The worst error message in history belongs to... BIND9!

Jeffrey Goldberg jeffrey at goldmark.org
Wed Jun 6 00:30:29 UTC 2007


On Jun 5, 2007, at 4:39 PM, Eduardo Morras wrote:

> At 14:38 31/05/2007, Robert Huff wrote:
>
>> =?iso-8859-1?Q?Kyrre_Nyg=E5rd?= writes:
>>
>> >  It has to be the worst written error message in history.
>>
>>         Not even close.  I commend to you the Amiga's BSOD:
>>
>>                                           Software Guru
>>                                         Meditation Number
>>                            <very long string of hex digits>
>
> And the " Need 0KB more memory to manage memory " from MacOS system7?

I still remember as a newcomer to  Unix a long long time ago getting

   "Bad magic number"

In retrospect, I suspect that I'd typed "ld" where I'd meant to type  
"ls".

-j

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