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- phpirate, on 10/12/2007, -8/+112lkbnfuiag jnjpodfaighiugbjsihfugadfgvubidagda ns dx hilf lufs vlua bu uhsdbi;oare gliuehaguae. They're right. Banging on the keyboard like a monkey is fun.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+56You have entered too much data while banging like a monkey on the keyboard. Call Henrik!
- johndi, on 10/12/2007, -1/+53My favorite error I've seen was from Windows. I think NT 4.0, but it's been about 7 years.
The operation cannot be completed because the operation was completed successfully.
It's been long enough I'm no longer sure that's exactly right, but it's close enough. There were some numbers too, but I don't have those handy. If the message was true and everything had worked correctly it would have been no big deal. I can't even remember what we were working on. Just that it didn't work, and it wasn't successful no matter how many times Windows claimed it was. - Hindu_Wardrobe, on 10/12/2007, -1/+51I have a screenshot of that printed out and on my door. It's "Error: The operation completed successfully"
- digitalgopher, on 10/12/2007, -0/+47gotta love this:
http://www.thedailywtf.com/images/200606/piracy.png
classic! - Takteek, on 10/12/2007, -0/+41On Windows XP setup I once got:
"Setup cannot continue. Error: Setup requires setup." - JDines, on 10/12/2007, -2/+41I recall my mother being quite concerned when she was informed that her computer "... has attempted to perform an illegal operation." She was pretty relieved to learn that the Feds wouldn't be breaking down her door!
- sundancekid503, on 10/12/2007, -4/+33Error in: ErrorMessage()
- Darth_tater, on 10/12/2007, -6/+34Key Board error, hit F1 to continue.
- Takteek, on 10/12/2007, -1/+27Oh, and this:
"Your system shell has changed. The Compaq software will work with your new shell, but the new shell will not work with your Compaq software. Do you wish to keep your Compaq software working? Click yes if you are unsure."
http://www.cnn.com/TECH/computing/9810/06/errormess.idg/ - XxN3RDC0R3xX, on 10/12/2007, -2/+25My friend got some error message this morning while trying to install a game, it said "Catastrophic failure." We both thought it was pretty cool.
- Zippo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+22FLAGRANT SYSTEM ERROR
Computer over. Virus = very yes. - Kazanoe, on 10/12/2007, -0/+20My personal prefrence comes from audacity; 'Error: Nothing to do'
I do belive my computer got bored. - BabyWookie, on 10/12/2007, -4/+23I had a weird Taiwanese motherboard once. The Engrish in the chipset drivers installer messages was pretty hilarious. After it installed the AGP driver, it would pop up a dialog box saying "You have too reinstall graphy driver." Yes, "graphy". Then, at the end of the install process it would pop up a dialog saying "You not suppose see this text." Wacky stuff.
- johnners, on 10/12/2007, -3/+21Those are excellent!.. I just choked on my coffee.
Kind of reminds me of the classic error you can get in Windows XP, where the internet connection wizard crashes, then asks you if you'd like to submit a report, only to tell you you're not connected to the internet. I love it! - iSEPIC, on 10/12/2007, -1/+18QUOTE
Mac apps tend to avoid dialog popups period
UNQUOTE
Yes, that way you think nothing is going wrong, just check the log - lol - prockcore, on 10/12/2007, -0/+14Linux will spit out the error "Printer on fire!" when there's an invalid status returned by a printer.
Another I always loved is "Keyboard Not Present, Press F1 To Continue" - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+15"Server Error in '/' Application./"
How ironic. ;) - ericmoritz, on 10/12/2007, -1/+13That happened to me at work one day when I was messing with a DTS package. I saw, "Catastropic Error", I said, "Whelp, time to go to lunch".
- Durrok, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12Actaully I prefer:
"Keyboard not found or not functioning. Press F1 to continue" - PathDaemon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11My fave: "Keyboard failure. Strike F1 to continue, F2 to run the setup utility." There was also that Autodesk Inventor error consisting of "⟨" (that should be a box character, if it gets stripped).
- Space_Balls, on 10/12/2007, -2/+13how is this
"New Hardware Found:
Disk Drive"
funny? - Muncher, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9I'll admit I was a bit confused when I first received that message. I always thought it was a strange way to tell users that their program had crashed.
