Daniel H ([personal profile] daniel_h) wrote in [community profile] belltower 2015-02-12 05:57 am (UTC)

Re: Jane Error Messages

For an example of what I’m asking, Jarvis said that “cannot reticulate splines” is a reference to a video game where one of the loading messages was “reticulating splines”; presumably if reticulating splines is impossible, then at some point something will go wrong. I am unsure what if anything it has to do with being error code 559, though, or with this being the Sunshine world. Similarly “out of memory, all alone in the moonlight” is a play on “out of memory” computer errors and the song Memory, but bears no obvious relation to the number 909.

On the other hand, “error code 99: bottles of beer on the wall” is an obvious reference to the song, with the error code number and explanation making sense together, but doesn’t have an obvious reason of being a computer error.

So, my questions are, for each world above with their given error code and error message:

  1. Does the error code number have a relevant meaning, like 112358 does as a Fibonacci reference?
  2. Does the error message have a relevant meaning, like “cannot reticulate splines” or “problem exists between chair and keyboard” does as a type of joking error. If so, what?
  3. Does the combination of code and message have a relevant meaning, like “error 99: bottles of beer on the wall” being a song reference? If so, what?
  4. What relation, if any, do the above meanings have to computer errors


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