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Sep 5, 2012 20:52
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Never always do nothing.
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Sep 6, 2012 09:03
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I think I can share some of the more intriguing errors/general software weirdness screen shots that I've collected over the years. Here's a sample: Would it be bad form to dump ~30 of them into one post?
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Sep 6, 2012 11:42
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Sorry if this has been posted, but I forgot this abomination that remains in Windows 7 still, popping up after rebooting after having used msconfig to change startup settings: (sorry for the crappy JPG screenshot found online, can't be bothered to reboot to provoke it) A checkbox that says "Do X or Y"? WTF does it do then?
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Sep 6, 2012 13:44
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Yeah, 'questions' in some error messages can be awesome.   
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Sep 6, 2012 13:52
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Pilsner posted:Sorry if this has been posted, but I forgot this abomination that remains in Windows 7 still, popping up after rebooting after having used msconfig to change startup settings: If checked, do neither. How is that hard to understand?
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Sep 6, 2012 13:57
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omeg posted:I think I can share some of the more intriguing errors/general software weirdness screen shots that I've collected over the years. Here's a sample:
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Sep 6, 2012 16:02
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SavageMessiah posted:If checked, do neither. How is that hard to understand? It's always been a mystery to me as to why that message is needed at all. Ever.
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Sep 6, 2012 16:18
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One of the applications I admin decided to throw this email Nazi error on me a few days ago. Mind you what I was doing had nothing to do with email in any way, shape, or form.
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Sep 6, 2012 16:23
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omeg posted:I think I can share some of the more intriguing errors/general software weirdness screen shots that I've collected over the years. Here's a sample:
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Sep 6, 2012 16:25
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fleshweasel posted:maybe put it in an imgur gallery and link it Sure. http://imgur.com/a/3Eaoy I have probably equal number of screens in Polish, but it would be difficult to convey why they are funny because it's mostly bad translation.
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Sep 6, 2012 16:27
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omeg posted:Sure. The Bloodlines error is what happens if you run on a system with more than 4GB RAM without installing the 64 bit patch.
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Sep 7, 2012 08:44
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SavageMessiah posted:If checked, do neither. How is that hard to understand? Then it should have said "nor", not "or".
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Sep 7, 2012 09:09
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Pilsner posted:Then it should have said "nor", not "or". Or works logically to mean "one of these or both". The sentence makes perfect sense. If you want to blame anything, blame English for having conjunctions with multiple logical uses. "I must do this or that" doesn't preclude doing "This and that", even though "I must do this and that" does preclude doing only one of the two. "And" and "Or" do not have a perfectly reciprocal relationship.  .edit: And thinking about it, it's doubly unsurprising that a software company would phrase the message that way, since a programmer would be quite used to using Or in its perfectly logical sense.
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Sep 7, 2012 13:25
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Is there even an easy english way to state XOR?
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Sep 7, 2012 14:37
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One of A or B? Either A or B? Those are the best I can think of.
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Sep 7, 2012 14:56
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Orcs and Ostriches posted:One of A or B? This works, or you can say "A or B but not both".
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Sep 7, 2012 15:32
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Or is already setup as XOR by context in many situations. The lunch special is you get a free soup or salad with a meal. You aren't getting a free soup and salad if you ask. You could ask for a free soup and order a side salad sure. Language has context and human logic, code does not hence the need for XOR. I'm not sure if other languages have this since I'm not a linguist but if the poster has errors in other languages I'm going to assume English may not be their first language and be why they found it funny when it is not (well text wise). The actual error is kind of funny because its pretty pointless to tell they user "Hey! You did this thing 5 minutes ago! Check this box and hit okay or I'm going to display this message again!"
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Sep 7, 2012 19:13
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pixaal posted:Or is already setup as XOR by context in many situations. The lunch special is you get a free soup or salad with a meal. You aren't getting a free soup and salad if you ask. You could ask for a free soup and order a side salad sure. The lunch special price is only valid if you spend $5 or purchase a drink. Or seems to only be XOR with choices; anything with conditions tend to be or.
