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  • Emused, on 03/25/2008, -6/+572"An Error Dump Dumping Error Has Occurred"
    and in Vista "An Error Dump Dumping Error Has Occurred, Do You Wish to Dump This Error?"
    • jemka, on 03/25/2008, -7/+280That's a fun looking desktop. I wonder what that guy does for a living.
      • norman619, on 03/25/2008, -6/+68It's a Dell from the look of 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
          • norman619, on 03/25/2008, -0/+33The icon in the system tray. Yup. I guess some diggers thought my comment was a slam on Dell.
          • Verdanic, on 03/26/2008, -0/+8I hate that I recognized that icon instantly.
        • astrosmash, on 03/25/2008, -12/+5Totally, man! Dell sucks.
        • nmnnotmyname, on 03/26/2008, -5/+1Dell, does in fact suck. Sorry. Actually no, not sorry.
      • lostarchitect, on 03/25/2008, -3/+29probably works for some company that doesn't let you change anything on your system.
      • MrSketch, on 03/25/2008, -3/+97Photoshops error messages.
      • diggduggjoe, on 03/25/2008, -1/+6It looks like a fresh load and he is putting back some files for Quick Books. Seems reasonable to me that the desktop would not be filled in that case.
        • Jookly, on 03/25/2008, -1/+3except that it has the logmein.com client running. It isn't a fresh install.... unless he is into nLite, which would be cool.
        • csfreakazoid, on 03/26/2008, -0/+9Except that his name is Ruth, so he is probably a she
        • nmnnotmyname, on 03/26/2008, -0/+1Whoever submitted this is male, however. It could be from another person, though, or on someone else's computer.
      • PawFox, on 03/25/2008, -0/+5Look's more like a remote desktop of some sort.
      • Navicerts, on 03/25/2008, -0/+2or hes logged on under an admin account on someone else machine.
      • Capachino08, on 03/26/2008, -1/+3I bet his favorite color is blue
      • SlimFastForYou, on 03/26/2008, -0/+2Same thing all the other guys named Ruth do for a living?
    • chrispags526, on 03/25/2008, -7/+24the error occured while "Ruth" is copying a quickbooks file. Enough said
      • lordthor, on 03/25/2008, -5/+55*snort* yeah haha women can't computer good *gigglesnort*
        • jpaolini, on 03/25/2008, -0/+11Hahaha, that cracked me up. Now people are looking at me all funny, thanks! :-P
        • Navicerts, on 03/25/2008, -0/+5good lord man that's he first time i lol'ed at something in months.
        • xyqxyq, on 03/26/2008, -0/+3I read his comment and thought of old people (since the name Ruth was a lot more common 60+ years ago), not of women.
        • celkin, on 03/26/2008, -0/+3Who wants to bet that's the first Digg comment ever to include the word "gigglesnort" ?
      • Xanadude, on 03/26/2008, -10/+2Misogyny on Digg, what a surprise. Standby for more "Hillary's a bitch" comments in 5... 4... 3...
        • dudetaz2003, on 03/26/2008, -1/+62... 1...
          "Hillary's a bitch"
          /so ^ does not feel so bad
        • darkphenox, on 03/26/2008, -1/+1BTW people don't call Hillary a bitch because shes a women.
          • Fordi, on 03/26/2008, -1/+2Hllary's a bitch because she's a conniving, scheming liar lacking scruples of any sort.
        • MyExSucks, on 03/26/2008, -0/+2Hillary's a bitch because she's a woman
      • nmnnotmyname, on 03/26/2008, -1/+2Okay, I have to admit I laughed...
    • SpikeX, on 03/25/2008, -14/+106The 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.
      • kansoki, on 03/25/2008, -1/+73it's real though:
        http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms740668( ...
        • joebaloney, on 03/25/2008, -0/+12Search for WSASYSCALLFAILURE on the page given by kansoki
          • xyqxyq, on 03/26/2008, -0/+2...why not search for some of the text in the error message?
        • undyboy91, on 03/25/2008, -0/+15System call failure.
          A system call that should never fail has failed. This is a generic error code, returned under various conditions.
          Returned when a system call that should never fail does fail. For example, if a call to WaitForMultipleEvents fails or one of the registry functions fails trying to manipulate the protocol/namespace catalogs.
          Returned when a provider does not return SUCCESS and does not provide an extended error code. Can indicate a service provider implementation error.
          • Cerebral, on 03/25/2008, -9/+6Just another reason why people hate Microsoft/Windows. Anyone who were to get this error while trying to copy the files that would look this up would say "WTF does this mean?" "What do I do now?"
          • Memitim, on 03/26/2008, -1/+6I would imagine that the vast majority of Windows users never see that error since it happens so rarely. Hell, I've been in IT for years and have never actually seen it happen. Admittedly, I have seen a LOT of Windows errors, but not that one. :)
          • ZippyV, on 03/26/2008, -0/+1Probably because another application (like a virusscanner) was overriding kernel functions.
      • hello2usir, on 03/25/2008, -0/+11Why mention just .NET?
        The function you speak of is called MessageBox, and it is exported right from user32.dll, which is a core windows library.
        Its sole purpose is to display quick messages and receive basic user feedback, while hiding all the dirty work of creating controls.
        It's been around forever, since the very early days of Windows, well before .NET, and most if not all WinAPI-ready languages have it.
        Hell you can call it from MASM with a single Invoke.
      • nmnnotmyname, on 03/26/2008, -9/+3.NET sucks, 1, you might as well use the C language.
        2. That's a real message, Do your research.
        • Murdats, on 03/26/2008, -1/+1C? real men use assembly.
          • nmnnotmyname, on 03/26/2008, -2/+3For ***** sake, did people actually Digg my post down because i said C instead of assembly? Assembly is not easy enough. I know only a single person who can do assembly, but many who can do C and C++.
          • paaaaaaaaaa, on 03/26/2008, -3/+3No. People dugg you down because .net does not suck.
          • nmnnotmyname, on 03/26/2008, -4/+1Oh yes it does. It sucks bad. Beyond all suck. If you use .NET for full applications, or even slightly-bigger-than-tiny applications, your annoying us. Please kill yourself.
          • Murdats, on 03/26/2008, -0/+3who is us?
            I was saying that C sucks and that you should use assembly. me myself, I am a very manly man and I use a morse code tapper to directly write the binary data to disk to create the programs I want.
          • allyant, on 03/26/2008, -0/+2...... STFU both of use.
    • Spuy767, on 03/25/2008, -14/+5Windows error messages are getting more and more abstract.
    • deadbaby, on 03/25/2008, -2/+8Hey, at least they admit it now:
      http://www.flickr.com/photos/98796339@N00/23618939 ...
    • Xspire, on 03/26/2008, -3/+2And thousands of people are choosing XP over Vista for this very reason. How deliciously ironic.
    • xlar54, on 03/26/2008, -0/+1Isnt think kin to... "Hello Mr Smith, this is Bob, your mechanic. The reason for your bumpy ride the other day? Your transmission fell out of the car. A bolt that should never have fell out...fell out."
  • Tunguska, on 03/25/2008, -8/+57Luke: "I don't believe it!"
    • luke16, on 03/25/2008, -1/+41i don't believe it!
    • lukas88, on 03/25/2008, -1/+35i don't believe it!
      • samgab, on 03/26/2008, -0/+3I've got a really bad feeling about this...
    • soot, on 03/25/2008, -3/+29HABEEB IT
    • Kemosavi, on 03/25/2008, -4/+34Believe it or not, you piece of *****, you're still gonna burn!
    • RpgActioN, on 03/25/2008, -12/+7I can't believe it's not butter!
    • leerayIG88, on 03/25/2008, -20/+4combo breaker!!!!!!!!
    • ayeroxor, on 03/25/2008, -2/+24 A system call that should never fail has failed. This is a generic error code, returned under various conditions.

