Good programmer = Sense of humor + Programming skills

I was trying to setup a debug machine today. My setup required a specific version of BIOS; I booted in to DOS and tried flashing the new version. The flash went on well and during the verification phase, the tool found couple of invalid regions. It automatically tried erasing/flashing again. I was impressed; “Good. The programmer is smart enough to implement this auto-retry option, else It’d have taken ages to find out this data region corruption”, I thought and was silently thanking that programmer. It was premature, immediately the tool stopped and showed me the following screen.

[Snapshot: Tool output]

[Close up of the message]

The tool very helpfully said “Your platform is dead & have a nice day!”. “Have a nice day”??? Though, now I need to take the flash, go to the lab and program it using a flash programmer, I couldn’t help laughing at this cheeky message!