Penguin
Diff: FunnyApplicationErrorMessages
EditPageHistoryDiffInfoLikePages

Differences between version 17 and previous revision of FunnyApplicationErrorMessages.

Other diffs: Previous Major Revision, Previous Author, or view the Annotated Edit History

Newer page: version 17 Last edited on Friday, March 4, 2005 6:19:38 pm by JohnMcPherson Revert
Older page: version 16 Last edited on Monday, August 23, 2004 2:05:06 pm by PerryLorier Revert
@@ -9,9 +9,9 @@
  
 The Linux lp# driver says this when your printer signals an error, but doesn't signal which error. Usually this means the printer is offline. (This message was copied from much earlier line printer daemons from unixes of old.) 
  
 __Update:__ [Kernel] 2.4.20 contains the following change from 2.4.19: 
-  
+<verbatim>  
  diff -urN linux-2.4.19/drivers/usb/printer.c 
  linux-2.4.20/drivers/usb/printer.c 
  --- linux-2.4.19/drivers/usb/printer.c Fri Aug 2 17:39:45 2002 
  +++ linux-2.4.20/drivers/usb/printer.c Thu Nov 28 15:53:14 2002 
@@ -20,8 +20,9 @@
  */ 
  
  -static char *usblp_messages[] = { "ok", "out of paper", "off-line", "on fire" }; 
  +static char *usblp_messages[] = { "ok", "out of paper", "off-line", "unknown error" }; 
+</verbatim>  
  
 !! Q276304 - Error Message: Your Password Must Be at Least 18770 Characters and Cannot Repeat Any of Your Previous 30689 Passwords 
  
 A Microsoft Windows error message as reported by comp.risks 21.37 
@@ -36,8 +37,15 @@
  
 !! I refuse to debug myself! 
  
 If you tell gdb to try to attach to its own process. (It can't run it and breakpoint it and the same time). 
+  
+!! Windows MSI Installer  
+Software Installation encountered an unexpected error while  
+reading from the MSI file \\mlc1\deploy\~FireFox-1.0.1-enUS.msi. The  
+error was not serious enough to justify halting the operation. The  
+following error was encountered: The operation completed  
+successfully.  
  
 !! sudo(1) 
  
 If the 'insults' flag is set in /etc/sudoers, sudo will return one of the following errors when an invalid password is entered: 
@@ -91,23 +99,8 @@
 * It's only your word against mine. 
 * I think ... err ... I think ... I think I'll go home 
  
 (Taken from ins_*.h in the source for sudo 1.6.6) 
-  
-!! Fun on the [Shell]  
-  
-If you go to a shell and type 'make love' it says  
- make: *** No rule to make target `love'. Stop.  
-  
-Also, if you type 'man woman' in a shell, it says  
- No manual entry for woman  
-  
-Try these two commands in the C-shell:  
- % make fire  
- make: Don't know how to make fire. Stop.  
- % why not?  
- why: no match.  
-  
  
 ---- 
  
 See also: