Comment On Pop-up Potpourri: ?????(p???? Edition

Clearly "Avast" is the mark of pirate coder.

Got to love those pesky expensive maintenance fees on the eval versions of Windows servers.

The Rational Rose error should have said "Rosebud", instead.

 

Never mind!

The best part about the Rational Rose crash listed above is that after it happens, the application would refuse to close.  The only thing you could do is end the process in task manager.

Awww, Aron M beat me to it.  I had to quickly do a Google to see
that avast![1] is indeed a piece of software.  I thought that perhaps
the software had determined that it was being run on September 19[2]



As it is, I'm sorely disappointed that there's not software that does this determination and modifies it's dialog boxes accordingly.


I be finished cleaning the hard drive! Arhhhh!


The files in the trash have walked the plank! Arhhh!


[1] http://www.avast.com
[2] http://www.talklikeapirate.com

Matt Damon!

sinistral:

Awww, Aron M beat me to it.  I had to quickly do a Google to see that avast![1] is indeed a piece of software.  I thought that perhaps the software had determined that it was being run on September 19[2]

As it is, I'm sorely disappointed that there's not software that does this determination and modifies it's dialog boxes accordingly.
I be finished cleaning the hard drive! Arhhhh!
The files in the trash have walked the plank! Arhhh!
[1] http://www.avast.com [2] http://www.talklikeapirate.com

 

And the funny thing is that I JUST requested a trial copy of this for my company!

Disgruntled DBA:

The Rational Rose error should have said "Rosebud", instead.

Damn. I was sure I was gonna be the first with that joke. :)

avast must mean "can't do it, or maybe I shouldn't, but I did, haha!"

look at the whole message, which goes something like: Cannot find file.  File corrupted? Operation completed.  Profit.

 

 

Well, I've never had an issue with Avast. It's always been fantastic for me. Harr.

My office-mates wonder what on earth I'm doing when I laugh so hard at
these. Made me remember a couple from some previous projects, which
will hopefully be up at the next pop-up potpourri...



You know, I miss the days of the old Mac lab with LC040s (in color!)
with the old Ambrosia games. They had errors like "Error -53. We'd tell
you what that means, but we don't know either."  You have to love
developers who have a good time with their platform (back then it was
OS 7.5 or so, if memory serves).



By the way, this thread finally got me to register.

Alex Papadimoulis:

When dying a painful, unexpected death, some programs shout out "Catastrophic, Unexpected Error!" Travis Ellis found that Rational Rose goes out in dignity, subtly mentioning it's name as it kicks the bucket ...

Not particularly informative, but at least it doesn't sing when it goes.

"Daisy, daisy, give me your answer do..."

--RA

Clearly the programmer forgot to include the following:



try {

    // do some stuff

}

catch (????????P???????????????w???????????E???????????7??????Exception e) {

    throw e;

}

And WTF is up with a default font of Times?  The real WTF here is... ah, fuck it.

Anyone ever catch an exception with the message: "There was no error." ?

GoatCheez:

Anyone ever catch an exception with the message: "There was no error." ?

No, but I have coded where an error had to happen in a statement.  If one did not, that was an error in itself.  In MBASIC and GW-BASIC, the way to tell if a file existed was to rename it as itself.  This resulted in error 53 (File not found) or error 58 (File already exists).  (I suppose it would be possible for other errors (say, out of memory) to occur, but I never saw any.)  What should not happen is for no error to occur.

Sincerely,

Gene Wirchenko

Anonymous:

sinistral:

Awww, Aron M beat me
to it.  I had to quickly do a Google to see that avast![1] is
indeed a piece of software.  I thought that perhaps the software
had determined that it was being run on September 19[2]

As it
is, I'm sorely disappointed that there's not software that does this
determination and modifies it's dialog boxes accordingly.
I be finished cleaning the hard drive! Arhhhh!
The files in the trash have walked the plank! Arhhh!
[1] http://www.avast.com [2] http://www.talklikeapirate.com

 

And the funny thing is that I JUST requested a trial copy of this for my company!

Our company uses Avast for 2 years or so, no problems so far. Works
fine without eating 85% of your system resources (can you hear me,
Symantec?)

I do alot of testing for our controls. So, for alot of the tests, I expect exceptions, and then I check to make sure they are the right ones. If one doesn't get thrown, the test fails. If the wrong exception gets thrown, the test fails. This is normal. If you use exceptions these days for logic flow though(finding out if a file exists), then that is a major nono. I am going to start taking screenshots of some of the dialogs I get almost daily. My favorite, is sometimes calling VB6's SavePicture (with a valid picture and filename string) results in an error of Out of memory. Even though my memory watching program, and task manager show that I have well over 400 megs of memory available.

I've seen that last one (or at least something like it) a few times.  It looks very silly, but it does happen for a good reason.  The Product Updates stuff is run from an IE component, but guess what the installation wants to update?  A better idea may have been to demand a reboot, I guess.  At least this method gives the user the choice.

