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Chris got this error while playing around with Xcode. Though he could prove to the contrary, he was given no choice other than to agree.
"If there was only an option between 5 hours and 136.102 years this would be perfect!" writes Alan.
Dan got confused when trying to get the KBB value of his girlfriend's car. He couldn't find anywhere on the vehicle which accessory package number she had.
"I know the phone companies like to lock us into long contracts," remarks Neil, "but now they're billing me for my calls five years in the future!"
Steve D. wonders, "Who on earth stores phone numbers in a numeric field?"
"I had an error trying to download an ISO from Microsoft's TechNet," writes Chris, "Something tells me that phone number won't reach the MSDN helpdesk."
This one arrived anonymously. One would think that the submitter's name would be at the bottom of the receipt, but well...
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The "You don't exist" message is presumably from git, which had this cute message in pre-v1.7.11 when getpwuid(getuid()) fails. In which case it would be fair to conclude that your current user does indeed not exist....
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"You Don't Exist. Go Away!" is much older than that, login command from linux's sysutils package require syslog and some other logs up and running in order to manage user's logins. That message usually appeared when you tried to logout.
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Re: You Don't Exist. Go Away!
2012-08-10 08:45
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Remy Porter
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I used to train programmers, and my first lesson was: "I don't care what you call it- if you aren't going to use it in mathematical expressions, it isn't a number. PINs, phone numbers, zip codes, SSNs, etc.- they are all text."
And then people would go and hand me programs that treated each one of them as an integer. |
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