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  • C ChrisNic

    I prefer the old BIOS message "Keyboard not found. Press any key to continue"

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    BobJanova
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    This one actually makes sense, it makes sure you fixed the error (by plugging in a keyboard) before continuing.

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    • V Vasily Tserekh

      When I was at college i was forced to make a project with lazarus(a free Delphi IDE), Thi IDE is so wrong at so many levels that among other stuff that happened to me i received this error messsage "Oops the IDE has entered in depuration state(the ide freezed down) you only have to close it and wait for the worse"

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      robsonpg
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      Delphi 5: "Catastrophic error." in a single message box with a ok button. Simple! Amazing! :))

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      • V Vasily Tserekh

        When I was at college i was forced to make a project with lazarus(a free Delphi IDE), Thi IDE is so wrong at so many levels that among other stuff that happened to me i received this error messsage "Oops the IDE has entered in depuration state(the ide freezed down) you only have to close it and wait for the worse"

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        Konstardiy from Tbilisi
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        The worst message for me is no message at all: one time i got a error meeeage box with empty text, just error icon and "Error" caption with OK button. I don't remember where i got it, it was a log time ago, but this was the worst "error message i seen:)

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        • V Vasily Tserekh

          When I was at college i was forced to make a project with lazarus(a free Delphi IDE), Thi IDE is so wrong at so many levels that among other stuff that happened to me i received this error messsage "Oops the IDE has entered in depuration state(the ide freezed down) you only have to close it and wait for the worse"

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          Lost User
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          No mouse found message[^]

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          • V Vasily Tserekh

            When I was at college i was forced to make a project with lazarus(a free Delphi IDE), Thi IDE is so wrong at so many levels that among other stuff that happened to me i received this error messsage "Oops the IDE has entered in depuration state(the ide freezed down) you only have to close it and wait for the worse"

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            BrainiacV
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            Oracle 7

            Bad END statement

            The problem was, "Label not found," I guess since it found the END statement before finding the label, it was the END statement's fault. I used to wallpaper my cube with bad error messages from Oracle and a note saying what they really meant.

            Psychosis at 10 Film at 11 Those who do not remember the past, are doomed to repeat it. Those who do not remember the past, cannot build upon it.

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            • V Vasily Tserekh

              When I was at college i was forced to make a project with lazarus(a free Delphi IDE), Thi IDE is so wrong at so many levels that among other stuff that happened to me i received this error messsage "Oops the IDE has entered in depuration state(the ide freezed down) you only have to close it and wait for the worse"

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              applogic
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              Watermark, a late 90's content management product, had an error message that read... "Thank You Sir, may I have another?"

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              • V Vasily Tserekh

                When I was at college i was forced to make a project with lazarus(a free Delphi IDE), Thi IDE is so wrong at so many levels that among other stuff that happened to me i received this error messsage "Oops the IDE has entered in depuration state(the ide freezed down) you only have to close it and wait for the worse"

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                Monalot
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                A few years ago I was developing a financial app. I asked my boss what the program should do if a particular condition arose. He replied that it couldn't happen so, don't worry about it. I put the following message in the program: "If you get this message, call my bosses name and home phone number". He received middle of the night calls for years.

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                • L Lost User

                  That's cute. Reminds me of one from a cryptic UNIX GUI in the 1990s:

                  +----------------------+
                  | Error 0 |
                  +----------------------+
                  | |
                  | No error text for "" |
                  | |
                  +----------------------+

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                  Peter R Fletcher
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                  DEC's RT-11 OS (I'm showing my age) also had a text-based Help system. You typed: 'Help [Command Name]' at the command line, and you got a screen of text, usually with things like command line options. If [Command Name] was not recognised, you got back the single line: 'There is no Help for [Command Name]'. The programmer had a sense of humor. If you typed: 'Help Me', you got back: 'There is no Help for you'!

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                  • P Peter R Fletcher

                    DEC's RT-11 OS (I'm showing my age) also had a text-based Help system. You typed: 'Help [Command Name]' at the command line, and you got a screen of text, usually with things like command line options. If [Command Name] was not recognised, you got back the single line: 'There is no Help for [Command Name]'. The programmer had a sense of humor. If you typed: 'Help Me', you got back: 'There is no Help for you'!

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                    Bminas
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                    I remember that! They also had error number 69 - no path to partner in their RSX system. Early networking.

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                    • C Chris Meech

                      GL_Terminator wrote:

                      depuration

                      Very odd word to use, since it's meaning refers to being cleansed or purified. :)

                      Chris Meech I am Canadian. [heard in a local bar] In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is. [Yogi Berra] posting about Crystal Reports here is like discussing gay marriage on a catholic church’s website.[Nishant Sivakumar]

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                      Gregg Lobdell
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                      A bad synonym for the "garbage collection" phase of memory management perhaps?

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                      • V Vasily Tserekh

                        When I was at college i was forced to make a project with lazarus(a free Delphi IDE), Thi IDE is so wrong at so many levels that among other stuff that happened to me i received this error messsage "Oops the IDE has entered in depuration state(the ide freezed down) you only have to close it and wait for the worse"

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                        KChandos
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                        One of my favorite error messages comes from the mainframe world in the Natural environment from Software AG. Natural makes the attempt to not only tell you what's wrong, but what you may be able to do to fix the problem. I don't remember the exact text of the message but it was something along the lines of "an error has occurred". The memorable part is the suggested fix: "Check program and correct".

