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According to the Top 7, we need to select a 404 image - an image that will be displayed when users try to bring up a page that does not exist.

Please quote the source so the team can negotiate rights if necessary.

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we could create a black image showing the error message in kernelpanic-flavor.

like http://orionida.files.wordpress.com/2008/02/kernel-panic.jpg but with some other data and errors (404 should be shown somewhere)

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Save on bandwidth... we could just do this in html... and it'd still be funny – xenoterracide♦ Sep 17 '10 at 5:01
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We couldn't find the page you were looking for...

Looks like Tux tried the rm -rf / command again. We really need to take that computer away from him.

Tux gets carried away.

Source: linux.org.uk.

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Too much Linux, not enough Unix. – gvkv Sep 14 '10 at 19:33
@gvkv: Look closer at the picture... there's Unix stuff there :) – George Edison Sep 24 '10 at 4:21
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Too much Pepsi, not enough Coke. – RegDwight Dec 30 '10 at 14:43
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It's not complete(as in, 25 rows of text) but maybe this is a start? 

 [<c0292932>] __get_page+0xe2/0x1d2
 [<c0120423>] search_disk+0xe9/0x19d
 [<c09283d2>] search_backup_disk+0xf1/0x21
 [<c0e29fa1>] search_frantically+0x12/0xe12
 [<c0021df0>] __wait_on_server_magic+0x48/0x9
Warning: server_magic timeout reached!
 [<c0f2359d>] get_error_page+0x2/0xd34
 [<c0d34a9d>] __alert_code_monkeys+0x03/0xe9d
Warning: code_monkeys not responding to messages
 [<c0a92d92>] __render_error_page+0x0/0x404
 [<c02a94da>] render_404_error_page+0x0/0x0
Server panic - Aiee, your file was not found!

I made it community wiki, so edit this to be more complete, then just put it on your favorite terminal and screen shot it (or if you want to be really awesome, recompile linux and put in these functions and make the linux kernel actually say this, and then screen shot it)

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Hmmm... a great idea for sure... I'm not very good at writing kernel modules, though. – George Edison Dec 20 '10 at 6:42
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Xeno found an image that I think could be a decent 404 picture, although we probably need to add text somewhere:

Proposed 404 image

We've got a couple other versions here and here

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I like the version here: i.imgur.com/uVOQS.png I think it makes no sense to include the java mascot Duke here ;-) – echox Sep 12 '10 at 23:34
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@echox Yeah, I like that one the most too, although the editing was rather poor and should probably be redone if we actually use this for something – Michael Mrozek♦ Sep 12 '10 at 23:58
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up vote 2 down vote 
cat: /foo/bar: No such file or directory

Maybe not cat, but how about GET:

HTTP GET: http://unix.stackexchange.com/foo/bar: No such file or directory

(Does it really have to be an image?)

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up vote 2 down vote

useless use of cat

(from GirlieMac's HTTP Status Cats)

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