      Returned when a system call that should never fail does fail. For example, if a call to WaitForMultipleEvents fails or one of the registry functions fails trying to manipulate the protocol/namespace catalogs.

      Returned when a provider does not return SUCCESS and does not provide an extended error code. Can indicate a service provider implementation error.

      http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms740668( ...
      • LLLSecretChimp, on 03/25/2008, -3/+10How dare you go bringing facts into a thread trashing of Microsoft.
      • Thuktun, on 03/25/2008, -0/+2In other words, the file copy was probably to a device whose driver returned an error where it wasn't supposed to.
        • Cerebral, on 03/25/2008, -1/+6Why the hell couldn't they just write that in there?
          • PleaseJustDie, on 03/25/2008, -0/+8Because the Driver didn't return an error code, just a generic failed code. Error and Success codes in windows API's aren't (usually) just 0/1 for fail/success, they usually have a range of codes (like -50 to 0 for failure and 1 to 50 for success) that describe more about the actual error. This problem is happening because the process has failed and returned a generic failure code (0) to windows and since windows wasn't given specific information about what caused the error it can't tell you why it happened.

            Most likely if its an offending driver that had the problem the issue is with whoever programmed the driver not sending a more informative error code. It still could be Microsoft's fault if its one of their drivers, but it could be a problem with a third party driver.
          • Cerebral, on 03/30/2008, -0/+1Yes however, and I'm no programmer so I don't know, why can't it return some more information about what the software that caused the error (file, app etc.). For instance if I was using Adobe Reaer, Firefox, Songbird, a couple network utilities and say notepad and that error popped up why would it not say something like "While Adobe Reader was loading PDFTest.pdf windows returned a general hardware error". Not that it necessarily means that Adobe caused the problem but at least I can check something. Or how about telling me what driver was causing the issue. To me just telling me that "some" error occurred and not telling me what, why and where what the hell good is even telling me there was an error in the first place. It's kind of like "Thanks for the info... let me try this again now..."
    • astrotrain, on 03/25/2008, -10/+4Vader: "Luke.... Microsoft is your Destiny..."
    • thomas040, on 03/25/2008, -0/+11that is why you failed!
    • frieddonuts, on 03/25/2008, -1/+10I can believable
    • lexbaby, on 03/25/2008, -0/+3"That's not true..... That's impossible!"
    • specialK16, on 03/25/2008, -1/+6ELASTIC CORN!
    • lukemandese, on 03/26/2008, -0/+1I DONT BELIEVE IT EITHER!
    • tj111, on 03/26/2008, -1/+2INCONCEIVABLE!
  • imabot, on 03/25/2008, -11/+367there goes that dude's porn..
    • luke16, on 03/25/2008, -0/+102a dude called ruth?
    • astrotrain, on 03/25/2008, -11/+5Dr. Ruth.....

      "Da Pr0n is goodn for da young men and vimen....keep clickin!"
    • rbond, on 03/25/2008, -0/+15That name is to just to throw us off of the trail
    • daytona81, on 03/25/2008, -6/+4no wonder, if you look in the system tray you can see its a DELL computer
      • knopper67, on 03/26/2008, -2/+10And if you look at the picture, you'll notice it's running windows...
    • adecold, on 03/25/2008, -5/+0How come every story on digg has to have a p0rn related comment? with ridiculous diggs i might add...
    • chimaera2005, on 03/26/2008, -1/+3I had no idea QuickBooks was porn! I've been using it to balance my checkbook all this time...
    • DSizzle, on 03/26/2008, -0/+4My porn is in: desktop/chuck_norris/beard
  • senorcool, on 03/25/2008, -8/+31silly computers
    • fcrow, on 03/25/2008, -7/+8Windows..always good for a laugh.
    • Etchii, on 03/25/2008, -3/+23Windows are for kids?
      • lispmachine, on 03/28/2008, -0/+1I would not do such cruel thing to my kids as put them in front of Windows box.
    • BCModder1, on 03/25/2008, -0/+11fav computer error for me is still "keyboard not found press F1 to continue" XD
      • chrismgtis, on 03/26/2008, -0/+1I've been using computers longer than most of you have been walking and have never seen that error. Honestly, I think it is not a real error. What I do know is that you've never actually seen it yourself, just "heard" of it, which makes you gullible and dumb for having mentioned it as some funny error code. Congratulations.
        • BCModder1, on 03/26/2008, -0/+1normally I would digg you down cause you seem to have not done your research but I'm not going to and to answer yes Ive seen this error message my fair share of times *if I was that gullible I would have to shoot myself out of the sheer embarassment* , oh and for the record my first computer was a commodore vic 20 so Ive been using them for a long time. error reporting on the keyboard can be disabled easily in the bios preventing any error including this one from coming up.
        • AdamFromMyspace, on 04/23/2008, -0/+1Try unplugging a PS/2 keyboard with BIOS keyboard error reporting on and you'll get the error, *****.
  • Beson669, on 03/25/2008, -9/+163He should report the problem to Microsoft!
    ...
    • MrZaiko, on 03/25/2008, -0/+61Yea, that always helps
    • xsecretfiles, on 03/26/2008, -5/+2if only he was john mayer and also if it was a mac
  • DErallde, on 03/25/2008, -24/+117Epic Fail?
    • chrisaug18, on 03/25/2008, -1/+7Hey, we've all been there before haven't we....oh wait some of us are good programmers
    • norcalscan, on 03/25/2008, -2/+16Epic fail would have been hilarious for this picture, however the term has been so overused the last 2 months on digg that it no longer stirs any emotion for me. Yeah, digg me down for being grumpy
    • matrixbandit, on 03/26/2008, -1/+1The error couldn't have been too bad if he was able to save the screen capture. Unless this is a reenactment?
    • EgaoNoGenki, on 03/26/2008, -3/+1Photoshop?
  • Sucka27, on 03/25/2008, -5/+451Even 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.

