Comment On Pop-up Potpourri: Episode IV

I think the first one might be a "Pop vs Soda vs Coke" kind of thing.

I've had that terabyte problem happen to me before. I could swear I sent it in to Alex, but maybe not. It's only happened with one CD, and it's consistent every time I use it on most computers. In any event, here are the screenshots:

Pic 1

Pic 2

Funny that none of these seem to be on OS X. :)

The 2nd one has nice window decorations, where can you get them?

Unfortunatly this episode VI doesn't give any new hope about the quality of software out there, does it?

Manni:

I've had that terabyte problem happen to me before.
I could swear I sent it in to Alex, but maybe not. It's only
happened with one CD, and it's consistent every time I use it
on most computers.

I have had the problem only once, when my memory stick failed.  I feel moorose that the large capacity was not real.



Sincerely,



Gene Wirchenko

AJR:

Unfortunatly this episode VI doesn't give any new hope about the quality of software out there, does it?

Unfortunately, Episode VI wasn't a new hope anyway.

AJR:

Unfortunatly this episode VI doesn't give any new hope about the quality of software out there, does it?

If I didn't know better, i'd say you were making a Star Wars refference (Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope).

Anonymous:

Funny that none of these seem to be on OS X. :)

Obviously OS X users are letting us down by not posting their potpourri.



Sincerely,



Gene Wirchenko

Firezilla? Never heard that one before.

I came accross this in my adventures today.  Got enough for a manual pot-pourri?





http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/designer/supporting_doc/des10g_9046/cmnhlp72/messages/ora_messages.htm

ORA-00439, 00000, "feature not enabled: %s"
Cause:  The specified feature is not enabled.
Action: Do not attempt to use this feature.

frosty:

AJR:

Unfortunatly this episode VI
doesn't give any new hope about the quality of software out there, does
it?

Unfortunately, Episode VI wasn't a new hope anyway.

Anonymous:

AJR:

Unfortunatly this episode VI doesn't give any new hope about the quality of software out there, does it?

If I didn't know better, i'd say you were making a Star Wars refference (Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope).

Damn tpyos[sic], why oh why won't this forum let me hide my mistake with the eidt button?

If England and Australia would adopt United States English (which is obviously superior), we wouldn't have WTFs like the first one.

And now, I invite you all to guess which of my typos are intentional,
and which are simply a result of my bad typing.  (My excuse being
that I'm using the laptop ATM, because the other computer is broken.)

Maybe you and the other three OS X users should start posting.

Tom:

Firezilla? Never heard that one before.

I usually call it Firetruck (BEEP BEEP), one of my friends coined that and even drew fanart for it. =D

Anonymous:

Funny that none of these seem to be on OS X. :)

One day they'll start making actual software for OS X.  Then maybe we'll see some posts.

Anonymous:

Funny that none of these seem to be on OS X. :)

OSX users are are just used to messed up dialogs.  After all,
every single one has the cancel button in the wrong place. ;-)

ammoQ:

The 2nd one has nice window decorations, where can you get them?

I think he's using Style XP - http://www.tgtsoft.com

JohnO:

If England and Australia would adopt United States
English (which is obviously superior), we wouldn't have WTFs like the
first one.

No way is Merkin English better.  Think of all the poor little
"u"s that would go unused and unloved were it not for British
spellings. :P

JohnO:

If England and Australia would adopt United States English (which is obviously superior), we wouldn't have WTFs like the first one.

Classic!

I usually like to tell English people that they have a lot of nerve naming their country for our language.  :)

AJR:

Damn tpyos[sic], why oh why won't this forum let me hide my mistake with the eidt button?

The edit button is only for decoration.  In the code, there is a comment next to it reading:



// TODO: Implement!

It actually took me some time to figure out what 'Firezilla' was. 
I have heard of Filezilla, an FTP client and server, and Firefox (nee
Firebird, nee Phoenix), and Mozilla, the browser/news/email
suite.  Oh well, I get it now, Internet Explorer did a stupid.



This post is pi  approved.

I had a bit of trouble figuring out the email filter message.  I
couldn't understand which way the email was going - in or out.  I
guess that the WTF is that the filter deleted a .zip file because it
was unsafe, and suggested zipping it instead to make it safer?

