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- bobothn, on 10/12/2007, -4/+156Mirror of image
http://aycu04.webshots.com/image/14003/2002248011925102833_rs.jpg
Sorry for comment abuse - CapeKid, on 10/12/2007, -2/+96Doesn't beat the error message I got:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/64707463@N00/323516941/ - SurrealDream, on 10/12/2007, -4/+73I've been away from the internet for 4 days and a whole new sodding meme pops up...what's all this "Adobe® Photoshop® software" business about?
- abid786, on 10/12/2007, -2/+60@surrealdream (#6320153)
http://digg.com/tech_news/Adobe_The_Photoshop_trademark_must_never_be_used_as_a_verb - snuffulupagus, on 10/12/2007, -2/+45It's real - http://support.microsoft.com/kb/904849
- Eastlygod, on 10/12/2007, -1/+41It is real, I've had it too.
It reminds me of the old Smackdown games, where they had the following message...
[WARNING - Load Successful] - m00nb34m, on 10/12/2007, -0/+38I have a feeling that there's an Apple commercial waiting to be born from this.
- implied, on 10/12/2007, -0/+35It's real...
- ShadowVox, on 10/12/2007, -0/+29It could very well be real...when I was setting up the wife's laptop, I got this one:
http://muse.harleyroads.com/pictures/error.png
Not sure who wrote it, but I'm betting English wasn't his or her first language... - ImWatchingYou, on 10/12/2007, -0/+27This error is much older than Vista. It dates as far back as win98.
http://www.digibarn.com/collections/screenshots/Screenshots%20Funstuff/ErrorWin98.jpg - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+25You gotta love the Microsoft support explanation of a workaround:
WORKAROUND
Important These steps may increase your security risk. - MioTheGreat, on 10/12/2007, -7/+31That would be horribly hyprocritcal:
http://worsethanfailure.com/Articles/Apple,_Simple_and_Elegant.aspx - r00tus3r, on 10/12/2007, -5/+27Digg commenting is really starting to bug me. Come on guys, if people are bringing facts to the table, why are you digging them down, just because you don't like how they said it, or aren't pleased because what they said is true? Come on man, give the site some credibility, and quit being such lousy diggers.
- Namco, on 10/12/2007, -7/+25That's funny, it looks just like a Firefox "unable to connect" error message! Crazy stuff !!!
- iamafatguy, on 10/12/2007, -4/+22[deleted cause I don't know where I'm posting]
- tkstock, on 10/12/2007, -5/+19There is a patch for all the Vista errors here:
http://www.ubuntu.com - MioTheGreat, on 10/12/2007, -1/+13It's just what happens when a developer is too lazy to check to see if something returned ERROR_SUCCESS.
- noahhoward, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11In all fairness that is most likely an application error, not a windows error.
Although I wouldn't put it past the masterminds behind "Fatal Error" - pathy, on 10/12/2007, -2/+11Sounds like you had a faulty PSU.
- mrfunkeye, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9Some time ago I had an error while installing MS-Office: "Please insert [unknown] to continue the installation"
After failing to install several times and googling like hell I found out what the trouble was: the CD-ROM drive was spinning too fast - natenovs, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9I also got one when I was installing Win95 that said "To Many Errors" instead of "Too Many Errors". That made me laugh...
- tkstock, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7My personal favorite is "Unspecified Error". Does kinda make it difficult to debug!!
- ghostlywind, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8My favorite will be mine, sometimes when i shut down xp i would get an end task box saying Should Not See Me.
- nunofgs, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8Sure.
http://content.answers.com/main/content/wp/en/6/6a/Mirror.jpeg - jmp478, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7My friend got an error message once. "Error- Cannot find 4" And then he got a message a minute later with the message "4".
- markdr123, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8There is not enough disk space to delete that file.
Please delete more files, and try again.
