%% "I tried digging myself out of a hole and hit a gas pipe." -- Duplex 1999.10.05 %% Sigmentation fault. %% A polar bear is a rectangular bear after a coordinate transform. %% Reactor error -- core dumped. %% A mouse is a device used to focus xterms. %% A transistor protected by a fast-acting fuse will protect the fuse by blowing first. %% Hi! I'm a tagline virus! Steal me & join in the fun! %% All generalizations are false, including this one. %% All programmers are optimists. %% My other computer is a HAL 9000. %% The sigmonster ate my sig and all I got was this stupid tagline. %% The option to override self-destruct has expir&*%#NO CARRIER %% Murphy was an optimist. %% It ALWAYS goes wrong, especially if it's mission critical! %% If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate. %% Who stole my tagline? %% Here be dragons. %% } July, 2003: WHERE IN HELL DID FRESNO GET NUKES?!? -- TI Oracle, Internet Oracularities #1168 %% Huh? What do you mean the users still have files open?? %% I don't care! Reboot that server! I have work to do! %% The more I learn about the Internet, the more amazed I am that it works at all. %% Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from a perl script. %% My other sig is a 4000 line perl program. %% Warning: you are logged into reality as root. %% You are lost in a twisty maze of little standards, all different %% Did you know Linux stands for Linux Is Not UniX ? %% "Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway." -- Andrew Tanenbaum in _Computer Networks_ %% Variables won't, constants aren't. %% Moo! %% Press every key to continue. %% *** EVENT HORIZON * DO NOT CROSS *** EVENT HORIZON * DO NOT CROSS *** %% May the Source be with you! %% Send the black helicopters. %% ASCII Ribbon campaign against HTML Usenet posts and e-mail %% "...I'm doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won't be big and professional like gnu)... " -- Linus Torvalds, 1991 %% Do not underestimate the power of the command line. -- RB West, SDM %% Due to circumstances beyond our control, we regret to inform you that circumstances are beyond our control. --Paul Benoit %% Within five minutes, ReRob learned that walking through the basement of Fuller Labs wearing futuristic body armor and pushing a variable-geometry motorcycle raises eyebrows. Telling students that this is the true power of UNIX didn't help. -- Undocumented Features I. %% Due to a general lack of interest, Monday is cancelled. %% @a=split(q,,,qq,hgNbueCe nxe\nWf agr ryUpr\,,);for($i=015;;){if($i>=@a ){last};$_=$a[$i++].$a[$i-0xe];y;[A-Ma-mN-Zn-z];[N-Zn-zA-Ma-m];;print} %% @q=split(q??,qq?,JAPH \nacehklnorstubsqrfcnorkjpfdjpmfehi\ ljpag?);$i=0x13;while($i<=@q){print$q[ord($q[$i++])-0141]} %% A stitch in time would have confused Einstein. %% All generalizations are false, including this one. %% All programmers are optimists. %% Always proofread carefully to see if you any words out. %% Artificial intelligence is no match for natural stupidity. %% As easy as 3.14159265358979323846264338327950288419716 %% As I said before, I never repeat myself. %% As long as I can remember, I've had amnesia. %% ASCII stupid question... get a stupid ANSI! %% Back up my hard drive? I can't find the reverse switch! %% Best file compressor around: rm -rf / (100% compression!) %% Black holes were created when God divided by zero! %% If God is perfect, why do we have discontinuous functions? %% BREAKFAST.COM halted... cereal port not responding. %% But I forgot all about the Amnesia Conference!! %% Computer lie #1: you'll never use all that disk space. %% Computers are not intelligent. They only think they are. %% Corrupt REALITY.SYS: Reboot universe (y/n)? %% Dinner not ready...(A)bort (R)etry (P)izza %% Discoveries are made by not following instructions %% Do radioactive cats have 18 half-lives ? %% Don't use a big word where a diminutive one will suffice. %% Eschew obfuscation! %% He's not dead, Jim, he's just metabolically challenged. %% Help stamp out, eliminate and abolish redundancy! %% !TRC eht edisni deppart ma I !pleH %% I can't believe my computer's on fire. %% I didn't know it was impossible when I did it. %% I only counted 100 Dalmatians... %% I'm sure it's in the manual somewhere... %% If at first you don't succeed, call it v1.0! %% It works better when you turn the brightness up. %% It's Ensign Flintstone - he's Fred, Jim. %% It's worse than that, it's Physics, Jim! %% Johann Sebastian Schwarzenegger: I'll be Bach! %% Junk: stuff we throw away. Stuff: junk we keep. %% Keyboard not found - Press F1 to continue %% LOTUS - Let only the users suffer %% Luxuriantly hand-crafted from only the finest ASCII. %% My computer can beat your computer. %% My other computer is a HAL 9000. %% My other vehicle is a Galaxy class starship ... %% My reality check just bounced. %% Never park your hard disk in a tow-away zone. %% Never test for an error you don't know how to handle. %% Obi Wan Kenobi at the dinner table: 'Use the Forks, Luke!' %% Ok Scotty, now! detonate and energize! I mean....... %% Pound forehead on keyboard to continue. %% Press any key to continue or any other key to quit %% Program too small to fit into memory. %% Reality is for people who can't handle Star Trek. %% Reduce carbon dioxide emmissions - stop breathing %% Romulan warbird decloaking&*(^*)$#%^NO CARRIER %% S met ing's hap ening t my k ybo rd . . %% Scotty, hurry! beam me u1šæ#c(&NO CARRIER %% Sector not found (A)bort, (R)etry, (C)offee? %% Set laser printers to stun! %% Shell to DOS...come in, DOS...do you read...over? %% Shh! Be vewy quiet, I'm hunting wuntime errors! %% Shoot your program and put it out of its memory! %% Sorry... my mind has a few bad sectors. %% The lab called: your brain is ready %% The option to override self-destruct has expir$@#%$^*NO CARRIER %% The parity check is in the E-mail... %% The road to success is under construction... %% Thesaurus: ancient reptile with an excellent vocabulary. %% Could you continue your petty bickering ? I find it most intriguing. %% 'Press to test.' 