Anonymous:

Funny that none of these seem to be on OS X. :)

That's because they couldn't figure out how to Alt-PrintScreen.

Meddler:

Anonymous:

Funny that none of these seem to be on OS X. :)

That's because they couldn't figure out how to Alt-PrintScreen.

Very true, but those pesky Mac users can figure out some
clover/meta/open apple key chord that's equivalent.  This site is
filled with developers.  I can't believe _some_ of you don't have
some good Adobe or Macromedia dialogs to share with us on OS X.

The TB dialog may just seem to be an error in the dialog itself. However, a long time ago we encountered a problem with running the daily backup, which could not be completed as the tape was too small to hold all files. Investigating the problem showed that a Windows compressed folder somehow got into some loop while compressing a 55 kB file, resulting in a 7.5 EB compressed file.

Of course, the file could never have been 7.5 EB on disk, but surely the file system was reporting that very same file size to the tape backup program. Sleep well when relying on your files being compressed in a reversable manner...

More Erroneous Errors at http://members.chello.nl/a.j.dol/

I gotta give MS credit for really thinking ahead with the file and disk
sizes.  One time I had a corrupted NTFS volume under NT 4 that
reported the size of a file as 3.2 XB (on a 1 GB partition no
less).  That's Exabytes, each of which is one thousand
terabytes.  I right clicked on it and selected properties and the
actual size it reported in bytes contained 16 digits and five commas.

Anonymous:

The TB dialog may just seem to be an error in the dialog itself. However, a long time ago we encountered a problem with running the daily backup, which could not be completed as the tape was too small to hold all files. Investigating the problem showed that a Windows compressed folder somehow got into some loop while compressing a 55 kB file, resulting in a 7.5 EB compressed file.

Of course, the file could never have been 7.5 EB on disk, but surely the file system was reporting that very same file size to the tape backup program. Sleep well when relying on your files being compressed in a reversable manner...

More Erroneous Errors at http://members.chello.nl/a.j.dol/

Whenever a piece of storage media is reporting the wrong size, it just means that the file system is borked and reporting the wrong data. When yer computer opens up the media, it asks the media how much space is available, and the media responds, pulling the number from its allocation table (or whatever...this is often a FAT, thus Windows, problem). It doesn't actually try and check the media, and it doesn't give a damn about what number is reported, so you occasionally get WTFs.

 Just a basic write corruption error.

The WebEx one took me a minute to get, but it's the best one, along
with the developer who thought he was okay just
greater-than-or-equaling the number portion of the "how much RAM does
this system have" function.

Here is a minor one that I really like. (The link is from a googling. I don't know the guy.)

And after all of SourceSafe's other failings, my boss just doesn't see the case for switching to something else.

 

Man i'm sorry you work for such an idiot.... because SourceSafe has got
to be the crappiest SCM tool i've ever had to work with..

The capacity issue is common when the file-system index of the storage device is currupt. I think only way to recover is to reformat the drive. I've had a USB stick I bought (4 GB) which showed few TBs as available space according to Windows. But it's funny how/why Winodws shows TB space instead of displaying error message.

Manni:

I've had that terabyte problem happen to me before. I could swear I sent it in to Alex, but maybe not. It's only happened with one CD, and it's consistent every time I use it on most computers. In any event, here are the screenshots:

I have seen tricky CD images that use an "invalid" file listing on the CD to make them appear larger than they are. In one case I saw this on commercial software, as a cheap copy protection measure. In another case, the CD was specially constructed to allow you to install any of various flavors of Windows by having the file on the CD only once, even when the file was actually repeated across all the different Windows version directories...

There's even several programs to let you build CD's along these lines. UltraISO is one of them. The feature is usually called "optimize". Although some programs don't much like these sort of ISO files, CD burner programs have no issues with them.

good ones, the one about MS Word is funny, not really a WTF, but funny

missed the classic:

Keyboard not detected

press F1 to continue

 

The "Heroes of Might & Magic 4" entry looks like the programmers
used a signed integer for the amount of RAM during the comparison (but
NOT when displaying it on the screen, which is a minor WTF in and of
itself) - trying to put the value 2147483648 (2GB) into a signed 32-bit
integer makes it go negative (since the valid range is -2147483648
[-2GB] to 2147483647 [2GB-1]), and a negative number is certainly less
than 128MB.

