Haiku Error Messages


Imagine if your computer produced error messages in Haiku:

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     Serious error.
     All shortcuts have disappeared.
     Screen. Mind. Both are blank.
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     Stay the patient course
     Of little worth is your ire
     The network is down
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     A crash reduces
     your expensive computer
     to a simple stone.
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     A file that big?
     It might be very useful.
     But now it is gone.
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     Chaos reigns within.
     Reflect, repent, and reboot.
     Order shall return.
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     Wind catches lily
     scatt'ring petals to the wind:
     segmentation fault
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     ABORTED effort:
     Close all that you have.
     You ask way too much.
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     First snow, then silence.
     This thousand dollar screen dies
     so beautifully.
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     With searching comes loss
     and the presence of absence:
     "My Novel" not found.
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     The Tao that is seen
     Is not the true Tao, until
     You bring fresh toner.
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     The Web site you seek
     cannot be located but
     endless others exist
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     Yesterday it worked
     Today it is not working
     Windows is like that
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     To have no errors
     Would be life without meaning
     No struggle, no joy
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     You step in the stream,
     but the water has moved on.
     This page is not here.
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     Out of memory.
     We wish to hold the whole sky,
     But we never will.
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     Those who know do not speak.
     Those who speak do not know.
     Your CMOS is corrupted.
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**Perhaps on our next project we could suggest that developers incorporate error messages such as these into their system.**