    • akkibaba, on 03/25/2008, -4/+234I have read this comment, and have formed an opinion about it.
      • dpdesign, on 03/26/2008, -2/+33I enjoyed your opinion, and wish to subscribe to your newsletter.
        • AzureRise, on 03/26/2008, -0/+6I don't wish to pay the subscription fee, will you cc that to me?
    • Wonderama, on 03/25/2008, -2/+75Be that as it may, it is what it is.
    • doctechnical, on 03/25/2008, -4/+14Endeavor to persevere.
    • Pilot85, on 03/25/2008, -4/+36All I know is, my heart says maybe.
      • TeebZ, on 03/25/2008, -1/+18What makes a man turn neutral ... Lust for gold? Power? Or were you just born with a heart full of neutrality?
    • TnTBass, on 03/25/2008, -7/+1sfc /scannow

      Something is hosed in there.
  • TexasCanuck, on 03/25/2008, -12/+509My favorite is "Error: The operation complete successfully"

    Only Microsoft...
    • plasticxme, on 03/25/2008, -14/+4Nope, it's not only Microsoft. Have you ever worked with NetBackup? It's a Symantec product, formerly owned by Veritas. Yeah.... it's worse.
      • astrotrain, on 03/25/2008, -7/+4That's why I never trust Microsoft, Symantec, or Veritas for backups.....I want to be able to restore my data...not send it to the land of no recovery.
        • echo2501, on 03/25/2008, -1/+9So, that's how the White House did it.
        • chrismgtis, on 03/26/2008, -0/+1Yea? So what do you recommend, considering you just named almost every major backup software producer available. Let me guess, it has something to do with an open source product. Figures.
    • muffinmonk, on 03/25/2008, -15/+27Here's a another error: Error: Error not found.
      Only Apple...
      • ezman700, on 03/25/2008, -10/+2What does that mean, dude? I'm pretty sure you get disqualified for using "error" three times in a row...
      • WiseWeasel, on 03/25/2008, -8/+7To be fair, that would most-likely be seen only if a 3rd party developer screws up and has a broken error condition with improper handling. I'd be amazed to see that in Apple's in-house software, and would file a bug report about it if I did. With Windows, I wouldn't bother, as I almost expect useless, cryptic error messages.
      • chrismgtis, on 03/26/2008, -1/+3Oh God! You just made a no-no! You said Mac has funny errors too! Mac users are ***** off everywhere.
    • Nysul, on 03/25/2008, -2/+13That actually makes sense, an error occurred, but didn't ***** anything up.
    • mhuggins, on 03/26/2008, -0/+4Not just Microsoft...eBay gave me that error message once too.
    • soundofmind, on 03/26/2008, -0/+0That's nothing really too out of the ordinary. What likely has happened when that message appears is a looping or recursively-defined function's exit condition throws an exception. The system likely has a default pop-up box with "Error: [exception text here] "
      • VegaObscura3, on 03/26/2008, -0/+1Is this going to be on the test?
      • jabelli, on 03/26/2008, -0/+0GetLastError() returns the error set by the last call to SetLastError(). If the function that caused the error does not SetLastError(), the last function that did may have SetLastError(0). Or, a function returns an error and calls SetLastError(), but a later function calls SetLastError(0) before the error message is presented (this is a bug; If you expect GetLastError() to return something meaningful, you're supposed to cache the error before doing anything else, specifically to prevent this). YIAASE (Yes I Am A Software Engineer)
    • thealliedhacker, on 03/26/2008, -0/+1The error you posted and the one in the image both make sense.

      The one in the image is due to an internally failed assertion; this is probably due to the hardware, things like this will happen if you overclock too much.

      The one you posted is due to someone using the wrong logic in thier error reporting mechanism. Someone called GetLastError and just output whatever it said, not checking to see if there actually WAS an error.
  • finalcloud33, on 03/25/2008, -44/+8http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SULsR9-lbw
  • DeskFlyer, on 03/25/2008, -16/+378Looks like someone divided by zero.
    • vstro24, on 03/25/2008, -86/+5them damn niggers thinking they can do math again...
    • SLockhart, on 03/25/2008, -50/+2dividing by zero is the same as dividing by one.
      • cleverdiggname, on 03/25/2008, -2/+24Ummm no it's not.
      • Ceru, on 03/25/2008, -1/+18shhh.. you'll destroy his reality..
      • haveacigar, on 03/25/2008, -3/+14ok... think of it this way...

        8 / 1 = 8
        8 / 0 = infinite

        try it on your calculator
        • thtroyer, on 03/25/2008, -1/+13A better way of seeing this is on a graph.

          http://www.coolmath.com/graphit/index.html
          Graph 1/x.

