• (cs)

    At least the picture's going to be sharp on that monitor…

  • Anon (unregistered)

    TRWTF is Welsh.

  • MJB (unregistered)

    Dont' panic. Unknown frist happens.

  • Nobulation Newb (unregistered)

    Nobulate is perfectly cromulent.

  • fjf (unregistered)

    The 2nd one is

  • Tor Lillqvist (unregistered)

    At least the C library in the Starbucks register didn't crash when doing printf("%s", NULL). But I think it should have, then the bug would have been caught during development. One hopes.

  • Sir Read-a-Lot (unregistered)

    Comment on old road.

  • thnurg (unregistered)

    Has the priced of that touch screen monitor been slashed?

  • Alan (unregistered)

    According to google the Welsh text on the scroller says "Move to Wales"

  • SR (unregistered) in reply to dkf
    dkf:
    At least the picture's going to be sharp on that monitor…
    thnurg:
    Has the priced of that touch screen monitor been slashed?

    Top marks the pair of you!

  • Mitch Cohen (unregistered)

    One of my all time favorite error messages can be seen here http://www.curiousmitch.com/CuriousMitch/mitch2.nsf/d6plinks/MCON-7NYN87

  • @Deprecated (unregistered)

    Hmmmm, I predict that the word Nobulate will become the new hot running joke here on the TDWTF... On the plus side, perhaps it will reduce the rash of lame references about embedded systems...

    I don't think this is what it means: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=nobulate

  • Anon (unregistered) in reply to Alan
    Alan:
    According to google the Welsh text on the scroller says "Move to Wales"

    I got "....move for Wales on...". The previous and following words are presumably truncated.

  • Anonymous (unregistered)

    Next time the testers moan about broken functionality I'm just gonna be like "hey, unknown bug happens, get used to it bitchez!". Then I'll snap out of my little fantasy, apologise profusely and fix the bug.

  • Anonymous (unregistered) in reply to SR

    That monitor is clearly a cut above the rest. And puns never get old.

  • Leo (unregistered)

    I nobulated your girlfriend.

  • Justin (unregistered)

    At first I thought that the WTF on the MP's expenses one was the garbled text, then I realised it was in Welsh.

  • (cs)
    FristAndOrWowJustWowPoster:
    Thank you for your comment submission.
    No, Thanks.
  • (cs)

    What they mean by 'touch screen' is: "If you touch my fucking screen again, I am going to stab you with this knife"

  • Edward I (unregistered) in reply to Justin
    Justin:
    At first I thought that the WTF on the MP's expenses one was the garbled text, then I realised it was in Welsh.
    They're not mutually exclusive, you know.
  • @Deprecated (unregistered)

    Geez I just love the visual studio one... We have a situation here, OMG THERE's NO SEMICOLON!!! We never designed the parser to handle invalid syntax!

    If only it had required the user to reboot with no option to cancel...

  • Neville Flynn (unregistered) in reply to Edward I
    Edward I:
    Justin:
    At first I thought that the WTF on the MP's expenses one was the garbled text, then I realised it was in Welsh.
    They're not mutually exclusive, you know.

    +1. Speaking Welsh is like gargling metal shavings.

  • Steve the Cynic (unregistered) in reply to Edward I
    Edward I:
    Justin:
    At first I thought that the WTF on the MP's expenses one was the garbled text, then I realised it was in Welsh.
    They're not mutually exclusive, you know.
    Dach chi ddim yn deall Cymraeg? Nid Cymro go iawn ydych chi, te.

    == You don't understand Welsh? You're no true Welshman, then.

    Dim ond Saes ydw i.

    == I'm just an Englishman.

    But I understand Welsh anyway. Because.

  • Bosshog (unregistered)
    I tried to fix the error by getting everyone to switch over to C#
    Oh no! C# expects semicolons too!
  • (cs)

    Not a WTF. On an embedded platform there is no filesystem, so a program is required to nobulate as soon as possible.

