error message in history.
Any chance you can change it? Perhaps to somet
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