[NBLUG/talk] OT: Microsoft Haiku

[Cameron Tully-Smith]

Having just had a bout of trouble with Windows (what else is new) and
using a sniffer to discover an infected copy of MSDE/SQL Server, I thought
I'd forward this (just happened to receive it today).

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Timeless Japanese messages

 In Japan, they have replaced the impersonal and unhelpful Microsoft
 error messages with Haiku poetry messages. Haiku has strict
 construction  rules
 - each poem has only 17 syllables; 5 syllables in the first line, 7 in the
 second, and 5 in the third. They are used to communicate timeless
 messages, often achieving a wistful, yearning and powerful insight through
 extreme brevity. Instead of making you want to throw your computer out the
 window, they have a calming effect. For example:

   > The Web site you seek
   > Cannot be located, but
   > Countless more exist.
   > --------------------------------------------
   > Chaos reigns within.
   > Reflect, repent, and reboot.
   > Order shall return.
   > -----------------------------------------------
   > Program aborting:
   > Close all that you have worked on.
   > You ask far too much.
   > ------------------------------------------------
   > Windows NT crashed.
   > I am the Blue Screen of Death.
   > No one hears your screams.
   > --------------------------------------------------
   > Yesterday it worked.
   > Today it is not working.
   > Windows is like that.
   > ---------------------------------------------------
   > Your file was so big.
   > It must have been quite useful.
   > But now it is gone.
   > -------------------------------------------
   > Stay the patient course.
   > Of little worth is your ire.
   > The network is down.
   > ---------------------------------------------------
   > A crash reduces
   > Your expensive computer
   > To a simple stone.
   > ---------------------------------------------------
   > Three things are certain:
   > Death, taxes and lost data.
   > Guess which has occurred.
   > ---------------------------------------------------
   > You step in the stream,
   > But the water has moved on.
   > This page is not here.
   > ---------------------------------------------------
   > Out of memory.
   > We wish to hold the whole sky,
   > But we never will.
   > ------------------------------------------------
   > Having been erased,
   > The document you're seeking
   > Must now be retyped.
   > ---------------------------------------------------
   > Serious error.
   > All shortcuts have disappeared.
   > Screen. Mind. All is blank.
   > ---------------------------------------------------
   > Now isn't that better than "your computer has performed an illegal
     operation"?



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