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Sep 7, 2012 19:21
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Someone on Reddit submitted this gem yesterday:
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Sep 7, 2012 19:46
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pixaal posted:Or is already setup as XOR by context in many situations. The lunch special is you get a free soup or salad with a meal. You aren't getting a free soup and salad if you ask. You could ask for a free soup and order a side salad sure. Some would argue that this is not so much "different meaning in context" as "Many English speakers have a terrible grasp of their own language and speak with a great deal of imprecision." But your second point is taken, that window is annoying because I know full well I just made changes.
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Sep 7, 2012 20:06
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Not an error message per-say, but I was troubleshooting an Exchange server and ran across this gem: You mean to tell me there isn't a single external hard drive to be found at the dawn of the 17th century? This is affecting production!
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Sep 12, 2012 01:51
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tjl posted:Not an error message per-say, but I was troubleshooting an Exchange server and ran across this gem: Wait how is this even possible. Time 0 is the last moment in 1969.
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Sep 12, 2012 01:55
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pixaal posted:Wait how is this even possible. Time 0 is the last moment in 1969. 
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pixaal posted:Wait how is this even possible. Time 0 is the last moment in 1969. Some systems use a different point in time for Time 0. It's actually going to cause an issue for certain software toward the end of the 21st century when the formula they currently use for conversion from the other time to the more standard 1969 calculation will no longer give correct results.
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Sep 12, 2012 02:35
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pixaal posted:Wait how is this even possible. Time 0 is the last moment in 1969. 
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Sep 12, 2012 02:40
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pixaal posted:Wait how is this even possible. Time 0 is the last moment in 1969. The epoch is January 1, 1601 for NTFS, COBOL, and Win32/Win64. Other notable epochs besides the UNIX 1970 one are: January 1, 1753 for MS SQL server November 17, 1858 for VMS, United States Naval Observatory, and several astronomy related things
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^^^^ It's time-travel ready!LeftistMuslimObama posted:Some systems use a different point in time for Time 0. It's actually going to cause an issue for certain software toward the end of the 21st century when the formula they currently use for conversion from the other time to the more standard 1969 calculation will no longer give correct results.
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Small White Dragon posted:Personally, I'm looking forward to Y2K38. I'm retired by then.  Edit, no I'm not. 
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omeg posted:
Why not? That's how long it'll take to save and load models your Engineers eventually produce if they start using the FEA capabilities (never mind actually running for solutions)!
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Oct 1, 2012 16:03
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 Not really an error message but it still bothers me.
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Factory Factory posted:
Apple probably have a patent on doing something when you plug your phone into a computer.
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About 10 years ago I was installing a DOS based voicemail by a company called Telrad and the installer kept crashing. The error message that would come up was "Telrad is always the best". If you pressed any key on the keyboard it would just print it again on the screen. When I called tech support and told them the guy must of laughed for 10 minutes.
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This particular one (may have been mentioned already) always slays me - mainly because it's not usually a restriction causing it, it's normally from modified registry keys and/or a default browser change: Have seen this a lot in the past when Opera or Chrome are installed and set as default browsers, but instead of MS saying "hey, change your default browser", it spits this out.
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From a 'basic' SBS box @ work.  Turned out to be bad RAM.
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Ozz81 posted:This particular one (may have been mentioned already) always slays me - mainly because it's not usually a restriction causing it, it's normally from modified registry keys and/or a default browser change: Funny thing: I've had almost that exact message appear when trying to install an MSI package that didn't download completely. It's like that's the fallback exception handler they chose for everything.
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LorneReams posted:Is there even an easy english way to state XOR?
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Lowclock posted:You could also call it modulo 2 addition? Not that it would help anyone who didn't know what XOR was in the first place.
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