          When x is 0, it is 1/0. 1/0 is undefined. From the right, it is approaching infinity. From the left, negative infinity.

          Now, lim (x->0) of 1/(x^2) is infinity. But, you don't get infinity from just things like 8/0. That's just undefined.
          • MadOtaku, on 03/25/2008, -0/+11Infinity is undefined. Basically the limit of 1/x as x approaches 0 from the right is undefined, but it's a particular type of undefined: infinity. The limit could have also failed to exist because of a 'hole' in the graph (removable discontinuity at the point in question).
          • Euler2718, on 03/25/2008, -0/+2How do you remove an asymptote?
          • MadOtaku, on 03/25/2008, -0/+6Asymptotes are not a removable discontinuity (and off hand I can't think of a function that makes one). I also should have clarified that there are more ways in which a limit can fail to exist; I just picked removable discontinuity because it's the first that came to mind.

            I'd come up with another example, but I can't remember all the ways a limit can fail to exist; I remember how derivatives can fail to exist but I don't think it's exactly the same and don't want to spread inaccurate info.
          • XristosAnesti, on 03/26/2008, -2/+1I can see how your association with girls might fail to exist as well.
          • MadOtaku, on 03/27/2008, -0/+2Actually, I'm just a really good learner; I remember all that from hearing it in lecture once. I find math interesting but my interest in music, current events, and just being good with words and conversation makes me a fairly popular person. Not all diggers are lonely losers who can't talk to women.

            Knowledge actually makes you more able to talk with people. I know enough about various subjects that I'm comfortable talking with all my professors but am up-to-date enough on music and events that I can talk to all my peers too. Pretty much the only thing I can't talk about is TV; I hate it and stopped watching it last year.
      • pintomp3, on 03/25/2008, -2/+11right, and pi = 3.
        • SLockhart, on 03/25/2008, -12/+1No. pi = 3.14159265
          • MadOtaku, on 03/25/2008, -1/+12No, solving the equation for a circle's circumference for pi yelds: pi = circumference/(2*radius). pi is irrational and any attempt to represent it as a decimal will fail.
      • SLockhart, on 03/25/2008, -20/+1Dividing 8 by 0 is 8. I don't see how that's hard is to understand.
        • akkibaba, on 03/25/2008, -2/+24Troll? Really stupid guy? You decide.
        • uncouthyouth, on 03/25/2008, -1/+12Successful troll is successful.
        • gimmeit, on 03/25/2008, -0/+7how about poor attempt at sarcasm....at least I hope it was...
        • MadOtaku, on 03/25/2008, -1/+4I'm not going to bother explaining why you're wrong, but you are. If you want to know the answer read up on limits and infinity. Specifically you'll want to read about how limits can fail to exist.
        • solidus636, on 03/26/2008, -0/+2How many times does 0 go into 8? INFINITE.
      • blazes816, on 03/25/2008, -8/+3If anything it'd be 0. Put 8 objects into 2 groups. There are 4 in each group. Put 8 objects in 0 groups. How many are there per group?
        • WiseWeasel, on 03/25/2008, -0/+7infinity or 'does not compute'...
        • SLockhart, on 03/26/2008, -7/+2No, dividing by 0 is the same as not dividing at all. I don't care about all your useless theoretical crap 8 divided by 0 is clearly 8.
        • thtroyer, on 03/26/2008, -0/+2No.

          Take 8/1. It's 8.

          Take 8/ 0.5. That's 16.

          Take 8/0.25. That's 32.

          Take 8/0.125. That's 64.

          Take 8/0.0000001. That's 80000000.

          I could keep going, but that's just unnecessary.
          8/0 is undefined, but as the denominator approaches 0 from the right, the result approaches infinity.

          (And I don't even like math. :/ )
      • l3itchplease, on 03/25/2008, -0/+4its difficult to even pass that comment off as sarcasm... are you really that retarded?
      • Edudris, on 03/25/2008, -1/+0It depends on the architecture.

        x86 will raise an exception.
        PowerPC will return 0.
      • AROZ, on 03/26/2008, -0/+1Fail.
      • Smithamax, on 03/26/2008, -0/+0
        f(x) = 1/x
        as x approaches 0
        f(x) approaches Infinity or -Infinity
        http://revisioncentre.co.uk/gcse/maths/1overx.gif
    • Mecdude, on 03/25/2008, -0/+8He's lucky to be alive...
    • TeagueSterling, on 03/26/2008, -1/+11Wouldn't that be "Error: A system call that should always fail has succeeded."
    • Aensland, on 03/26/2008, -2/+8Chuck Norris can divide by zero.
    • dawnraid101, on 03/26/2008, -2/+4Oh shi
    • sikofitt, on 03/26/2008, -0/+0haha
  • wontstoptalking, on 03/25/2008, -43/+4For the last time, STOP USING IMAGESHACK!
    • floppyparty, on 03/25/2008, -0/+7NO WIRE HANGERS
    • Jholder112233, on 03/25/2008, -0/+14For the last time, THERE'S NO NEED FOR CAPS LOCK.
    • purplehaze420, on 03/25/2008, -6/+2Yes, PLEASE, my work blocks it!
    • gimmeit, on 03/25/2008, -1/+0While you are at it, stop hosting on tinypic. My work blocks that. Photobucket works though.
    • tmedesign, on 03/25/2008, -0/+14LEAVE BRITNEY ALONE!
    • nontitle, on 03/25/2008, -0/+7The last time? Oh, thank god...
    • chrismgtis, on 03/26/2008, -1/+1I use Imageshack, like it and will continue to use it, lame brain.