That was real in XP. - h3ndrix, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Now thats "Think Different"
- Retrospekt, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Could a server go down any quicker than this one? wow
- Falken, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5I still believe that Adobe CS2 for Macintosh takes the prize for error* messages:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/kk/206835799/
"The Adobe Updater must update itself before it can check for updates. Would you like to update the Adobe Updater now?"
*Ok, so its not an error message per se, but it's still funny. - daybreaker, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Reminds me of when Counterstrike crashed on me once, and gave me the error box: "No error encountered".
Thanks Counterstrike! Can I get back to my game now? - tkstock, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5You know, that's the kinda ***** you can keep to yourself.
- Masterrer, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5Picture plz
- Jugalator, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4The boring reason for these is that error code 0 is usually defined as a success in computer software, and sometimes a bug can cause it to not take that into account, but simply report anything that it had returned. It could also be a mixup in error texts vs error codes.
Funny enough, they do happen quite often too. :-) I had one in Outlook once.
Something about the server failed to respond because something reported a success. :-s - trogdoor, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Congratulations!
Do you want a cookie? - DoubleMike, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3@ffizzz: DON'T TAKE THE COOKIE!!
- digrboi, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3are'nt you contradicting yourself in the second sentence??
- meechwings, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I used to get this error from some simulation software after the simulation was done:
ERROR: Simulation successful (not an error). - biggbrother, on 10/12/2007, -5/+7Now I know why I haven't been using Vista...
- bobpaul, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Example: If you have 2 bits to represent error codes you can count to 3 (00, 01, 10, 11). What happens if you add 1 to 3? You get 4 (100). Unfortunately, we only have 2 bits so the 1 is lost and it rolls over to 0 (00).
If it was 1 number higher than the highest possible error, it would be no error. So, either there's always an error message on success, or there never is. Anything else requires some other explanation. - guttertrash, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3its REAL. I had this error when trying to install tv tuner card drivers that were designed for windows xps WDM implementation. It was on rc2. My freinds and i previously discussed it and we came to the conclusion that it was an return that was one number than their highest error code, and cycled over to "the operation completed succesfully" perhaps?
- jawbreaker4fs, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2It's probably a message box meant for debugging that some programmer just neglected to remove. I put stuff like this in my code all the time when I'm testing.
- kheldorin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2erm...that's probably some sort of a virus. Probably a rootkit. You should do a scan.
- MioTheGreat, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2No. ERROR_SUCCESS is a real error code. It's what is typically returned by a number of APIs when something actually works, and nothing is wrong.
- dralezero, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2It's like when installing a game it pops up. "Your key is valid." At first your like DOH!, then your like oh..."
- hirak99, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Well, if the operation completed successfully, in Windows Vista, it's indeed an error.
- AstralSin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1i've seen this in worldcraft in winxp too http://i45.photobucket.com/albums/f51/AstralSin/windows_error.jpg
- gcnaddict, on 10/12/2007, -32/+33"It's real - http://support.microsoft.com/kb/904849"
Your link relates to BizTalk. The image here is fake because it doesn't follow the new MsgBox GUI. The new MsgBox API doesn't allow for error messages to be formatted like that. - alexeiz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1OK, guys. For those of you who think that this error message is a case of really sloppy programming, I can assure you, it's not. It's the GetLastError model. It begs you for such kinds of mistakes. Here is a simple example of code that produces this error message:
CreateFile(...); // assume it fails, error code can be retrieved with GetLastError()
wchar_t * buf = new wchar_t[buf_len]; // alloc the memory for the error message
// oops! the operator new() called some Win32 function (LocalAlloc) and cleared the last error code!
FormatMessage(..., GetLastError(), ...); // now GetLastError is useless, it returns ERROR_SUCCESS
// and FormatMessage gives you the following description of the error: The operation compeleted successfully. Voila!
It's an innocent mistake. Fortunately once bitten you start to understand the importance of calling GetLastError immediately after a failed Win32 call. - BOFH139, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2It's real, I see in the log's of Windows Server 2003 ALL the time.....
- robertallen, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Funny thing, the Windows Vista Error message looks exactly like my Firefox error message when I can't load a web page.
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