Che mettano meno il buon umore in chi se li ritrova davanti durante una sessione di lavoro, non è dato sapere. Così come non posso dire che sia certa al 100% la loro autenticità. Certo è che la collezione di messaggi di errore UNIX e Linux raccolti da Mike Tremell è davvero divertente. Ecco una mia personale top twenty:
- ERROR 1164 HOW IN THE HELL DID YOU GET HERE
- “Keyboard not present, press any key”
- Momentaraly writing while seeking..
Constantly writing while seeking..
Momentaraly writing while reading.. - Error: Error ocurred when attempting to print error message.
- ERROR 0: POWER NOT ON
- A funny symbol that I can’t read has just been input. Continue, and I’ll forget that it ever happened.
- Maybe you should try asking a human?
- Liar, Liar! Pants on Fire!
- User Error: An unknown error has occurred in an unidentified program while executing an unimplemented function at an undefined address. Correct error and resubmit.
- Good afternoon, gentelman, I’m a HAL 9000 Computer
- Error: Success
- Something Rotten in Denmark, Interp Stack Not ALigned
- YOU JUST TRIED TO FAKE-OUT MOTHER NATURE, AND SHE CAUGHT YOU! SUPER-VULCAN NOW HAS YOUR NAME ON HIS ENEMY LIST, AND YOU CAN BE CERTAIN THAT FUTURE ATTEMPTS TO RESOURCE LFN 0,3,OR 6 WILL RESULT IN YOUR BEING ABORTED, SPINDLED, MANGLED, FOLDED, PUNCHED, DELETED, AND DEALLOCATED.
- Only real wizzards know the spells to open the gate of paradize
- One of your faux pas seems to have wounded me deeply.. in fact, I’m barely conscious. Please fix it and try again.
- ?Ouch, That HURTS!
- You must be joking.
- This label is the target of a goto from outside of the block containing this label AND this block has an automatic variable with an initializer AND your window wasn’t wide enough to read this whole error message
- Not tonight, I’ve got a headache.
- I the most critical examiner of all have determined that there is an error on line 42.