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                        • V Vasily Tserekh

                          When I was at college i was forced to make a project with lazarus(a free Delphi IDE), Thi IDE is so wrong at so many levels that among other stuff that happened to me i received this error messsage "Oops the IDE has entered in depuration state(the ide freezed down) you only have to close it and wait for the worse"

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                          kmoorevs
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                          My first computer book ever was call "Sad Macs, Bombs, and Other Disasters". I had inherited a powermac 6100 with system 7.5. I really enjoyed all the bomb icons complete with an error number...how informative!

                          "Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse

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                          • B BillW33

                            I have seen some really bad error messages, but I haven't seen any worse than that one. X|

                            Just because the code works, it doesn't mean that it is good code.

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                            Mikel Taylor
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                            While a greenie, the following code was (accidentally) released into production: Messagebox: Title "Oops" Message: "Mikel Sucks as a programmer since this should never happen."

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                            • V Vasily Tserekh

                              When I was at college i was forced to make a project with lazarus(a free Delphi IDE), Thi IDE is so wrong at so many levels that among other stuff that happened to me i received this error messsage "Oops the IDE has entered in depuration state(the ide freezed down) you only have to close it and wait for the worse"

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                              Member 4219030
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                              I put in an error message during a late night debug session: "Oops, the XXX filter is corrupted. You must now sacrifice a black goat over the keyboard at midnight to restore settings". Then I forgot about it thinking it will never happen. This was my first real job as an embedded systems programmer and I was sure this would never hit. Right. Somehow, the code made it to production. We got a call from tech support about 6 months later who did not find it amusing. My boss remembered it to the day I left the company.

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                              • V Vasily Tserekh

                                When I was at college i was forced to make a project with lazarus(a free Delphi IDE), Thi IDE is so wrong at so many levels that among other stuff that happened to me i received this error messsage "Oops the IDE has entered in depuration state(the ide freezed down) you only have to close it and wait for the worse"

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                                I explore code
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                                It may not be the worst i have ever seen but it certainly is amusing. Something must have cocked up the Youtube server and this was the error message I got: "Sorry! Something went wrong. A team of highly trained monkeys has been dispatched to deal with the situation. If you see them, show them this information" and then there were some gibberish alpha-numeric strings about half a page long. I literally laughed out loud and posted it on my Facebook profile as well for my mates to have a laugh at. And guess what?? they did!.... :D

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                                • K kmoorevs

                                  My first computer book ever was call "Sad Macs, Bombs, and Other Disasters". I had inherited a powermac 6100 with system 7.5. I really enjoyed all the bomb icons complete with an error number...how informative!

                                  "Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse

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                                  kmoorevs wrote:

                                  My first computer book ever was call "Sad Macs, Bombs, and Other Disasters". I had inherited a powermac 6100 with system 7.5. I really enjoyed all the bomb icons complete with an error number...how informative!

                                  My favourite error was a pre-OS X Mac bomb-type message "An unexpected error has occurred because an error has occurred". Genius :)

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                                  • C ChrisNic

                                    I prefer the old BIOS message "Keyboard not found. Press any key to continue"

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                                    jsc42
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                                    MS-DOS also had a "Screen not found" error message, which no one ever saw because it was meant to be displayed on the screen

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                                    • V Vasily Tserekh

                                      When I was at college i was forced to make a project with lazarus(a free Delphi IDE), Thi IDE is so wrong at so many levels that among other stuff that happened to me i received this error messsage "Oops the IDE has entered in depuration state(the ide freezed down) you only have to close it and wait for the worse"

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                                      bVagadishnu
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                                      Something bad happened

                                      with a picture of little beasties munching on the innards of some computers :laugh:

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                                      • V Vasily Tserekh

                                        When I was at college i was forced to make a project with lazarus(a free Delphi IDE), Thi IDE is so wrong at so many levels that among other stuff that happened to me i received this error messsage "Oops the IDE has entered in depuration state(the ide freezed down) you only have to close it and wait for the worse"

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                                        Asday
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                                        I remember reading about a program someone was debugging with message boxes, and he made them all tsundere, to ease the tedium. Sadly, he shipped it without removing all of the messages. 2 weeks later, he dealt with a phonecall from a client who quoted: "I-It's not like I wanted to give you data, desuwa~, I just made to much!"

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                                        • V Vasily Tserekh

                                          When I was at college i was forced to make a project with lazarus(a free Delphi IDE), Thi IDE is so wrong at so many levels that among other stuff that happened to me i received this error messsage "Oops the IDE has entered in depuration state(the ide freezed down) you only have to close it and wait for the worse"

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                                          KP Lee
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                                          I was pushing the limits of an algorithm to find the limit of it's recursive processing. Then I put in a try/catch to gently and safely bring the app down when it failed. This isn't a bad error message, it's a failure in expectations. When it blew, it was supposed to write a formatted message in the catch block. When you get a stack overflow error/message, the app shuts down, no catch processing, no final executions, you're done, you're out. I thought try/catch was supposed to always catch failures.

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