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Date:      Fri, 7 Aug 1998 09:43:34 +0930
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To:        John Birrell <jb@cimlogic.com.au>
Cc:        Ruslan@Shevchenko.Kiev.UA, lva@dds.nl, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: What's your excuse? (humour)
Message-ID:  <19980807094334.Q9620@freebie.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <199808070015.KAA02444@cimlogic.com.au>; from John Birrell on Fri, Aug 07, 1998 at 10:15:58AM %2B1000
References:  <19980807093318.N9620@freebie.lemis.com> <199808070015.KAA02444@cimlogic.com.au>

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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
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