Message from discussion Linux Rocks - film at 11

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From: "D. C. Sessions" <d...@lumbercartel.com>
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Linux Rocks - film at 11
Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2001 20:30:05 -0700
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In <slrn9svfd9.ojr.postmas...@tux.andor.dropbear.id.au> Paul Colquhoun posted:
> On 18 Oct 2001 23:12:56 -0600, Craig Kelley <i...@inconnu.isu.edu> wrote:
> | "[H]omer" <u...@ftc.com> writes:

> | I can add another hundred, or so, like-wise error "messages" to that
> | one.  My favorite is a WINS error we got and the error message in the
> | event viewer went like this (I kid you not):
> | 
> |  "WINS encountered an error.  The error is in the data."
> | 
> | Nice.
> 
> My fave "error" message is from win2k. A service hadn't started at boot
> and I was investigating why. I attempted to start the service manually.
> The error that this generated was something like:
> 
> "The service is not running because no attempts have been made to start
> it". (paraphrased, from memory, as I am not near the box in question)
> 
> Remember, this error was *caused* by an attempt to start the service!

From a Cadnetix CAD workstation circa 1986:
"Fatal error #xyz: We should never get here."

See, Microsoft *does* learn from history.
Now *what* they learn ...

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| I'm old enough that I don't have to pretend to be grown up.|
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