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This one happened to me just a couple of days ago, when a tried to quit excel:
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And this happend when I was using Valgrind - a memory debugger - on a code with a lots of memory leaks:
<FONT color=#ff0000>"More than 300 errors detected. I'm not reporting any more. Final error counts may be inaccurate. Go fix your program!"</FONT>
<FONT color=#000000>Lol </FONT>:P
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Just had to share this little gem. Its not a popup, but I love it.
http://www.ithelpdesk.se/gentootest.PNG
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My favorite may be urban legend. Apparently ancient versions of IBM's OS for 370 systems would sometimes die with "An error of indeterminate origin has occurred".
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Acutally, you can do something.
Click Start-Run and type in shutdown -a
This will abort the shutdown.
This problem sounds a lot like a virus I used to have. But the virus used the RPC Service to cause a shutdown.
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Actually, it was your "signature" phrase what forced me to stay hitting my desk for abour 5 minutes while trying to stop laughing/crying at the same time.
'What do you mean I can’t initialize things in an assert()?'
By the way, I really love this one (and I've got it several times actually...) from Windows Explorer when trying to access some shared folder of another server in the LAN (I'm sorry but Firefox didn't allowed me to paste the screenshot here):
\<machine> is not accessible.
This server's clock is not synchronized with the primary domain controller's clock.
So, you can't even browse the shared resource because the server has more or less 5-10 minutes diff in it's current datetime with the rest of the world...
<font style="color: rgb(128, 0, 128); font-weight: bold;" size="4">¿¿¿WTF has to do file sharing/resource browsing with the PDC clock???
</font>
(Yah, yah, I know. timestamps for file creation/modification and the like...
I insists. ¿WTF...?)
Seeyah...
</machine>
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Actually Kerberos expires authentication tokens. When NT went to Kerberos-style authentication in Windows 2000, LANs everywhere discovered how many workstations had the time zone set incorrectly... and users everywhere had problems with new email sorting below old email, because mail was no longer being timestamped with a date four hours in the future...
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i have got to tell you guys that while taking BIS115 and learning or trying to learn Access i came across the most incipid pop ups and not even my instructor could help me.
i wish i had made copies of each and every one because the internal error of the internal error sounded so much like those i received during the learning of Access.
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I've always liked this critical error, think it was Counterstrike.
Failed to find object 'ClassAny.None'
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my fave is the "Keyboard error, or keyboard not found. PRESS F1 TO CONTINUE". huh??
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one of my old computers developed a glitch in Windows, one part of Windows always caused an illegal exception when executed. unfortunately, it was the part that handles improper shutdowns! so when ANY program glitched, Windows would go into an endless loop, trying to shutdown the shutdown function over and over...