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  From: Brian Marr <sirreg@dove.net.au>
  To  : LinuxSA <linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au>
  Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2000 20:09:18 +0930

[Fwd: Windows Speaks - Gently]

I thought LinuxSA readers may enjoy this
-from the linux.redhat.misc newgroup 

"Cyberchondri@c" wrote:
> 
> LOL !
> <safety_net@webtv.net> wrote in message
> news:12169-38F52890-68@storefull-158.iap.bryant.webtv.net...
> > In Japan, Sony Vaio Machines have replaced the impersonal and unhelpful
> > Microsoft Windows error messages with their own Japanese haiku poetry,
> > each only 17 syllables.
> > ------------------------
> > A file that big?
> > It might be very useful.
> > But now it is gone.
> > ------------------------
> > The Web site you seek
> > Can not be located but
> > Countless more exist.
> > ------------------------
> > Chaos reigns within.
> > Reflect, repent, and reboot.
> > Order shall return.
> > ------------------------
> > ABORTED effort:
> > Close all that you have worked on.
> > You ask way too much.
> > ------------------------
> > Windows 98 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.
> > ------------------------
> > First snow, then silence.
> > This thousand dollar screen dies
> > So beautifully.
> > ------------------------
> > With searching comes loss
> > And the presence of absence:
> > "My Novel" not found.
> > ------------------------
> > The Tao that is seen
> > Is not the true Tao, until
> > You bring fresh toner.
> > ------------------------
> > 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. Both are blank.
> >

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