'Release to detonate.' %% (A)bort, (R)etry, (W)hackitonthesideofthemonitor! %% 2 + 2 = 5 for extremely large values of 2. %% A feature is a bug with seniority. %% All wiyht. Rho sritched mg kegtops awound ? %% Backup not found: (A)bort (R)etry (P)anic %% Bones: He's dead Jim! Jim: No kidding !! %% But I thought you did the backups! %% Cap'n! Cap'n! the UART's will'nae take the speed! %% Captain, the mains are offline and I can't send Starfleet a message! %% Damn it Jim, I'm a doctor, not a SysOp. %% DOS never says excellent command or filename... %% Drop your carrier ... we have you surrounded! %% ebius tagline. This is a moebius tagline. This is a mo %% f u cn rd ths, u cn gt a gd jb n cmptr %% hAS aNYONE sEEN mY cAPSLOCK kEY ? %% He's dead Jim! You get his phaser, I got his wallet. %% How do I set my laser printer to stun? %% I haven't lost my mind; it's backed up on tape somewhere! %% If it wasn't for C, we would be using BASI, PASAL and OBOL! %% If you hold a hard drive to your ear, you can hear the C. %% If you prick me; do I not.... leak ? -Data %% RAM Disk is NOT an installation procedure %% Resistance is useless! (if < 1 ohm) %% Spock ? Why aren't you dead? %% Standards are wonderful! So many to pick from! %% The number one computer bug is mankind! %% Use DEVICE=EXXON to screw up your environment. %% User error: Please replace user and hit enter to continue %% WWhhaatt ddooeess hhaallff dduupplleexx mmeeaann?? %% Who is General Failure and why is he reading my drive ? %% Coffee not found: user halted %% If you are close enough to read this, you are also in phaser range %% ISDN: It Still Does Nothing %% Expert: Someone who is called in at the last minute to share the blame %% Etiquette: Knowing which finger to put in your mouth when you whistle for the waiter %% WWW: World Wide Wait %% OS/2: Obsolete Soon, Too %% MACINTOSH: Most Applications Crash, If Not, The Operating System Hangs %% DEC: Do Expect Cuts %% DOS: Defunct Operating System %% IBM: I Blame Microsoft %% SCSI: System Can't See it %% BASIC: Bill's Attempt to Seize Industry Control %% APPLE: Arrogance Produces Profit Losing Entity %% CD-ROM: Consumer Device, Rendered Obsolete in Months %% The server threw an exception. %% General protection fault at address 7896:000F. Press F15 to continue %% Murphy was an optimist. It ALWAYS goes wrong, especially if it's mission critical! %% "Please feel free to blither now." -- THHGTTG %% Disks travel in packs. (/usr/games/fortune) %% One man's "magic" is another man's engineering. "Supernatural" is a null word. -- Robert Heinlein %% "The Wedge went to immediate WeDon'tEvenHaveAColorForThis Alert." -- Undocumented Features I %% Memory fault -- core...uh...um...core... Oh, I forget! %% NO CARRIER %% To this day she declares that I told her one moving anecdote as to how a musket looked into my tent at the dead of night, and how I fired a double-barrelled tiger cub at it. --Watson, in "The Sign of the Four" %% Kernel panic: I have no root and I want to scream <--- perfect error message %% One man's constant is another man's variable. %% A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant. %% A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God. %% Think of it! With VLSI we can pack 100 ENIACs in 1 sq.cm. %% Within a computer natural language is unnatural. %% Once is chance, twice is coincidence, three times is enemy action. %% F^HSeeding the pseudorandom number generator for fun and profit^W^W. %% We are sorry, but the number you have dialed is imaginary. Please rotate your phone 90 degrees and try again. %% Fig Newton: The force required to accelerate a fig 39.37 inches/sec. %% One of the main causes of the fall of the Roman Empire was that, lacking zero, they had no way to indicate successful termination of their C programs. -- Robert Firth %% Close your eyes and press escape three times. %% Bad or missing mouse driver. Blame the cat? (Y/N) %% Never attribute to malloc what can be easily explained by stupidity. %% I am logged in, therefore I am. %% The fact that windows is one of the most popular ways to operate a computer means that evolution has made a general [ ]up and our race is doomed. %% "shutdown -halt now" - The final word in network security tools. %% To err is human...to really foul up requires the root password. %% "e, s, s, s, n, e, e, nw, get chest, se, n, d" - Sound familiar?????? %% VMS is a text-only adventure game. If you win you can use unix. %% "Mr. Worf, scan that ship." "Aye Captain. 300 dpi?" %% The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity - the rest is overhead for the operating system. %% One program's data is another program's metadata.