On Fri, 2003-11-14 at 17:23, Telsa Gwynne wrote: > I'm sorry to post such a silly message. Not sorry enough to hit > 'cancel', though. This just has to be said... > > On Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 05:11:01PM +0000 or thereabouts, Andrew Sobala wrote: > > Another alternative: > > > > The "$APPNAME" application has crashed. If you tell us about this crash, > > you will be helping us improve our software." > > > > [ Exit application ] [ Report the crash] > > > > Unfortunately, this and Luis' suggestions have this inexplicable "us" in > > the dialog. Who is us? The little green men inside the computer making > > it go? > > You don't know? > > Years ago, we borrowed "the Unix manual" from a friend who had > printed out every last page of it. I forget which Unix version > it was, but I shall never forget the footnote which explained > why there was a limit to the keyboard buffer. > > It said there was a little gnome which collected the letters > you typed in at the keyboard and took them to (erm, not sure here) > the computer or the kernel or something. And that the gnome > could only carry a certain number of letters in its hands at > once, and would drop any extra on the floor. > > So it's not little green men. It's gnomes. I thought anyone > using this desktop would know that. Oh, I'm sorry. I've been misinformed. When I was about 9 my teacher told us that electricity was little green men running round the wires with energy packs on their backs. They get tired when they run up the hill in a resistor, they let out the energy when they go through a light bulb, and so on. I didn't fully believe him at the time, but now I know it's gnomes it all makes sense. Cheers, -- Andrew Sobala <as583 cam ac uk> Given by our hand in the meadow that is called Runnymede, between Windsor and Staines, on the fifteenth day of June in the seventeenth year of our reign.
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