      No more stupid comments please. Thanks.
  • Grova, on 03/25/2008, -11/+68It's a trap!
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      • IronPwnage, on 03/25/2008, -10/+5=( Beat me to it.
        • AzureRise, on 03/26/2008, -0/+2I'll beat you again if you don't get back in that hole so I can bury you.
    • rizla420, on 03/25/2008, -3/+3there it is again.
    • diggdiggerid, on 03/25/2008, -0/+6a transsexual error?
    • usingpond, on 03/25/2008, -0/+2HAHAHA WE GET SIGNAL RIGHT DEWDS? STILL FUNNY
    • unrealmp3, on 03/25/2008, -1/+2Do a barrell roll !
    • fatejudger, on 03/26/2008, -0/+1Your tastebuds can't repel flavor of that magnitude!
    • GuacamoleSan, on 03/26/2008, -1/+1. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . _________
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      . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . _,,,--~~~~~~~~--,_ . . . . ._________/
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  • j0hnb, on 03/25/2008, -23/+7non imageshack mirror.
    http://prettyoblivion.com/systemfail.html
  • Premier, on 03/25/2008, -3/+21We can only imagine what horrors this will release upon the world
  • metalbabble, on 03/25/2008, -8/+642a comment that should never have been posted has been posted
    • Sagags, on 03/25/2008, -38/+21This comment is funny because it applied the error in the image to the digg comment system, Therefore restating the error in a place that many people will find humorous
      • Fatcheeseguy, on 03/25/2008, -2/+35Great work detective. I can now go back to sleep safely.
      • WhatInThe42o, on 03/25/2008, -3/+7See, and your comment wasn't funny because it was overly stating the blindingly ***** obvious.
      • Dark7, on 03/25/2008, -5/+3Wow apparently you guys don't understand sarcasm....way to fail
        • celkin, on 03/26/2008, -0/+1It's not sarcasm unless it ends in /sarcasm
      • twertyto, on 03/25/2008, -0/+9Hilarious! I don't know why but I find it extremely funny to point out the humor in something in a very dry way. Just like this.
    • underdog138, on 03/25/2008, -2/+14Self-referencing lolcat joke is self-referencing
    • dagnome1984, on 03/25/2008, -0/+13Dugg for the Dragon Quest avatar.
    • koft, on 03/25/2008, -2/+4ERROR_SUCCESS zing!
  • Sagags, on 03/25/2008, -38/+20This is funny because the computer said something that should never fail has failed
    • ajames01, on 03/25/2008, -2/+6yes... yes it is
      • Veeoh, on 03/25/2008, -2/+1I hope he was beng sarcastic - if he was, then his comments great. if not, then... well, um...
    • Louis11, on 03/25/2008, -0/+6Uh, thanks for pointing out the humor?
    • chrisaug18, on 03/25/2008, -0/+6No, it is funny because some programmer somewhere(read: Microsoft) put in an error message for testing purposes that he thought would never execute and it did, resulting in a funny screenshot
    • flarn2006, on 03/25/2008, -3/+2Thank you, Captain State-The-Obvious!
    • krogothwolf, on 03/25/2008, -2/+1Damn You Fouad!!!!!!!!
    • kastlip88, on 03/25/2008, -0/+4IS FUNNY, NO?
  • Arisian, on 03/25/2008, -9/+209That's just Windows XP referring to Vista
    • donut2d, on 03/26/2008, -1/+2That was beautiful. Thank you!
    • 2rri, on 03/26/2008, -0/+1Almost made a new username just to give you TWO thumbs up, instead of one!
  • koft, on 03/25/2008, -5/+28This is what happens when you write your software assuming the user has admin priv.
    • hello2usir, on 03/25/2008, -1/+4It's a Winsock error that happens when the service provider, in this case it's likely the network card driver, returns an unexpected error condition back to Winsock. And since drivers operate in Kernel mode, they don't need to worry about user privileges.
      • koft, on 03/25/2008, -4/+1service provider != driver
        • hello2usir, on 03/25/2008, -0/+5In the context of Winsock and Windows programming, a driver very much is a service provider. I suggest buying some books on the subject.
          • koft, on 03/26/2008, -0/+1You're right, a kernel mode driver on windows can in fact be a service provider but a service provider doesn't have to be a driver. You need to read some books on the subject.
          • hello2usir, on 03/26/2008, -0/+2I'm well aware of this, but that has no bearing on the original argument, which, to reiterate, is a counter to "this is what happens when you write your software assuming the user has admin priv". Rather, this happens when a service provider returns an unexpected error signal back to Winsock. A driver, which is a service provider, can do this, without regard to user privilege.

            Now I will entertain your original comment so far as to say that yes, conceivably, you could write a user mode service, such as an LSP, and due to insufficient privilege, return errant status to Winsock. However these two things are mutually exclusvie. The truth is that any number of strange errors can (and do) occur because a programmer has disregarded access rights in his code. However, this particular error is not necessarily indicative of such an occurance.

            Read it a few times and it will sink in.
          • koft, on 03/26/2008, -0/+1You're right, I agree with your last post 100%. There really are 1000 possibilities other than user priv that could cause this error and immediately assuming priv is the source of the problem is irrational.
        • chrismgtis, on 03/26/2008, -0/+1And typing "!=" instead of does not equal/is not the same as (etc) does not make you cool, it just makes you look like a massive tool. Don't ever do that again.
          • koft, on 03/26/2008, -0/+1oh! byte me. i could have written "not equal" but != is short hand. a service provider is not necessarily a kernel mode driver, there for !=. quit being pedantic.
    • nav353, on 03/26/2008, -0/+0And you know what happens when you assume...
    • jeriqo, on 03/26/2008, -0/+1A decent OS (Mac Os / Linux / any Unix) would prompt you for an administrator password if needed.

      Quite easy.
    • juanjodic, on 04/12/2008, -0/+1hahahahaha the stupidity on the OS error description happens because you wrote a bad piece of software! hahahaha thats a new one, you must work for Microsoft.

      ps. I'll recommend using something like "Error unknown" so Vista doesn't look sooooo stupid hahahaha
  • mwyres, on 03/25/2008, -5/+241My personal all time favourite was on a Sun Xterm about 15 years ago..."Error: An error did not occur"...

