• (cs) 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.
    I had to read the comments to find out that garbled text was actually Welsh.

    Hm.. that (null) message reminds me of the first call I got on my new Blackberry Bold. As I hadn't loaded my contacts on the 'berry at that time, the info on who was calling me wasn't there. But what I didn't expect was for the "current call" screen to tell me I was talking to "null". I'm gonna try to get a screenshot of that effect someday....

  • Synchronos (unregistered) in reply to Tom
    Tom:
    TRWTF is that Microsoft error messages are the only one written in proper English.

    'Semicolon' is a compound. Not 'semi colon'.

  • Gman (unregistered) in reply to dkf

    Cutting edge technology.

  • Quirkafleeg (unregistered) in reply to Anonymous
    Anonymous:
    They do say that touch screens are cutting edge technology.
    Easy to handle too.
  • Abita (unregistered) in reply to Anonymously Yours
    Anonymously Yours:
    Hey, that first error could have been worse. 
    ...DAMNDAMNDAMN...

    Epic. Thank you for improving my day.

  • Quirkafleeg (unregistered) in reply to danixdefcon5
    danixdefcon5:
    I had to read the comments to find out that garbled text was actually Welsh.
    I didn't. ‘BBC Cymru’ is a bit of a giveaway.
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  • RandomCanadian (unregistered) in reply to dkf

    comedic cymbal crash

  • r2k (unregistered)

    That last one sounds familiar...

    http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/Leaning-Towards-A.aspx

    Oh nevermind. The date is different. Carry on.

  • Anon (unregistered) in reply to Quirkafleeg
    Quirkafleeg:
    danixdefcon5:
    I had to read the comments to find out that garbled text was actually Welsh.
    I didn't. ‘BBC Cymru’ is a bit of a giveaway.

    To somebody that has any idea of what 'Cymru' means.

  • blwchllwch (unregistered) in reply to operagost
    operagost:
    Someone should alert the UN to the vowel crisis in Wales.

    Welsh has 7 vowels:

    a, e, i, o, u, w, y

    Define crisis.

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

    Ia! Ia! Wtfhtagn!

  • GP (unregistered)

    Nobulate is Welsh for "chance of rain on old road".

  • (cs) in reply to SenTree
    SenTree:
    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.

    WIN!

  • (cs)

    Actually, folks, the 'nobulate' error has been known about for at least two years: http://ofiasstuff.wordpress.com/2007/12/26/calling-dell-tech-support-and-vista/

    As for the VS2008 semicolon error, I gues that's proof positive that Cormac McCarthy was the lead developer…

  • (cs) in reply to Justin

    I think it would have been a real WTF if the variable names would have been in Welsh. Something like $tywydd

    I once had to test drive a website a temp had created at my company. One of the first things I did gave a "Fenetre Erreur" or something to that effect. It ended up that all the names in the code and error messages were in French. (and no, we are not in a francophone country).

  • Quirkafleeg (unregistered) in reply to blwchllwch
    blwchllwch:
    operagost:
    Someone should alert the UN to the vowel crisis in Wales.
    Welsh has 7 vowels:

    a, e, i, o, u, w, y

    Define crisis.

    Consonant crisis, then.

    Captcha: illllum

  • Anon (unregistered) in reply to Quirkafleeg
    Quirkafleeg:
    blwchllwch:
    operagost:
    Someone should alert the UN to the vowel crisis in Wales.
    Welsh has 7 vowels:

    a, e, i, o, u, w, y

    Define crisis.

    Consonant crisis, then.

    Captcha: illllum

    Blackadder : Have you ever been to Wales Baldrick? Baldrick : No, but I've often thought I'd like to. Blackadder : Well don't, it's a ghastly place. Huge gangs of tough sinewy men roam the valleys terrorising people with their close-harmony singing. You need half a pint of phlegm in your throat just to pronounce the placenames. Never ask for directions in Wales Baldrick, you'll be washing spit out of your hair for a fortnight.

  • luptatum (unregistered) in reply to Anonymously Yours
    Anonymously Yours:
    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

    No problum, I had a tech support guy put it on a floppy for me, so the Internet is safe.

  • (cs)

    Nobulation Fail was certified by fail.

  • me (unregistered) in reply to Anon
    Anon:
    I got "....move for Wales on...". The previous and following words are presumably truncated.
    It says "Romans go home."
  • (cs)

    Obviosly they FAILED an intened imitation of the !FAIL! screen as seen on "The IT Crowd".

    See http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTJxedJ1zmQ at 0:02 for exact specifications.

  • BlueCollarAstronaut (unregistered)

    I tried to use a monitor like that once before. The damn thing like to have bit my finger off.

