• (cs) in reply to FredSaw
    FredSaw:
    The requirements error is probably choking on a version number. I remember some installation programs from years gone by which thought I didn't have IE installed because it was IE6 and they were checking for version 5.

    In more up-to-date WTFery, MusicMatch Jukebox sold out to Yahoo, which replaced MMJB with the Yahoo player. For about six weeks every time I started MMJB it would ask if I was ready to update to Yahoo. If I said yes, it would abort the install, telling me that I needed Windows XP. Apparently Windows Server 2003 is too much OS for Yahoo Player.

    It's even better when installers tell me that I don't have Windows XP. I use Windows XP x64 edition, which identifies itself as NT 5.2, the same as Server 2003. I can understand the fact that my 64-bit OS isn't supported, but claiming that it "isn't Windows XP" annoys me.

    Other installers error saying that the program isn't supported on Server 2003, which has the same NT version (5.2), but has the "Server" flag set. I've even had the Microsoft website take me to the "Windows Media Player For Server 2003" page because of this one.

    Installers that try to check the name of the OS would likely fail on foreign language versions. It's just a mess.

  • (cs) in reply to ssanchez
    ssanchez:
    Downing St. (UK equivalent of the White House)
    Well, I guess you could say No. 10 Downing St is equivalent to the White House, but I've always thought the difference between the two showed an important difference between UK and USA politics; The President lives in a gigantic mansion with massive grounds, and the P.M. doesn't even get a detached house :)

    Of course, that argument would carry more weight if it wasn't for all the royal palaces...

  • (cs) in reply to FredSaw
    FredSaw:
    The fact that biblically speaking, this is part of the law given to the nation of Israel which passed away with the arrival of the messiah's "new covenant" and now has no application other than as history, seems to escape them.

    Yes, I've often wondered why the Christians condemning homosexuality and contraception aren't so keen on all the other laws in Leviticus. Like not eating shellfish.

  • (cs) in reply to misha
    misha:
    Yes, I've often wondered why the Christians condemning homosexuality and contraception aren't so keen on all the other laws in Leviticus. Like not eating shellfish.
    Don't forget Exodus 21:7-11: instructions on how to sell your daughter as a sex slave.
  • Sgt. Preston (unregistered) in reply to FredSaw
    FredSaw:
    misha:
    Yes, I've often wondered why the Christians condemning homosexuality and contraception aren't so keen on all the other laws in Leviticus. Like not eating shellfish.
    Don't forget Exodus 21:7-11: instructions on how to sell your daughter as a sex slave.
    How about Exodus 21:17, "Whoever curses his father or mother shall be put to death." I suspect that most of us wouldn't have lived past about 13 or 14 years of age.
  • Ed (unregistered) in reply to misha
    misha:
    Well, I guess you could say No. 10 Downing St is equivalent to the White House, but I've always thought the difference between the two showed an important difference between UK and USA politics; The President lives in a gigantic mansion with massive grounds, and the P.M. doesn't even get a detached house :)

    Of course, that argument would carry more weight if it wasn't for all the royal palaces...

    When visiting the UK 10 years back, someone pointed out 10 Downing, I was dumbfounded how it looked like a regular flat (although in a fantastic location, probably run you millions of Pounds). Can one walk near to it, or is it like the White House, an East Coast version of Fort Knox/Gitmo? (Yeah, I know no gold is there anymore <shrug>.)

  • (cs) in reply to Ed
    Ed:
    misha:
    Well, I guess you could say No. 10 Downing St is equivalent to the White House, but I've always thought the difference between the two showed an important difference between UK and USA politics; The President lives in a gigantic mansion with massive grounds, and the P.M. doesn't even get a detached house :)

    Of course, that argument would carry more weight if it wasn't for all the royal palaces...

    When visiting the UK 10 years back, someone pointed out 10 Downing, I was dumbfounded how it looked like a regular flat (although in a fantastic location, probably run you millions of Pounds). Can one walk near to it, or is it like the White House, an East Coast version of Fort Knox/Gitmo? (Yeah, I know no gold is there anymore <shrug>.)

    You can walk past Downing St, where it meets Whitehall, but there is a big gate and police blocking the street itself.

    I think Number Ten was originally the private residence of one of the first prime ministers, but he willed it to the Crown and now it's the PM's official residence. I'm sure Wikipedia has the details somewhere.

  • Mrrix32 (unregistered)

    I'm the guy who submitted the bottom one.I am running XP SP2 so it's not that I'm running Vista and it thought "oh it's XP or above", And I can confirm that I do live in the UK so it's not that. I know the correct reason but no ones said it yet :D

  • Lucas (unregistered)

    I was just about to submit this same screenshot when I saw this! :( I like mine better, since the error number is 666.