    Gold...
    • ncdave101, on 03/25/2008, -1/+7I always like this (under Basic-Plus on RSTS/E):

      ?Program lost, sorry
    • RetiredMidn, on 03/25/2008, -3/+13My favorite occurred on an RCA Spectra 70 (yes, I'm that old) in college:

      JOB 1234 HAS DEVICE LPT0 IN SILENT DEATH

      JOB 1235 HAS DEVICE LPT1 IN SILENT DEATH

      ... and so on through all the peripherals until

      JOB 0000 HAS DEVICE CPU0 IN SILENT


      • madpie, on 03/25/2008, -0/+11I guess you had to be there.
        • MadOtaku, on 03/25/2008, -0/+10I thought it was hysterical. The joke is that everything kept dying and an error was displayed until finally the CPU died and the error didn't finish. It was announcing it's own death with its final breath.
          • MadOtaku, on 03/26/2008, -3/+3Honestly did you really say, "It was announcing [it is] own death[...]"? It's not that hard to keep its/it's straight; you even got it right in the latter half of that same sentence!
          • Twisty, on 03/26/2008, -1/+2Whoa calm down buddy.
          • dawnraid101, on 03/26/2008, -0/+1I guess you had to be there
      • twertyto, on 03/25/2008, -0/+10That is old. How do you know how to use the internet?
  • monospaced, on 03/25/2008, -122/+16Get a Mac
    • iloveazngurlzs, on 03/25/2008, -12/+3ROFLCOPTERS!
    • astrotrain, on 03/25/2008, -5/+30True... the errors would be more graphic... such as the dead mac on its side...
    • scarz99, on 03/25/2008, -4/+5It's a Trap!
    • shrednwail, on 03/25/2008, -6/+14I know I've never had an error message on my Mac...
      /sarcasm
      • MadOtaku, on 03/25/2008, -4/+1You said that jokingly, but now that I think of it. I haven't gotten an error message that wasn't my fault (trying to eject a disk that's being used) for as long as I can remember. I'm honestly not sure if I've ever seen one.

        Edit: Oh, BinaryFragger's comment below reminded me. I've seen 2 kernel panics in the last 4 years.
    • telepheedian, on 03/25/2008, -9/+12Get a Life.
    • BinaryFragger, on 03/25/2008, -8/+7Ever hear of a kernel panic?
    • TitaniumLizzard, on 03/26/2008, -0/+2bury this. beaten.
  • EdwrdDiggrhands, on 03/25/2008, -28/+8So that's basically windows' way of saying "damn son, your computer is SERIOUSLY *****."
  • emiller, on 03/25/2008, -29/+2HI RES PLZ?
  • shodson, on 03/25/2008, -44/+14he should upgrade to Ubuntu
    • scarz99, on 03/25/2008, -13/+3Upgrading to Ubuntu is like downgrading from Win2000 to 98.
    • plr4ever, on 03/25/2008, -4/+9I'm fairly sure you meant *switch*, because AFAIK there is no "Ubuntu 7.10" option on windows update

      /ubuntu user
    • ileftfark, on 03/25/2008, -1/+4I use Ubuntu, but have you tried running QB in Linux? If you *can* get it to work, it's ***** painful, both to get working and to use.
  • indiandudeo, on 03/25/2008, -58/+15Thats happened to me a couple of times. I was just like...wtf.

    But now I am a Mac user. :)
    • mortigon, on 03/25/2008, -12/+9your wiener shrunk?
      • izzajoker, on 03/25/2008, -4/+14yeah, and we just get "an uspecified error occurred error code -3405" Much more helpful, I agree.
        • MadOtaku, on 03/26/2008, -0/+6Well, you could google that. Specific error codes are certainly more helpful than generic error messages.
        • celkin, on 03/26/2008, -0/+1I especially like when the application I'm using unexpectedly quits :(

          But at least and Finder and other applications haven't been affected.
  • MonsieurShak, on 03/25/2008, -39/+41Time to upgrade to Vista!
    • kevdotbadger, on 03/25/2008, -12/+6lol?

      no, not lol.
      • iloveazngurlzs, on 03/25/2008, -6/+17vista is pretty good. A few glitches because its so new, but its still pretty badass/
        • Frenzy44, on 03/25/2008, -15/+4not if you count the 2 gigs ram you need to run vista. an OS should make its goal to be lighter/faster than its predecessor, and hog less memory.
        • Doomhammer, on 03/25/2008, -2/+8Not to defend Vista's outrageous resource hogging necessarily, but newer versions of OS'es should have more features, and thus require more resources. If the goal was solely to make each new version more light than the previous one, then features would steadily be _removed_, and if that happened I think you'd be complaining even more than you are about Vista hogging resources.

          Now, granted, Vista pushes this to the extreme (i.e. only adding a minimal amount of features that are actually useful while consuming a vastly greater amount of system resources), but you shouldn't make a broad statement that it's bad simply because it uses more memory than Windows XP did.
        • shadcrkd, on 03/25/2008, -2/+4"should make its goal to be lighter/faster than its predecessor"

          so xp should be ligher and faster than win95?
        • staxofmax, on 03/25/2008, -0/+11Good God, not this ***** again.
        • telepheedian, on 03/25/2008, -0/+7If you hate Vista so much, maybe you should just go back to 2000. Compared to 2000, XP is just bloated anyway. :P
        • BCModder1, on 03/25/2008, -4/+2I hate vista and I run it, and the bloat in vista is far greater then that of XP in comparison to win2k. meh imho MS released vista to feed the dogs till they could sweep it under the rug once windows 7 gets released, yay another ME for us. XD

          digg me down I don't give a ***** I'm not gonna censor myself for anyone. XD
        • specialK16, on 03/25/2008, -1/+210GB only for a Vista ultimate install..... speaking about bloat.
        • SchmuckofNI, on 03/26/2008, -1/+1more like 30GB.
    • TheAmazingBob, on 03/26/2008, -1/+0FACK
    • whitenerdy92, on 03/26/2008, -2/+13you mean downgrade right?
      • speedreed663, on 03/29/2008, -0/+0ur right, VISTA and microsoft in general sucks
  • bluechips23, on 03/25/2008, -13/+1That dude just got SOL
  • kmb1794, on 03/25/2008, -17/+5Windows has stupid. I get it!
  • InnerBlueAbyss, on 03/25/2008, -29/+22At least it ISNT a Mac.
    • Louis11, on 03/25/2008, -6/+3Funny . . . i don't recall my Mac returning ambiguous errors. But I guess that's what a better system does for you.
      • xaeon, on 03/25/2008, -1/+2Yeah, a "better" system that only has to be compatible with a few specific bits of hardware, rather than, you know, near enough every single bit of computer hardware in the world.

