• defaultex (unregistered)

    Gotta love .Net's typos. Sometimes they provide a nice chuckles when your brain is liquifying from boring boiler plate type work. Sometimes they lead you on wild goose chases with a single missing letter.

  • Dean Swift (unregistered) in reply to a key in f# minor

    most droll, sirrah!

  • Neil (unregistered) in reply to Herr Otto Flick
    Kuba:
    What the heck is up with those "you're never supposed to see that" strings?
    You weren't supposed to see it. The internal error code is NS_ERROR_BUT_DONT_SHOW_ALERT.
    Herr Otto Flick:
    We had this website that displayed an interstitial "searching..." page whern you submitted a search. This page, if the server had any unhandled errors, was too small and so triggered IE's wrapped error messages.

    This was not ideal - there was a button on the failed page to get you going again - so I was told to pad it, with HTML comments. So I stuck the monty python spam song in there, with 4k of random capitalisation of spam ("SPaM sPaM" etc).

    This worked well for about 2 years, until the page structure changed, or browsers changed (I wasn't working on it at this time), and suddenly if the page failed, all you saw was "Mrs. Bun: Have you got anything without spam in it?… SPAM SPAM SPAM SPAM".

    For a brief period, some people thought we'd been hacked...

    If it was a comment, it could have been a stray double-dash that confused a strict SGML browser (e.g. Firefox 3) into thinking that you'd ended your comment. (Firefox 4 is an HTML5 browser so it uses a different algorithm, although I believe its view source still highlights your error.)

  • Anon anon (unregistered) in reply to Maciej
    Maciej:
    DonaldK:
    "Great serving suggestion".... not cool, bru. Not cool.

    True. I had a son that was served as a waffle, and let me assure you, it's no laughing matter.

    No laughing batter?

  • Not Sure (unregistered)

    UnableToRetrieve is unoriginal....

  • Kasper (unregistered) in reply to Herr Otto Flick
    Herr Otto Flick:
    This page, if the server had any unhandled errors, was too small and so triggered IE's wrapped error messages.
    If I recall correctly they call those user friendly error messages. The idea is that they can show the same familiar error message to the user every time there is an error regardless of what the error is.
  • Kasper (unregistered) in reply to Kuba
    Kuba:
    What the heck is up with those "you're never supposed to see that" strings? If nobody will see it, just make it an empty string
    The point is that they are recognizable. If you do see it, you know that looking in the source is the best chance you have for understanding the reason. And you have a string you can start searching for.
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    Flying is a big responsibility. Both the device and organization of the aircraft and personnel, as well as the choice of ticket. You can get very burned out by choosing the wrong way to buy a ticket. I used a business flight ticket to Micronesia, and I was very pleased, because I flew business class cheaply.

    Addendum 2022-12-16 06:06: business flight ticket to Micronesia

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