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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Serious Hardware/Software Crap > The Zen of Error Messages
 
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Computer viking
May 30, 2011
Now with less breakage.

darnzen posted:

My favorite is the PHP white screen. No error, just... silence.

Followed by swearing and opening a terminal to check the apache error logs.
You bastard, I had completely forgotten that particular misfeature. Set all forms of error logging to max, do some simple typo, and ... zero-length output. Yay.

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Computer viking
May 30, 2011
Now with less breakage.

beoba posted:

These Haiku Error Messages were for a contest. A couple of my favs:

Ha, reminds me of NetPositive. :)
(Has it been 12 years? Ouch.)

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