        When OSX, or any other Apple operating system, can be run on near enough ANY PC in the world without crashing like a bitch, call me.
        • mrBitch, on 03/26/2008, -0/+1So, Windows is better because it CAN crash like a bitch on "near enough ANY PC in the world ?"
          • xaeon, on 03/26/2008, -0/+1I think you completely misunderstood what I'm saying. The majority of Windows' crashes are caused by third party devices and drivers. This is one of the reasons Windows may appear to crash more often than a Mac (although, I think the problem is greatly over exaggerated). I'm simply saying that Macs don't support the hundreds of thousands of third party devices and drivers that Windows does, and you can bet your ass that the day Macs CAN support all those drivers, etc, is the day Macs start crashing left, right and centre.
      • InnerBlueAbyss, on 03/26/2008, -0/+1I repair Computers on all sides of the spectrum, and Mac's crash more often than windows machines, not to mention OSX is watered-down linux. Your paying $1000 for a paint job on PC hardware and a OS that was designed to be free but has been modified and with a price tag added on it.
  • underpants, on 03/25/2008, -11/+7Priceless.
  • turner050, on 03/25/2008, -1/+48Well at least it's not an illegal operation.
    • ExRe, on 03/26/2008, -0/+8Warning: Your computer has just had an illegal operation.

      // knock knock

      Oh *****...
      • bejayel, on 03/26/2008, -0/+2Warning: Your computer has just PERFORMED an illegal operation.
    • exploto, on 03/26/2008, -1/+4Ok, how many people freaked out the very first time they got that message on their computer? *raises own hand*
      • bernlin2000, on 03/26/2008, -0/+1I know I did...all I was trying to do was open a program...I bought it and everything in the store wtf :-P
    • celkin, on 03/26/2008, -0/+2Ahh...the wonders of Windows 98.
    • exploto, on 03/26/2008, -1/+2Freaked out as in, honestly thought the police were on their way :-/ (I was just a little kid!)
  • gak001, on 03/25/2008, -19/+11I guess I have to be the one to say it - 'Shopped.

    (Look at the margins)
    • upfrontfanatic, on 03/25/2008, -7/+0Also the totally empty taskbar is telling. With only a window open doing copy-operations (and no explorer-windows open) there should be one there for the copy-window itself.
      • xaeon, on 03/25/2008, -0/+4You can close both the target and source windows and still have the copy operation continue.
      • TonyLocNE, on 03/26/2008, -0/+1windows has these boxes with X's in them... sometimes helpful to know.
    • CaptanXax, on 03/25/2008, -0/+10Uh. Yeah. No one knows ***** about jpeg compression, do they?
    • asskicker32, on 03/25/2008, -0/+5and noone knows that you can edit non-pertinent information out of the image.

      Read the technet article on this error then confirm that its fake. Thanks
    • Doomhammer, on 03/25/2008, -1/+7I think the fact that the error is in the MSDN docs (as per another comment further up) is pretty strong evidence that the error does exist...
    • mllawso, on 03/25/2008, -3/+2Agreed. You can tell by looking at the pixels. Only photoshopping makes pixels like those.
    • NotLikely, on 03/25/2008, -0/+7This is not evidence of Photoshop. It's evidence of your lack of understanding of digital imaging. What you're seeing has nothing to do with whether or not the image was faked in Photoshop. If you were to take a screenshot of a similar display on your PC, open it in your choice of image editing utility, and then save it as a JEPG-format file, you would see similar artifacts, making no changes to the original, uncompressed image whatsoever.

      Conversely, I can create with Photoshop a faked-up Windows screen that displays no unusual artifacting at all - I just have to avoid using JPEG compression, and choose to save it in an uncompressed format, or one that uses lossless compression. When you apply JPEG compression to an image like that with hard color transitions, you get noise around the hard edges. That's a natural artifact of JPEG, which was designed to work on continuous tone images like those encountered in photographs, and which always exhibits this type of artifacting on flat-color images with sudden color transitions. So the funny pixel noise has nothing to do with Photoshop. Try it. Learn it. Understand it. And don't shoot your mouth off about things you don't understand.
      • theshizzler, on 03/25/2008, -1/+6Take your logic and reasoned explanations elsewhere. We don't stand for that kind of talk here on the internets.
        • CaptainAmerica1, on 03/25/2008, -1/+3You could copy and paste your post as a reply to about 1,000,000 other posts on Digg and it would make total sense. Thanks for a good one!
      • kretik, on 03/25/2008, -1/+2He's probably seen some 'shops in his time. That, and the pixels. He can tell.
      • RevGonzo19, on 03/26/2008, -0/+1Maybe if you weren't such a Jew hater, you would see that this plainly is photoshopped.
    • skeeterbug84, on 03/25/2008, -0/+3http://support.microsoft.com/kb/819124

      WSASYSCALLFAILURE (Operating system dependent)
      • Translation: System call failure.
      • Description: This error is returned when a system call that should never fail fails. For example, this error occurs if a call to WaitForMultipleObjects fails or one of the registry functions fails trying to change the protocol or name space catalogs.
      • RevGonzo19, on 03/26/2008, -1/+1Look Mr. Smarty Pants, how about you take all your "knowledge" and shove it somewhere else. Like your butt.
        • skeeterbug84, on 03/31/2008, -0/+1Not really smart, just resourceful. Using that fancy search button was oooo so hard.
    • matt.rubin, on 03/25/2008, -0/+5you're photoshopped!
    • nontitle, on 03/25/2008, -0/+1It's photoshopped??? Let's sue adobe for falsely making people laugh!! Those bastards...
    • RevGonzo19, on 03/26/2008, -0/+1Maybe if you weren't such a jew hater, you would see that this was plainly not photoshopped.
  • skyshock1, on 03/25/2008, -2/+20Gator in the system tray? Yeah......
    • Brossman, on 03/25/2008, -1/+3nop, Dell software.
      • Xanrez, on 03/25/2008, -0/+2and the other icon is a "LogMeIn" icon from logmein.com
        • speedk0re, on 03/25/2008, -0/+3which would explain why there's no desktop shown... logmein kills any desktop images
        • Ataxia2008, on 03/25/2008, -1/+1Good piece of software that.
    • jwalk81980, on 03/26/2008, -1/+2The other one is LogMeIn Rescue.
  • rdubya44, on 03/25/2008, -36/+14*Laughs while using MacBook Pro*
    • 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.
      • ophello, on 03/26/2008, -0/+1the spinning wheel isnt an error, smartguy
    • lnxfi, on 03/25/2008, -1/+12*Laughs while listening to the radio.*
    • speedk0re, on 03/25/2008, -0/+15*Laughs while using his etch-a-sketch*
    • hoogie, on 03/25/2008, -5/+4*Laughs while watching "The Jerk", starring Steve Martin.*
      • Ataxia2008, on 03/25/2008, -1/+4*Laughs while watching "Cheaper by the Dozen", starring Steve Martin.*

