Zen and Art of PC Operating System

[Guest guest]

Someone just sent me this and it is most refreshing. I cannot wait to get

my hands on this- a PC operating system that gives me the bad news in a way

I can handle...

> Sony has announced its own computer operating system now available on

> its hot new portable PC called the Vaio. Instead of producing the

> cryptic

> error messages characteristic of Microsoft's Windows 95, 3.1, and DOS

> operating systems, Sony's chairman Asai Tawara said, " We intend to

> capture the high ground by putting a human, Japanese face on what has

> been -

> until now -an operating system that reflects Western cultural

> hegemony. For

> example, we have replaced the impersonal and unhelpful Microsoft error

> messages with our own Japanese haiku poetry. "

>

> The chairman went on to give examples of Sony's new error messages:

>

> A file that big?

> It might be very useful.

> But now it is gone.

>

> - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

>

> The Web site you seek

> cannot be located but

> countless more exist

>

> - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

>

> Chaos reigns within.

> Reflect, repent, and reboot.

> Order shall return.

>

> - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

>

> ABORTED effort:

> Close all that you have worked on.

> You ask way too much.

>

> - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

>

> Yesterday it worked

> Today it is not working

> Windows is like that.

>

> - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

>

> First snow, then silence.

> This thousand dollar screen

> dies so beautifully.

>

> - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

>

> With searching comes loss

> and the presence of absence:

> " My Novel " not found.

>

> - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

>

> The Tao that is seen

> Is not the true Tao,

> until You bring fresh toner.

>

> - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

>

> Windows NT crashed.

> I am the Blue Screen of Death.

> No one hears your screams.

>

> - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

>

>

> Stay the patient course

> Of little worth is your ire

> The network is down

>

> - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

>

> A crash reduces

> your expensive computer

> to a simple stone.

>

> - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

>

> Three things are certain:

> Death, taxes, and lost data.

> Guess which has occurred.

>

> - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

>

> You step in the stream,

> but the water has moved on.

> This page is not here.

>

> - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

>

> Out of memory.

> We wish to hold the whole sky,

> But we never will.

>

> - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

>

> Having been erased,

> The document you're seeking

> Must now be retyped.

>

> - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

>

> Serious error.

> All shortcuts have disappeared.

> Screen. Mind. Both are blank.

>

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Joe Berenbaum

Joe Berenbaum

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