    Paula Bean. XKCD. Brillant

  • (cs)

    A blunt manager can be convinced of the advantages of that monitor for their employees (provided one is sharp enough to get the point across).

  • monkeyPushButton (unregistered) in reply to SR
    dkf:
    At least the picture's going to be sharp on that monitor…
    thnurg:
    Has the priced of that touch screen monitor been slashed?
    Anonymous:
    That monitor is clearly a cut above the rest. And puns never get old.
    Very pointed remarks.
  • (cs) in reply to toth
    toth:
    Not a WTF. On an embedded platform there is no filesystem, so a program is required to nobulate as soon as possible.

    Paula Bean. XKCD. Brillant

    There you go again - it's always meme meme meme.

  • Sanderman (unregistered)

    The real WTF is that people still use VB...

  • (cs) 
    FFFFFFF IIIII RRRRRR   SSSSS  TTTTTTT 
FF       III  RR   RR SS        TTT   
FFFF     III  RRRRRR   SSSSS    TTT   
FF       III  RR  RR       SS   TTT   
FF      IIIII RR   RR  SSSSS    TTT

    Wait, aww....

  • Anon (unregistered) in reply to Sanderman
    Sanderman:
    The real WTF is that people still use VB...

    No the real WTF is that people use VB in Welsh!

  • (cs) in reply to Steve the Cynic
    Steve the Cynic:
    Dach chi ddim yn deall Cymraeg? Nid Cymro go iawn ydych chi, te.

    == You don't understand Welsh? You're no true Welshman, then.

    Dim ond Saes ydw i.

    == I'm just an Englishman.

    But I understand Welsh anyway. Because.

    Feels a bit Yoda-ish, or reverse Polish notation :)
  • (cs) in reply to WhiskeyJack
    WhiskeyJack:
    FFFFFFF RRRRRR  IIIII  SSSSS  TTTTTTT 
FF      RR   RR  III  SS        TTT   
FFFF    RRRRRR   III   SSSSS    TTT   
FF      RR  RR   III       SS   TTT   
FF      RR   RR IIIII  SSSSS    TTT

    Wait, aww....

    FTFY

  • gon (unregistered)

    that monitor surely has an edge over the competition

  • TheWhy (unregistered)

    I think I know the reason for the odd messagebox. The programmer probably through it was a string that had been split over two lines rather than a message and an accompanying caption.

    int msgboxID = MessageBox(
        NULL,
        (LPCWSTR)L"Installation was successful. Would you like to ",
        (LPCWSTR)L"Install as a Windows Service",
        MB_ICONQUESTION | MB_OKCANCEL
    );

    And of course the question mark is being left out - the box is a question after all, and there's a pretty big and awesome question mark coming along with it.

    (I totally stole the code from the MessageBox() sample in the MSDN. If anything is wrong with it, blame MS. If nothing is wrong with it, blame MS too.)

  • (cs) in reply to Bosshog
    Bosshog:
    I tried to fix the error by getting everyone to switch over to C#
    Oh no! C# expects semicolons too!

    He was trying to add XML comments - C# wouldn't throw anything if you have a semicolon in the XML comments.

  • (cs) in reply to toth
    toth:
    Not a WTF. On an embedded platform there is no filesystem, so a program is required to nobulate as soon as possible.
    I don't get people who really don't get the no-WTF embedded story. A couple years ago I've interfaced a little Z8 Encore! 8 pin MCU to a serial LCD from a Nokia phone. It rotated through a few static bitmaps, it was just for the kick of it. The way I got the bitmaps in there was by adding a bunch of XPM files into the project. This is on a device with 512 bytes of RAM and methinks 4 kb of EEPROM for code.

    I guess some people just don't get stuff that's outside of their experience. Like my favorite comment under the recent 3y.o. self-shooting article on one of the news sites: some commenter claiming that he "doesn't buy it" because 3y.olds apparently can "barely walk". Some "misbelief" comments in the embedded thread are in the same LOL category: obviously from people who have no idea what they talk about, and no imagination EITHER. Jeez.