        I lie...
        • bulkhater, on 03/25/2008, -1/+3Laughs while watching "L.A. Story" starring Steve Martin
    • jimjoke, on 03/25/2008, -0/+6*Laughs while sharpening pencils.*
    • patho, on 03/25/2008, -0/+9*Laughs while eating pizza*
    • davdw001, on 03/26/2008, -0/+0"laughs while well, laughing?
  • doctechnical, on 03/25/2008, -2/+15The message could have at least contained a Guru Meditation Number. Hmmph.
    • garywebster, on 03/25/2008, -1/+2+1 digg for you. Those were the days.
  • isiah1, on 03/25/2008, -19/+6Joke: How are computers and air conditioners similar?
    Answer: Both don't run very well with Windows Open.
    (Gay, I know)
  • Fatcheeseguy, on 03/25/2008, -4/+108What's that Dell tray icon doing there.......?
    That's probably your problem.
    • jeriqo, on 03/26/2008, -1/+199% of windows machine got ***** in the tray, anyway
  • homercles337, on 03/25/2008, -4/+5I love it! I often make nonsensical error messages and comments myself. However, im just a scientific programmer and rarely "release" anything.

    error('D'OH! Something not good happened...', errmsg);
  • greensauce, on 03/25/2008, -7/+7flickr mirror
    http://www.flickr.com/photos/13999565@N07/23614367 ...
  • 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?
    • arjunprabhu, on 03/25/2008, -0/+10its fixed in one of the patches. see KB909095
      • hendriks, on 03/25/2008, -0/+10Thanks, that fixed it! Still a pretty funky error message if you ask me.
        • kaeppler, on 03/26/2008, -0/+1It was probably programmed in Beijing. Looking at the code would probably reveal it's just as "funky".
      • ScottyWZ, on 03/26/2008, -2/+1Actually, the error message actually happens "because the Windows kernel power manager cannot obtain the memory resources that are required to prepare the computer to hibernate." But, taken literally, that error message is not true; it should say "Microsoft was too stupid to finish the API."
        • repick3, on 03/26/2008, -1/+2And in reality your comment rode the failboat all the way down the failriver to the gulf of fail where it was eaten by a failfish.
  • greensauce, on 03/25/2008, -9/+2flickr mirror:
    http://www.flickr.com/photos/13999565@N07/23614367 ...
  • RioMo, on 03/25/2008, -27/+13Wouldn't have happened on a Mac.

    • smoothmedia, on 03/25/2008, -4/+35You're right, the mac program would have just exited without making any attempt to explain the error.
      • cappa1983, on 03/25/2008, -6/+1+1
      • ophello, on 03/26/2008, -0/+1when....have you EVER seen an error message on windows that actualy A. made sense B. gave you half a clue as what to do to fix the problem?

        you're full of yourself.
    • hrvatski, on 03/25/2008, -3/+16Wouldn't have paid 2-3 times more for a Mac.
      • ophello, on 03/26/2008, -0/+1you people STILL think macs are that expensive? are you still living in 1998?
    • licoricewhip, on 03/25/2008, -3/+30Pretty much nothing happens on a Mac.
    • DeFex, on 03/25/2008, -7/+5Yeah it was probably caused by playing a game or running a 3d program.
      • nontitle, on 03/25/2008, -0/+2Well, it was caused by doing something useful.
    • Louis11, on 03/25/2008, -3/+3I don't know what you guys are complaining about. On the rare occasion that a program does crash on my Mac it returns an error just fine.
      • Doomhammer, on 03/25/2008, -0/+8Moot point, RioMo is a douchebag regardless of how Mac software behaves. =P
    • ultrasparc, on 03/25/2008, -0/+5Fag.
    • jayzeus, on 03/25/2008, -0/+3Yeah, Macs just get a "kernel panic" error, that's all...
  • isiah1, on 03/25/2008, -5/+68IS THAT A LEGIT COPY OF QUICKBOOKS?
  • toconnor, on 03/25/2008, -1/+108No worries. I'm sure clicking the Dell Support icon in the taskbar will fix everything.
    • djekz, on 03/25/2008, -0/+25So will the 2 hour phone call to "John" (Akhilesh) in "Denver" (Bombay)
      • IllBeBack, on 03/25/2008, -0/+8I'm going to have you reboot the computer and then check the same.
        Kindly do the needful now.
  • melonhedd, on 03/25/2008, -11/+4Nice JPEG
  • jesusthatsgreat, on 03/25/2008, -9/+3shopped or not, it's just accepted because it's running XP...
    • stroupnp, on 03/26/2008, -0/+3What, as opposed to the amazing Vista?
  • ImmediateAction, on 03/25/2008, -10/+2Epic Fail!
  • matthewdestroys, on 03/25/2008, -1/+15blue screen of fail.
  • 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)?
    • Lunarbunny, on 03/25/2008, -2/+5I've had this happen to me... it's more like "DrWatson Postmortem Debugger has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience."
    • TnTBass, on 03/25/2008, -0/+2Ditto. Had this happen to me as well. I wanted to report it, but it always crashed. I figure it happens when they are too full on error messages in their remote database - they just stop taking any more.
  • Canadian0207, on 03/25/2008, -15/+21isn't most of this ***** photoshopped anyway?
  • defy, on 03/25/2008, -0/+20Poor Ruth.
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