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"Linux Gazette...<I>making Linux just a little more fun!</I>"
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<H1><font color="maroon">Linux Humor</font></H1>
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<H4>By <a href="mailto:gazette@ssc.com">Mike Orr</a></H4>
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<P> A co-worker brought to my attention this little link:
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<A HREF=http://www.cs.monash.edu.au/~damian/TPC/1999/Coy/>
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Coy: Like Carp, Only Prettier</A>. It's a Perl module described
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by its author, Damian Conway, thusly:
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When a program dies
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what you need is a moment
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of serenity.
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The Coy.pm
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module brings tranquillity
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to your debugging.
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The module alters
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the behaviour of die and
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warn (and croak and carp).
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Like Carp.pm,
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Coy reports errors from the
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caller's point-of-view.
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But it prefaces
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the bad news of failure with
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a soothing haiku.
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<P> Not a bad idea.
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<P> Wait, it gets better. The
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<A HREF=http://www.cs.monash.edu.au/~damian/TPC/1999/Coy/Paper.html>
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description of the haiku generator algorithm</A> is itself written in haiku.
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<P> The paper cites
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<A HREF=http://www.salonmagazine.com/21st/chal/1998/02/10chal2.html>
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a Salon Magazine contest</A> for haiku error messages. These are my favorite
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entries, although all of them are worth a read:
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A file that big?
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It might be very useful.
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But now it is gone.
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-- David J. Liszewski
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Printer not ready.
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Could be a fatal error.
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Have a pen handy?
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-- Pat Davis
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The Web site you seek
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cannot be located but
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endless others exist
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-- Joy Rothke
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Windows NT crashed.
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I am the Blue Screen of Death.
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No one hears your screams.
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-- Peter Rothman
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<P> All this got me thinking: does anybody have any Linux poetry they'd
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like to share? Not necessarily haiku--any kind of poetry. There are lots of
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geeky UNIX things floating about, but nothing specifically Linux-related.
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(Or is my memory getting dim?) Maybe someday I'll try writing a Linux sonnet.
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<P> P.S. Another co-worker sent me a link to a
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<A HREF=http://www.asciimation.co.nz/>
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Star Wars move done in ASCII animation (asciimation)</A>. It requires Java.
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Copyright © 1999, Mike Orr<BR>
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Published in Issue 46 of <i>Linux Gazette</i>, October 1999</H5>
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