    I have to resuscitate that display project and post a pic...

  • Studley (unregistered)

    [in Aussie accent] That's not a monitor. THIS is a monitor!

  • SR (unregistered) in reply to Leo
    Leo:
    I nobulated your girlfriend.

    I nobulated your mom

  • Green Zebra (unregistered) in reply to Kuba
    Kuba:
    toth:
    Not a WTF. On an embedded platform there is no filesystem, so a program is required to nobulate as soon as possible.
    I don't get people who really don't get the no-WTF embedded story. A couple years ago I've interfaced a little Z8 Encore! 8 pin MCU to a serial LCD from a Nokia phone. It rotated through a few static bitmaps, it was just for the kick of it. The way I got the bitmaps in there was by adding a bunch of XPM files into the project. This is on a device with 512 bytes of RAM and methinks 4 kb of EEPROM for code.

    I guess some people just don't get stuff that's outside of their experience. Like my favorite comment under the recent 3y.o. self-shooting article on one of the news sites: some commenter claiming that he "doesn't buy it" because 3y.olds apparently can "barely walk". Some "misbelief" comments in the embedded thread are in the same LOL category: obviously from people who have no idea what they talk about, and no imagination EITHER. Jeez.

    I have to resuscitate that display project and post a pic...

    No, we get it. Putting bitmaps in the executable is a perfectly valid in the world of embedded systems, there's nowhere else to load them from, yadda, yadda, yadda.

    The joke is the sheer number of posters who didn't read prior comments, and posted the above information as though it were new. Reading essentially the same post over and over and over again was tiresome. So, now it's an in-joke.

  • mc (unregistered)

    That "(null)" message at Starbucks isn't an error. It's the feeling that comes free with every purchase there.

  • Anonymous (unregistered)

    They do say that touch screens are cutting edge technology.

  • chlb (unregistered)

    Finally, a monitor to go with my cutting edge GPU.

  • Anonymously Yours (unregistered)

    Hey, that first error could have been worse.

    DAMNDAMNDAMNDAMNDAMNDAMNDAMNDAMNDAMNDAMNDAMNDAMNDAMNDAMNDAMNDAMNDAMN
DAMNDAMNDAMNDAMNDAMNDAMNDAMNDAMNDAMNDAMNDAMNDAMNDAMNDAMNDAMNDAMNDAMN

HH  HH    OOO    LL     YY   YY       SSSSS   HH  HH  IIIIII  TTTTTT
HH  HH   OO OO   LL      YY  YY      SSS      HH  HH    II      TT
HHHHHH  OO   OO  LL        YY         SSSSS   HHHHHH    II      TT
HH  HH   OO OO   LL        YY            SSS  HH  HH    II      TT
HH  HH    OOO    LLLLLL    YY         SSSSS   HH  HH  IIIIII    TT

 HOLY SHIT, you just broke something IMPORTANT because you shouldn't
ever see this error message!  I think you might have deleted the 
internet.

DAMNDAMNDAMNDAMNDAMNDAMNDAMNDAMNDAMNDAMNDAMNDAMNDAMNDAMNDAMNDAMNDAMN
DAMNDAMNDAMNDAMNDAMNDAMNDAMNDAMNDAMNDAMNDAMNDAMNDAMNDAMNDAMNDAMNDAMN
  • (cs)

    Well, obviously that's just a picture of the Stylus included with the touch-screen. Not a wtf at all.

  • Synchronos (unregistered)

    A "touch screen" is indeed a good name for that item. I think I would quite effectively screen myself from being touched by other people, if I were to point that knife at them.

  • (cs)

    Comment on old road...

  • (cs)

    Someone should alert the UN to the vowel crisis in Wales.

  • Tom (unregistered)

    TRWTF is that Microsoft error messages are the only one written in proper English.

  • ted (unregistered) in reply to Kuba

    And you have no sense of humor.

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