The worst error message ever, ever
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GL_Terminator wrote:
depuration
Very odd word to use, since it's meaning refers to being cleansed or purified. :)
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A bad synonym for the "garbage collection" phase of memory management perhaps?
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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"
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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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 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.
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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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"
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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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"
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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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!
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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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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"
Something bad happened
with a picture of little beasties munching on the innards of some computers :laugh:
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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"
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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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"
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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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"
My personal favorite, encountered only once while trying to open a project file in Borland C++Builder 6, it went something like; "We were unable to process your request. Reason: The window does not have scroll bars." Yup, apparently scroll bars are an essential part of loading the file.
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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
Yeah, but Windows took that one just one step further... I recall seeing the BSOD on my friend's computer, and I think it was Win95. It just read: "It seems you have not plugged in a monitor. Please plug in a monitor and press a key to continue." In fact, pressing a key wouldn't have done anything, but what has been troubling me for all this years now: HOW did the programmer meant this message - if it's conditions were really met - would be transported to the user? Magic Crystal Ball? Needless to say, _we_ saw the message because there _was_ a monitor plugged in.
That seems to be a PEBKAC problem, Sir. Why don't you go and fetch a coffee while I handle the operation?
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Delphi 5: "Catastrophic error." in a single message box with a ok button. Simple! Amazing! :))
Might as well have replaced the "ok" with "panic"... :laugh:
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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"
I remember a Win 95 message when connecting to a NT4 Server as you try to attach to a share. Something along the lines: "I can't log you in, as you may have already logged off"
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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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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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HA! Good Question. The circumstances were such that it really should have never happened. It was one of those "when a user clicks x and Venus is in retrograde" scenarios. So to answer you question: Once After that, I plugged the logic hole and put a "friendly" error in its place.
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Some of the latest bad error messages we've seen here are "An unknow error has occurred" (yep, with the spelling mistake) Another From a M$ app logged this useful message to the windows event log "The" I think that's my favorite.