From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Aug 6 17:15:37 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA12567 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Thu, 6 Aug 1998 17:15:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA12402 for ; Thu, 6 Aug 1998 17:14:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id JAA26541; Fri, 7 Aug 1998 09:43:46 +0930 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) id JAA11929; Fri, 7 Aug 1998 09:43:35 +0930 (CST) Message-ID: <19980807094334.Q9620@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Fri, 7 Aug 1998 09:43:34 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: John Birrell Cc: Ruslan@Shevchenko.Kiev.UA, lva@dds.nl, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What's your excuse? (humour) References: <19980807093318.N9620@freebie.lemis.com> <199808070015.KAA02444@cimlogic.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: <199808070015.KAA02444@cimlogic.com.au>; from John Birrell on Fri, Aug 07, 1998 at 10:15:58AM +1000 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Friday, 7 August 1998 at 10:15:58 +1000, John Birrell wrote: > Greg Lehey wrote: >>> Interesting, than during reading this message I receive GPF. >> >> You guys keep coming up with things I don't know about. > > That's a Guaranteed Product Failure. 8-) This tends to cause many other > excuses to be used. The most common ones being: reboot, reinstall, your > computer is not compatible, etc. When occurring in the kernel the message > is automatically translated into a more meaningful one - the screen goes > blue. This is Microsoft's way of telling you you're having a _really_ bad > day, or in the case of a server, that someone was doing something really > important and now they're having a _really_ bad day. Ah. Now I see the reverence. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message