• Duncan (unregistered) in reply to Quicksilver

    What about a C-5 loaded with holographic storage cubes? Betcha didn't think of that ;).

  • (cs) in reply to Watson
    Watson:
    lolpande:
    Oh, think of all the pr0n you could fit in that! Hehe...
    16PB? Never mind the pr0n; you could fit a pr0nstar in there!
    A pornstar on my hard diks??? I like the sound of that!
  • Zorkon II (unregistered) in reply to Anon

    Sorry Alex, freeing up 1.6 Petabytes will still leave you 14.4 Petabytes short unless my eyes are off on the place counting.

  • Zorkon II (unregistered)

    Sorry Alex, freeing up 1.6 Petabytes will still leave you 14.4 Petabytes short if I read the places right.

  • IMil (unregistered) in reply to tag
    tag:
    There is a cancel button in the warning. It is the closer in the upper right edge. Oh, is it disabled? What a pity ...
    There always is a cancel button. It is also known as electric fuse.
  • not having a good day (unregistered) in reply to tag
    tag:
    There is a cancel button in the warning. It is the closer in the upper right edge. Oh, is it disabled? What a pity ...

    I seem to remember a certain well-known anti-virus product used to put up a dialog of the form:

    "<name removed for legal reasons> needs to reboot your computer"

    with only an OK button. Helpfully, clicking on the closer DID THE SAME F*CKING THING (rebooted without the option) ! I lost a LOT of work that way and will no longer use that product.

  • RobbieGee (unregistered)

    I assume the calulator showed the number "80085".

  • (cs) in reply to themagni
    themagni:
    jpers36:
    Ok, my first "Not a WTF" message!

    The WinCVS message is not a WTF. WinCVS provides a command line pane (the "console") with which you can interact with cvs, in addition to an explorer-ish GUI pane. When the console throws up a Yes/No question, that triggers the GUI to put up the prompt above. I most often see it when rolling back edits that haven't been checked in. The actual question is completely visible in the console pane.

    Yeah, I'm a little frightened that:

    a) Someone thought this was a WTF. b) They didn't ask anyone else at their company "WTF is this?" c) They think WinCVS is the actual CVS interface, instead of a GUI layer. d) It made it onto the Error'd front page with a really snarky tagline. e) Several other comments think it's a hilarious WTF message.

    f) That you think it's not a WTF that they couldn't either capture the message from the console output into the dialog box, or just use the prompt from the console.
  • Mike (unregistered)

    Reminds me of in college: one of my classmates wasn't in the habit of locking his machine, and for several weeks he was always puzzled by the fact that every time he turned around, a calculator was staring him in the face. He'd use calc.exe to help him with a math program, close calc, look down to jot down the answer, and when he looked up, calc would be back. It started to make him doubt his sanity.

    Finally, one day he did nothing but stare at the screen for a while, and then calculator spontaneously showed up on his screen, with out him doing anything at all! On a hunch, he checked his screen saver, and it was set to "evil.exe" which, among other things, spawned a copy of calculator (the writer of said application fessed up immediately and proudly when confronted). He turned around to see the row behind his lab computer giggling uncontrollably - they had been in on the joke for the previous 2 weeks.

  • Jess (unregistered)

    Should that be 16 petabytes?

  • Jess (unregistered) in reply to Jess

    Woo, found the other people that already said that. :)

  • Paolo G (unregistered) in reply to sagey
    sagey:
    The real wtf is that the i is replaced with a question mark for the "Gaudi" museum

    Yep, because someone thought they would be smart and spell Gaudi as it is spelled in Spanish ("Gaudí", with an accent on the "i") but then didn't use the right encoding to display it...

  • tunafisk (unregistered)

    I think this is the same screen.. http://kuvaton.com/bshit/lv-night.jpg

    damn, they seem to have some serious problems with that computer.

  • (cs)

    ^^^

    Is anyone going to delete that spam? I don't think Mp3s have much to do with this post.

  • (cs)

    Actually it's 16.7 Petabytes

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