In Novell's defense (did I just say that???) they probably figure if
they're taking the time to build their entire email client in Java and
deploy it under Linux, anyone who has a serious problem with it will just fix it themselves. Who needs tech support when your primary audience for a product is the same as the people who programmed the product in the first place?

sinistral:

[1] http://www.avast.com
[2] http://www.talklikeapirate.com

Amusingly enough, a google search for "avast" turns up  [1] and [2] as the top hits, in that order.

tmountjr:

In Novell's defense (did I just say that???)
they probably figure if
they're taking the time to build their entire email client in Java and
deploy it under Linux, anyone who has a serious problem with it will
just fix it themselves. Who needs tech support when your primary
audience for a product is the same as the people who programmed the
product in the first place?

Experience shows that products which are open-sourced when they are
already (almost) finished do not attract too many supporters from the
open-source community; in many cases, they are still maintained by the
original full-paid staff of the company that created the program in the
first place.

Anyway, who need yet-another mail client for Linux? AFAIK Evolution (an Outlook-Clone) is already able to connect to GroupWise.

Gives a bluescreen at the "end of trial period" to "prevent further damage"? Hmmmmm yes...

Then, aside of the obvious wrongness in the other pics...

Why did the GroupWise folks think putting the relevant information to the window title was a good idea in the first place? I've seen this in a couple of places. Window titles aren't status lines or message areas. Window titles are meant to identify the windows, not pass on relevant information - the window contents are meant to do that.

Also, don't beg "please don't close this window". The dumb users are going to do that anyway and get mad if that messes everything up, no might in the world is going to prevent that. Disable the close box if that's so important.

sinistral:

Awww, Aron M beat me to it.  I had to quickly do a Google to see
that avast![1] is indeed a piece of software.  I thought that perhaps
the software had determined that it was being run on September 19[2]



As it is, I'm sorely disappointed that there's not software that does
this determination and modifies it's dialog boxes accordingly.


I be finished cleaning the hard drive! Arhhhh!


The files in the trash have walked the plank! Arhhh!


[1] http://www.avast.com
[2] http://www.talklikeapirate.com

It could have said "Thy memory is corrupt, fair thee warned, be thee, says I!"

Word's Safe Mode!

 http://www.prvsoftware.ca/cs/blogs/mikes_dump/archive/2005/12/10/258.aspx

 

Thanks for the compilation. Always makes my day.

My favorite is the END_OF_NT.

"if problems continues, disable or uninstall..."

Alright... I'll give you all...  a free bug !

On all versions of Windows!

 

Supose you have a file named "wtf.txt" on the desktop.

Open the best text editor named NOTEPAD.exe (or a better one if you have it...)

Make a "Save as..."

Now supose you don't want to replace the file named WTF.TXT... which is a serious thing...

Hit F2 key, to rename the file WTF.TXT to DONT_REPLACE_MY_FILE_WTF.TXT

Save the file!

Note: You saved the file as WTF.TXT

 

P.S.: You have won the day... your WTF.TXT was replaced with the new contents, you have lost the old file...

BIG WTF ...

 

 

 

"Open the best text editor named NOTEPAD.exe (or a better one if you have" it...)



Notepad. . .    best text editor. . .       WTF

Anonymous:

"Open the best text editor named NOTEPAD.exe (or a better one if you have" it...)

Notepad. . .    best text editor. . .       WTF

Never had such a silly problem with VIM... it asks if I want to overwrite the previous file.

The problem is not notepad, it's the windows File dialog btw.

Drak

Anonymous:

sinistral:

Awww, Aron M beat me to it.  I had to quickly do a Google to see that avast![1] is indeed a piece of software.  I thought that perhaps the software had determined that it was being run on September 19[2]

As it is, I'm sorely disappointed that there's not software that does this determination and modifies it's dialog boxes accordingly.
I be finished cleaning the hard drive! Arhhhh!
The files in the trash have walked the plank! Arhhh!
[1] http://www.avast.com [2] http://www.talklikeapirate.com

And the funny thing is that I JUST requested a trial copy of this for my company!

Take it easy :) I've been a (very happy) Avast! user for almost an year now and have never ever complained about it (except for that funny dialog which poped up only once) ;)

Cheers,
Stoyan

XoK:

Open the best text editor named NOTEPAD.exe (or a better one if you have it...)

Make a "Save as..."

I did this, passing "wtf.txt" as an argument to notepad.exe, but when I
hit the "Save as..." option on the File menu, I got an error dialog
that said: "Common Dialog error (0x3002)".



That has to be at least as much of a WTF as any of the ones in today's submission!



How badly do you have to bungle your OS before your default text editor can't even open a "Save As" dialog box???



(Note: I don't have any other problems that I can detect - everything
else works fine.  I'm running Windows XP 2002 SP2.  Other
applications can do "Save As"...)



