Bad User! No Program for You!

[Michael]

Now this is funny!

On Saturday 12 August 2006 22:27, Richard Wilson wrote:
> 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
> ----------------------------
>
> 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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