Bad User! No Program for You!

[Richard Wilson]

I was in a Sun class when I heard of the following error message.  It
seems that at some point in the far past the AT&T gurus working on UNIX
put in some error messages in Latin -- they were all error messages that
you should NEVER see, but were meaningful...  The class instructor knew
Latin and had a former fellow employee call him up and ask if he could
translate the following:

Ecce! Hodie natus est pro geminus radicus!

The friend was trying to port Unix to a Burroughs mainframe (don't ask
me why!) and upon being told the translation of the message, realized
what he had done: "Behold! Unto us is born a twin to root!".  I've been
told that a few years later all the Latin error messages were removed.

Rich W
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On Fri, 2006-08-11 at 14:24 +0000, shadow wrote:
> God, we need more error messages like this.  It will make half of the 
> users out there THINK about what they are doing.  The other half it will 
> piss off to no end.  It's win-win.
> 
> http://www.thedailywtf.com/images/200608/wtf2.jpg
> 
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