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Old 29-04-2008, 14:48   #1
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Humour for Linux geeks...

Thought Microsoft's fabled "Keyboard is not present; please press F1 to continue" was stupid, look at this beauty I got earlier:

Quote:
"The program apt-get is not currently installed. You can install it by typing: sudo apt-get install apt"
Well, I laughed

Someone else has had the error (under the same circumstances) here.
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Old 29-04-2008, 14:58   #2
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Re: Humour for Linux geeks...

Well what can I say.... looks like MS isn't alone in producing software that can make their coders look stupid lol
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Re: Humour for Linux geeks...

Just someone trying to be clever and trapping the normal command not found type error to make it "user friendly".

A simple "Command not found" would surfice. Program may not be in path or path is incorrect.

Not really a patch on the M$ error.
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Re: Humour for Linux geeks...

I remember my early unix days, can't remember the program, may even have been Pine, but it came up with something like:

Error 36
Bob, we really need to come up with a description for this error.
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Re: Humour for Linux geeks...

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