This is a very entertaining site, by the way; it made me laugh. - terminalpariah, on 10/12/2007, -6/+15http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Circle
It's this light-hearted attitude that makes free software so much fun :D - leobaby, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9I once received an error message that I did not have enough space free to delete a file.
- sykotic, on 10/12/2007, -3/+12Great messages. I ended up laughing out load in a quiet class when I read "Please bang on the keyboard like a monkey." dugg
- hollywoodone, on 10/12/2007, -7/+16Digg, a good laugh.
- stuartnoble, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10This is ASP.NET with debugging messages turned on. Nothing stupid about it, just a bad sys admin.
- jgclark123, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9I never got that, but my high school's computers did all the time. Then again, their anti-tampering software forced them to revert to the old virus database at every restart, resulting in >200 day old virus databases.
- bitcloud, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10is this a dagger I see before me, handle toward myhidoioije foijsoih efo;;ljd
you're right!
Barrels of fun... - spadgos, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8regardless of the fact that you weren't doing anything illegal, it was probably still in your best interests to be banned from AOL.
- vashmyvindows, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8When VisualHub fails to predict the time it takes to encode a video, it changes from the standard "x minutes remaining" to "Okay I lied, file y will be done when it's done."
- dodd, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10About Windows activation screen saying you have 15418898 left, this is not a bug, this is because Windows was cracked, so there is nothing funny here.
- Linkage155, on 10/12/2007, -2/+9Yeah, get a better capture card because hers is making the system crash.
- aamer, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6to be fair, the last example about usability.gov isn't all that bad. what they have on the right side are their updates, not their navigation.
there really is not a true navigation bar on that page ... the main page itself is a huge navigation bar. - Leviathan777, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6The missing 2008 year for credit card expiration thing is what happens when people who don't understand javascript use it to do things you should never do with javascript. I'll bet anyone real money that the problem is a string concatenation of '2000' + 08. The 08 is interpreted as octal, so they get '2000', and toss the result before generating the list. Stupid.
But if you want people to spend money, never, never generate this kind of select options with javascript!
Stop these programmers before they sin again! - LucianSolaris, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6my not-so-favorite comes from Steam:
ERROR: No Error - Timit, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5I guess you haven't seen Nero super disc edition:
http://img83.imageshack.us/img83/6370/badnero1ov.png
This happened to me once after a failed CD burning... - Mike89, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5I tried to install Visual Basic .NET and the setup failed and gave me a "Would you like to debug with Visual Basic .NET?"
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7and the compy just peed on my carpet
- bob_the_alien, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Yeah, I got the Server to Busy error too, I thought that's what this was about, I was like why is this funny, just standard, but then I refreshed, and now I understand. This is one digg effect that was very confusing.
- UberNick, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Yeah! My parents sat me down after school one day to tell me I was banned from AOL because I was committing illegal operations. Took me forever to convince them that it was just an error message!
- dr-steve, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6Under the Aegis OS from Apollo Computers, there was an error message, 'Cannot fit 48" pipe through 36" opening.' (Something much like that, circa 1985.)
And from the golden age of computing (that is, before most of the people reading this were born)... Under IBM's OS360 MS/MVT (late 60s to mid 70s), we had two error messages,
Wrong Error
Invalid Error
-Steve - biometricks, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4I saw a Windows 2000 screen (frozen during boot) once on one of the local stations that usually displays a list of local events and the local weather. Apparently someone at my cable provider was having a bad day.
- spadgos, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4about 15 people already have mentioned that one. l2read.
- psykr, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Also, the bang on your keyboard like a monkey comment is most likely not an error, the data is used to seed a random number generator or something, and is part of the instructions.
The way it was phrased is amusing though - bluephoenix, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4"Windows has found an unknown device and is installing a driver for it."
- SmurfButcherBob, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3My favorite is still from trying to fire up Softwin (yuck) on a f*ing Mac. Some days, it would be fine. Other days...
"An unknown, unexpected error has occurred."
Uh... if you don't know what it is, how did you catch it, and if was unexpected, why did you trap it?
(and FYI, this turned out to be a missing font issue. I discovered that the user had a habit of changing them, daily.) - VeganG, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I have a friend in tech support and she tells me about all the strange error messages that lazy programmers used. One of them says, "An error took place, but your order probably went through."
- recursive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+6Yeah, but ummm.... 8 isn't an octal digit.
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