  • (cs)

    Adarsha will not be gaining residency anytime soon. When you list India as your country of origin, INS gives you a programming error to debug in order to prove your worth - fail.

  • Slicerwizard (unregistered) in reply to Tom
    Tom:
    TRWTF is that Microsoft error messages are the only one (sic) written in proper English.
    It looks like you aren't qualified to make that call.
  • Adam (unregistered) in reply to monkeyPushButton
    monkeyPushButton:
    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.

    You guys should cut it out.

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

    I nobulated your mom

    Your mom likes computers.

  • (cs) in reply to Green Zebra
    Green Zebra:
    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.

    Green Zebra gets it - FTFY :) Thanks for understanding, though.

  • Some Wonk (unregistered) in reply to me
    me:
    Anon:
    I got "....move for Wales on...". The previous and following words are presumably truncated.
    It says "Romans go home."

    No it doesn't. It says "People called Romanes, they go, the house"

  • Gabe (unregistered) in reply to Anonymous
    Anonymous:
    They do say that touch screens are cutting edge technology.

    I was going to call it bleeding edge myself

  • (cs)

    TRWTF is that slaves have agents.

  • (cs)

    Fate of the world rests in your hands. Would you like to

    (Yes, please)           (No, thanks)
  • (cs)

    It's obviously a pocketknife with a fold-out monitor.

  • (cs) in reply to Adam
    Adam:
    You guys should cut it out.
    Haha...CUT it out. :)
  • StychoKiller (unregistered) in reply to Nobulation Newb
    Nobulation Newb:
    Nobulate is perfectly cromulent.
    Darn it, I was wondering the same thing!
  • Tino (unregistered)

    I thought "nobulate" was a simple misspelling of something, but it seems it is quite intentional. I found two copies of the script that trigger this error online (Link 1, link 2) and it uses the word consistently.

      :: nobulate the boot status
  :: this is for IA32, IA64 is different
start /w C:\%MFGDIR%\FIST\nobnt 0
if errorlevel 1 goto Nob_Fail

  :: DOFIST.BAT uses this file as a trigger of FIST running
if exist c:\%MFGDIR%\fist\nobulate.exe del /f /q c:\%MFGDIR%\fist\nobulate.exe

    Anyone understands enough of this to tell what "nobulate the boot status" means?

  • (username *)me (unregistered)

    You call that an ugly batch? This is an ugly batch: http://pastebin.com/d9pQZqtp

  • guest (unregistered)

    it may be better to not touch that monito

  • (cs) in reply to dkf
    dkf:
    At least the picture's going to be sharp on that monitor…

    That's just cutting edge technology!

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

    Ia! Ia! Wtfhtagn!

    Nobody's replied in Qwghlmian?

  • (cs) in reply to RogerWilco
    RogerWilco:
    I think it would have been a real WTF if the variable names would have been in Welsh. Something like $tywydd

    I once had to test drive a website a temp had created at my company. One of the first things I did gave a "Fenetre Erreur" or something to that effect. It ended up that all the names in the code and error messages were in French. (and no, we are not in a francophone country).

    Formidable. Alors, peut-etre que le stranglehold sur l'Internet va etre broken par les Franglaisphones.

  • Jas (unregistered) in reply to Tom

    Y and W are vowels in Welsh.

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

    Ia! Ia! Wtfhtagn!

    Nobody's replied in Qwghlmian?

    Oh, come on, guys! You're getting phlegm all over my screen.

  • :') (unregistered) in reply to dkf

    ahahahaha

  • Zeo woods (unregistered)

    NO way dude, that is just WAY too cool!

    Jess www.big-brother-watching.net.tc

  • (cs)

    Sorry, but can we kibosh the screen shots where Amazon (and other e-tailers) have the wrong picture for an item? Been there, done that.

  • Mick (unregistered) in reply to Studley
    Studley:
    [in Aussie accent] That's not a monitor. THIS is a monitor!

    Thumbs Up to this!!

  • Johnno (unregistered) in reply to Adam
    Adam:
    monkeyPushButton:
    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.

    You guys should cut it out.

    There are some truly sharp wits out there today!

    (Just wanted a slice of the action)

  • Some Guy (unregistered) in reply to Green Zebra
    Green Zebra:
    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.
    Nope.

    The "joke" is people who are emotionally crippled, and when they discovered that they were wrong they were forced to choose between "deal with it and move on" or the clearly much more sensible option of "pretend that its a 'meme' and therefore they were right all along".

  • Xythar (unregistered)

    Hudson error message makes me think of Franz Ferdinand.

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