I guess it could have been worse - instead of the "OK" button it could
have suggested "Yes"/"No", or "OK"/"Cancel", or some other equally
invalid combination.

It apears the rose one switched the title and body of the message box.

sinistral:

As it is, I'm sorely disappointed that there's not software that does this determination and modifies it's dialog boxes accordingly.

http://www.2kgames.com/index.php?p=games&title=piratespc

 

Why didn't I think of making all my errors in pirate vernacular?

"Ahoy, matey! Ye have not the rights to access the bloomin' file!"

"A flaggin of ale to ye if ye be wise enough to enter a social security number in the King's proper format."

"Avast! Can't connect to the server"

"Shiver me timbers! A user with this name already exists!"

"What be ye thinkin'? This customer has orders and cannot be deleted!"

www.lamecode.com

stevekj:

XoK:

Open the best text editor named NOTEPAD.exe (or a better one if you have it...)

Make a "Save as..."

I did this, passing "wtf.txt" as an argument to notepad.exe, but when I
hit the "Save as..." option on the File menu, I got an error dialog
that said: "Common Dialog error (0x3002)".



That has to be at least as much of a WTF as any of the ones in today's submission!



How badly do you have to bungle your OS before your default text editor can't even open a "Save As" dialog box???



(Note: I don't have any other problems that I can detect - everything
else works fine.  I'm running Windows XP 2002 SP2.  Other
applications can do "Save As"...)



I guess it could have been worse - instead of the "OK" button it could
have suggested "Yes"/"No", or "OK"/"Cancel", or some other equally
invalid combination.

I'm pretty sure this isn't a wtf, just confusing. The Open/Save As dialog box allows for common file operations such as moving, renaming and deleting a file. What actually happens with the problem Xok is mentioning for a file dontwrite.txt is:

1) The original file gets renamed to to newname.txt via the change in the Save As dialog. If the Save As dialog is closed, you file now has a new name
2) By either selecting or typing this name into the Save As window, you've just authorized overwriting your newly-named file

2) By either selecting or typing this name into the Save As window, you've just authorized overwriting your newly-named file

 

Ah, but you don't select the name.. and in the 'file' dropdown/textbox it still gives the old name, except it will save as the new name. If it changed the name there, it would be confusing, now it's a WTF.

Drak

It was a joke :)

Anonymous:

"Open the best text editor named NOTEPAD.exe (or a better one if you have" it...)

Notepad. . .    best text editor. . .       WTF

I'll try to explain myself better... (English is not my native language)

Imagine the following:

You want to make a "Save as", you do it normally as you always do... but the filename you really want already exists and your so lazy you don't want to cancel the dialog box!

So... you have the following options:

1 - Open Explorer, go to the folder and rename the file, so that you, do to not replace the older one!

2 - Use the dialog box... click once over the file, hit F2, rename the file!

3 - Use the dialog box... click once over the file, hit CTRL+X, go to another folder, CTRL+V, to move the file! Go to the folder you want to make the "Save as".

What I am talking about is the case 2, even if you rename the file and click "Save"... you replaced the older file!

 

It's a bug very hard to see! So hard... Microsoft didn't solve it yet! LOL :)

It's like the "now" well-known bug create a folder named CON

If anyone wants to see what I am talking about, and can I send an email with an .PNG!

 

Drop me an email to:

robccsilva ---at--- gmail com

 

------------- TEST IT YOURSELF -----------

Supose you have a file named "wtf.txt" on the desktop.

Open the best text editor named NOTEPAD.exe (or a better one if you have it...)

Make a "Save as..."

Now supose you don't want to replace the file named WTF.TXT... which is a serious thing...

Hit F2 key, to rename the file WTF.TXT to DONT_REPLACE_MY_FILE_WTF.TXT

Save the file!

Note: You saved the file as WTF.TXT

 

P.S.: You have won the day... your WTF.TXT was replaced with the new contents, you have lost the old file...

BIG WTF ...

Re the "end of evaluation blue screen", I ran into that while consulting for a System Test lab a few years back. The lab had around 80 Windows boxes which alll were mistakenly installed from an MSDN evaluation disk over a few day period. As a result, the first (surprising) blue screen was quickly followed by a second, a third, etc. Quite funny in hindsight.

If (if) == true then;

While(if);

Do(if);





This isn't in C, but it is close enough for you to understand

bob:

Why didn't I think of making all my errors in pirate vernacular?"Ahoy, matey! Ye have not the rights to access the bloomin' file!""A flaggin of ale to ye if ye be wise enough to enter a social security number in the King's proper format.""Avast! Can't connect to the server""Shiver me timbers! A user with this name already exists!""What be ye thinkin'? This customer has orders and cannot be deleted!"www.lamecode.com

Reminds me of the early versions of Red Hat. When you picked your language for the installation instructions, you had the option of Redneck. (e.g. "You ain't got one o' doze!")