  • (cs) in reply to Mrrix32
    Mrrix32:
    I'm the guy who submitted the bottom one.I am running XP SP2 so it's not that I'm running Vista and it thought "oh it's XP or above", And I can confirm that I do live in the UK so it's not that. I know the correct reason but no ones said it yet :D

    I've seen this one myself, I just can't quite remember why. I think it may have been to do with the fact that I was actually using firefox (with IETab). Or it might have been an expired login session.

  • madcrazybg (unregistered)

    hehe, why not on the CD to appear this text.

    1. You need computer;
    2. Windows XP;
    3. Internet Explorer;
    4. Windows Media Player.
  • Iain Collins (unregistered)

    The error from the BBC's iPlayer occurs because it doesn't do version checking, specifically it doesn't check the version of Media Player correctly at this stage.

    So if your installed Windows Media Player is version 9, instead of version 10 you will see this message (as WMP 10 is required, no doubt because of the DRM scheme being used). I think it's less picky about the specific version of IE you happen to be using.

    iPlayer is actually in 'public beta', and you have to apply to take part in the trial, so this is made quite clear. It currently has a number of much more significant (but less amusing) bugs.

    I appreciate this takes the joke out of it though.

  • (cs)

    "I'm tired of these Gosh Darn exceptions in this Gosh Darn Application" - as Samuel Jackson might say in one of his more polite moments.

  • peterlind (unregistered) in reply to akatherder
    I deal with the god-damned exceptions so the users don't have to!

    "I have exception skills; I am good at dealing with exceptions. Can't you understand that? What the hell is wrong with you people?"

    Am I the only one who caught the Office Space reference?

  • Myself (unregistered)

    Nice XSS guys! You might want to fix that...

  • Simmo (unregistered) in reply to Pirate Programmer
    Pirate Programmer:
    Zylon:
    Brandon:
    Actually I got this error before with BBC's online player. I found out it is due to my being in the State's.
    The State's what?

    I assume the apostrophe was an error, and he mean "in the States", that is, "in the United States of America".

    well, gosh darn it. Thank you for that explanation I was sorely confused

  • (cs) in reply to misha
    misha:
    Ed:
    misha:
    Well, I guess you could say No. 10 Downing St is equivalent to the White House, but I've always thought the difference between the two showed an important difference between UK and USA politics; The President lives in a gigantic mansion with massive grounds, and the P.M. doesn't even get a detached house :)

    Of course, that argument would carry more weight if it wasn't for all the royal palaces...

    When visiting the UK 10 years back, someone pointed out 10 Downing, I was dumbfounded how it looked like a regular flat (although in a fantastic location, probably run you millions of Pounds). Can one walk near to it, or is it like the White House, an East Coast version of Fort Knox/Gitmo? (Yeah, I know no gold is there anymore <shrug>.)

    You can walk past Downing St, where it meets Whitehall, but there is a big gate and police blocking the street itself.

    I think Number Ten was originally the private residence of one of the first prime ministers, but he willed it to the Crown and now it's the PM's official residence. I'm sure Wikipedia has the details somewhere.

    Indeed: the very first, Sir Robert Walpole. Being the peculative swine that he was, I assume that he made more money out of "willing" it to the Crown (who, in those days, could afford to pay back) than he lost.

    Basically, he thought the dismal little terraced house was uncomfortable and inadequate, and he didn't want it.

    Which is an interesting comment on the way that politics works, since it's now practically iconic.

  • (cs) in reply to misha
    misha:
    FredSaw:
    The fact that biblically speaking, this is part of the law given to the nation of Israel which passed away with the arrival of the messiah's "new covenant" and now has no application other than as history, seems to escape them.

    Yes, I've often wondered why the Christians condemning homosexuality and contraception aren't so keen on all the other laws in Leviticus. Like not eating shellfish.

    Largely, I would imagine, because penises and condoms don't taste quite as nice as a lobster.

    I wouldn't know. On purely moral grounds, I haven't eaten any of them.

  • Neil (unregistered) in reply to Sgt. Preston

    The shellfish argument is full of holes but is appealing to many because so few bother to read the passages in context. I encourage you to read flaws of the shellfish argument.

  • Hayley (unregistered)

    my computer keeps on freezing!!! It takes so long to get it bak!

  • Sean (unregistered)

    [insert curses here, provided that web site supports Curses.php] CAPTCHA: [insert captcha here, provided that web site supports CAPTCHA.asp]

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