Anonymous:

The capacity issue is common when the
file-system index of the storage device is currupt. I think only way to
recover is to reformat the drive. I've had a USB stick I bought (4 GB)
which showed few TBs as available space according to Windows. But it's
funny how/why Winodws shows TB space instead of displaying error
message.

Removable media (such as USB Flash Drives) typically use a FAT-based
file system (VFAT based on FAT16).  Sure, it's got bugs, but it
uses less overhead than the primary alternative.



There are sites which suggest that it is possible to troubleshoot and
correct many (if not all) FAT errors (e.g. see
users.iafrica.com/c/cq/cquirke/fixfat.htm )

BlackTigerX:

good ones, the one about MS Word is funny, not really a WTF, but funny

missed the classic:

Keyboard not detected

press F1 to continue

 

it should really read

Keyboard not detected

Add one and then

press F1 to continue

 but back in the day, bytes meant cash

and besides, we knew what it was on about

Abort, Retry, Fail ?

Anonymous:

The "Heroes of Might & Magic 4" entry looks like the programmers
used a signed integer for the amount of RAM during the comparison (but
NOT when displaying it on the screen, which is a minor WTF in and of
itself) - trying to put the value 2147483648 (2GB) into a signed 32-bit
integer makes it go negative (since the valid range is -2147483648
[-2GB] to 2147483647 [2GB-1]), and a negative number is certainly less
than 128MB.

Yep, hopefully that one is just a case of integer overflow.

Anonymous:

BlackTigerX:

good ones, the one about MS Word is funny, not really a WTF, but funny

missed the classic:

Keyboard not detected

press F1 to continue

 

it should really read

Keyboard not detected

Add one and then

press F1 to continue

 but back in the day, bytes meant cash

and besides, we knew what it was on about

Abort, Retry, Fail ?

Actually, since the hardware scan had passed, it meant nothing on most
boxes -- the keyboard you would have to have plugged in in order to
have an F1 to press would not be recognised until the power was cycled,
whereupon the keyboard would be recognised without pressing F1.



Oh -- the Word error is probably the result of pasting/typing code
rather than unbelievably bad spelling and grammar in plain English text.

I'm still trying to figure this one out... I thought XP was later than 95.

Anonymous:

Funny that none of these seem to be on OS X. :)

There's a website for Mac wierdness at [a link="http://www.error10.net/"]www.error10.net[/a]

Wow, that didn't work at all. Anyway, the website is www.error10.net. Mac users will just drag-n-drop it anyway.

Anonymous:

I'm still trying to figure this one out... I thought XP was later than 95.

Microsoft thinks that XP is later than 2000 and NT, 95 or later would mean 98/Millenium...

I've actually been through that one - I mean, I got that message, realized my keyboard wasn't plugged in, plugged it in, and pressed any key to continue. So the message is both paradoxical and useful.

Joel:

Anonymous:

I'm still trying to figure this one out... I thought XP was later than 95.

Microsoft thinks that XP is later than 2000 and NT, 95 or later would mean 98/Millenium...

That's likely indeed

reinpost:

I've actually been through that one - I mean, I got that message, realized my keyboard wasn't plugged in, plugged it in, and pressed any key to continue. So the message is both paradoxical and useful.

I tried that but couldn't find the "any" key... :s

Not really, since in 8088 - 80486 times (but even now, in most cases) you could plug your keyboard and look at it work anytime.

Made it more, and more, and more, and MORE times.



Samuele Gaggioli

ObySamKenoby:

Not really, since in 8088 - 80486 times (but even now, in most cases) you could plug your keyboard and look at it work anytime.

Made it more, and more, and more, and MORE times.



Samuele Gaggioli

haha, on the contrary. Once i plugged
in a keyboard to my comp when its live, i got a few sparks... and a
nice shock... a minor one lol

Given enough time and effort, I'm sure that someone can dechiper the "sensored" filename. You left some of the letters unprotected :-)