To LUGNET HomepageTo LUGNET News HomepageTo LUGNET Guide Homepage
 Help on Searching
 
Post new message to lugnet.off-topic.funOpen lugnet.off-topic.fun in your NNTP NewsreaderTo LUGNET News Traffic PageSign In (Members)
 Off-Topic / Fun / 9904
9903  |  9905
Subject: 
Re: Dr. Seuss Explains Why Computers Sometimes Crash
Newsgroups: 
lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.off-topic.geek
Date: 
Sun, 3 Nov 2002 17:29:03 GMT
Viewed: 
753 times
  
In lugnet.off-topic.fun, Tim Courtney writes:
Dr. Seuss Explains Why Computers Sometimes Crash

(Read this aloud, if you can!)

If a packet hits a pocket on a socket on a port,
and the bus is interrupted at a very last resort, and

(snipped)

and you'll want to RAM your ROM.
Quickly turn off the computer and be sure to
tell your Mom!

remindes me of some lines in a computer manual

...when you computer gives an error, it's because:
    the stack can dip into the heap for just a few cycles and not be caught
    by the stack sniffer

and this is real :-(

Very funny Tim!

Jeroen



Message is in Reply To:
  Dr. Seuss Explains Why Computers Sometimes Crash
 
Dr. Seuss Explains Why Computers Sometimes Crash (Read this aloud, if you can!) If a packet hits a pocket on a socket on a port, and the bus is interrupted at a very last resort, and the access of the memory makes your floppy disk abort, then the (...) (22 years ago, 3-Nov-02, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.off-topic.geek)

10 Messages in This Thread:





Entire Thread on One Page:
Nested:  All | Brief | Compact | Dots
Linear:  All | Brief | Compact
    

Custom Search

©2005 LUGNET. All rights reserved. - hosted by steinbruch.info GbR