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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Serious Hardware/Software Crap > The Zen of Error Messages
 
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Rhymenoserous
May 23, 2008

PopeOnARope posted:

Let's not forget the Granddaddy of the error messages:

Lp0: Printer on fire

I also see plenty of fuckity ones when going to update Dell BIOSes without elevating the process. Usually something along the lines of "Warning, your privledge is not enough. Acquire more privledge and retry"

I just got this picture of some office lady primly nodding her head at the error message, putting on a Tiara then clicking "Retry"

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Rhymenoserous
May 23, 2008

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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Rhymenoserous
May 23, 2008

rscott posted:

It's the headquarters/practice space for a Bob Seger cover band.

Naw man, the Bob Seger's band was talking about THAT place.

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Rhymenoserous
May 23, 2008

sanchez posted:

Makes perfect sense to me as well, it failed the check "Computer is not a domain controller"

Funny that it didn't check that right at the beginning before installing a bunch of .NET stuff though.

So you're the one writing error messages like this. Come the revolution you are going to be the first up against the wall.

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