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Who dugg this? Made popular Mar 25, 2008

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  • metalbabble, on 03/25/2008, -8/+645a comment that should never have been posted has been posted
  • Emused, on 03/25/2008, -6/+578"An Error Dump Dumping Error Has Occurred"
    and in Vista "An Error Dump Dumping Error Has Occurred, Do You Wish to Dump This Error?"
  • TexasCanuck, on 03/25/2008, -12/+514My favorite is "Error: The operation complete successfully"

    Only Microsoft...
  • Sucka27, on 03/25/2008, -5/+453Even better is the MSDN description of the error:
    A system call that should never fail has failed. This is a generic error code, returned under various conditions.

  • DeskFlyer, on 03/25/2008, -16/+380Looks like someone divided by zero.
  • imabot, on 03/25/2008, -11/+372there goes that dude's porn..
  • jemka, on 03/25/2008, -7/+283That's a fun looking desktop. I wonder what that guy does for a living.
  • mwyres, on 03/25/2008, -5/+242My personal all time favourite was on a Sun Xterm about 15 years ago..."Error: An error did not occur"...

    Gold...
  • akkibaba, on 03/25/2008, -4/+237I have read this comment, and have formed an opinion about it.
  • Beson669, on 03/25/2008, -9/+168He should report the problem to Microsoft!
    ...
  • toconnor, on 03/25/2008, -1/+110No worries. I'm sure clicking the Dell Support icon in the taskbar will fix everything.
  • Fatcheeseguy, on 03/25/2008, -4/+110What's that Dell tray icon doing there.......?
    That's probably your problem.
  • luke16, on 03/25/2008, -0/+106a dude called ruth?
  • MrSketch, on 03/25/2008, -3/+100Photoshops error messages.
  • DErallde, on 03/25/2008, -24/+119Epic Fail?
  • SpikeX, on 03/25/2008, -14/+109The really sad thing is that it's really easy to produce your own message boxes with literally a single line of code in most .NET languages, so I really don't find these funny anymore, virtually anyone can create them.
  • scarz99, on 03/25/2008, -1/+75Error: Windows Error Reporting Service Has Stopped Working. Would You Like To Report This Error To Microsoft? (Y/N)?
  • kansoki, on 03/25/2008, -1/+75it's real though:
    http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms740668( ...
  • Wonderama, on 03/25/2008, -2/+75Be that as it may, it is what it is.
  • drouk1556, on 03/25/2008, -1/+65Rutherford.
  • isiah1, on 03/25/2008, -5/+68IS THAT A LEGIT COPY OF QUICKBOOKS?
  • norman619, on 03/25/2008, -6/+69It's a Dell from the look of it.
  • MrZaiko, on 03/25/2008, -1/+61Yea, that always helps
  • Grova, on 03/25/2008, -11/+69It's a trap!
  • lordthor, on 03/25/2008, -5/+56*snort* yeah haha women can't computer good *gigglesnort*
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  • Tunguska, on 03/25/2008, -8/+57Luke: "I don't believe it!"
  • turner050, on 03/25/2008, -1/+48Well at least it's not an illegal operation.
  • luke16, on 03/25/2008, -1/+41i don't believe it!
  • norman619, on 03/25/2008, -0/+34The icon in the system tray. Yup. I guess some diggers thought my comment was a slam on Dell.
  • lukas88, on 03/25/2008, -1/+35i don't believe it!
  • FTLJohnson, on 03/25/2008, -0/+34I don't know why you are being buried, that was my first thought too... "Maybe he works for Dell". That stupid little dell help thing is there
  • bulkhater, on 03/25/2008, -4/+38Yeah, because us Mac users just get that damn "spinning beach ball" THAT NEVER TELLS US ANYTHING. That's so much better.
  • hendriks, on 03/25/2008, -0/+34When I try to get my Sony Vaio laptop into hibernation, windows sometimes gives me a "Not enough resources to finish the API" error and refuses to shut down. WTF, you would think MS would have enough funds to hire a couple of guys to finish the API, not?
  • Fatcheeseguy, on 03/25/2008, -2/+35Great work detective. I can now go back to sleep safely.
  • Pilot85, on 03/25/2008, -4/+36All I know is, my heart says maybe.
  • derjames, on 03/25/2008, -0/+31yeah... we know... the 'uuiU' ending....
  • dpdesign, on 03/26/2008, -2/+33I enjoyed your opinion, and wish to subscribe to your newsletter.
  • Danktolker, on 03/25/2008, -3/+34them damn racists thinking they're smarter than everyone else again...
  • smoothmedia, on 03/25/2008, -4/+35You're right, the mac program would have just exited without making any attempt to explain the error.
  • Kemosavi, on 03/25/2008, -4/+34Believe it or not, you piece of *****, you're still gonna burn!
  • lostarchitect, on 03/25/2008, -3/+30probably works for some company that doesn't let you change anything on your system.
  • mortigon, on 03/25/2008, -1/+28I'M GETTIN FUDGIN LAID BIATCHZ
  • licoricewhip, on 03/25/2008, -3/+30Pretty much nothing happens on a Mac.
  • relaxeder, on 04/17/2009, -3/+29HABEEB IT
  • astrotrain, on 03/25/2008, -5/+30True... the errors would be more graphic... such as the dead mac on its side...
  • djekz, on 03/25/2008, -0/+25So will the 2 hour phone call to "John" (Akhilesh) in "Denver" (Bombay)
  • inactive, on 03/25/2008, -5/+28This is what happens when you write your software assuming the user has admin priv.
  • senorcool, on 03/25/2008, -8/+31silly computers
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