• (cs) in reply to Geary

    Geary:
    Hmm...

    This forum does not allow preview, and it does not allow you to edit your posts.

    Now that is a real WTF!

    As is the fact that it seems to be almost impossible to have a thread without someone bitching about forum software.

  • zootm (unregistered) in reply to Magic Duck
    Magic Duck:

    Geary:
    Hmm...

    This forum does not allow preview, and it does not allow you to edit your posts.

    Now that is a real WTF!

    As is the fact that it seems to be almost impossible to have a thread without someone bitching about forum software.


    To be fair, running a discussion forum about bad software engineering practices run on perhaps the worst forum software available was playing with fire from the offset, really.
  • Oli (unregistered) in reply to peep
    Anonymous:
    Anonymous:

    It says "Cannot remove folder LOCALHOST: The filename or extension is too long."



    I'm totally dissapointed.

     

    Yeah me too. That was poor.

  • Eq (unregistered) in reply to Oli

    That article on the battleship getting lost says "they stopped short of blaming Windows NT on the problem". Yeah, I don't suppose a battleship getting lost was responsible for the creation of an operating system.

  • (cs) in reply to Eq

    I created a little helper class that in the worst situation will simply tell you that

    "" is a required key in the web.config

    It is due to incorrect usage though [H] and the stack dump tells you where in your code you are passing "" to the helper [6]

     

  • (cs) in reply to Ytram
    Ytram:
    Alex Papapasomething:
    Why is this golf game running a standard version of Windows, as opposed to the slimmed-down embedded version?


    It's strange the things that run on standard Windows sometimes.

    Perhaps one of my scariest pop-up experiences was when I was looking at the Arrivals/Departures monitor at the airport and a standard Windows error dialog popped up.  Thankfully I wasn't the one flying that day.


    I stayed at a hotel in Nantucket once and they had a local TV feed which (usually) showed the center of town, only in this case it showed the blue screen of death.
  • Simon George (unregistered)

    I've seen a VB runtime error on an ATM before, shame I didn't have a digital camera handy at the time.

  • TheRider (unregistered) in reply to JAFO
    Anonymous:
    And by Subversion, you mean Visual Source Safe from within Visual Studio. Subversion works quite well as do the Explorer and the Studio plugins (TortoiseSVN and Ankh respectively).


    Ahem, Subversion is its own tool and has got nothing to do with VSS. See http://subversion.tigris.org.
  • (cs) in reply to brazzy
    brazzy:
    Ytram:
    Alex Papapasomething:
    Why is this golf game running a standard version of Windows, as opposed to the slimmed-down embedded version?


    It's strange the things that run on standard Windows sometimes.


    Not sometimes - this is the norm, not the exception. Pretty much anything that has any kind of GUI at all and is not safety-critical runs on standard Windows. I know for a fact that the only ATMs that don't run Windows are those that still run OS/2 - AND they also use webpages for the GUI!




    Until maybe around 2000, ATMs run the 16-bit version of OS/2, 1.x... I don't know if they've been upgraded recently to Warp 4, but my guess is no, and a lot of them have converted to an embedded OS, which is a shame. Until recently, ATMs used to be as reliable as the IBM 9020E in its early days of operation, only breaking down b/c the parts replacement biz became difficult.

    I don't know how many times I've gone to a store ATM and suffer incomplete transactions, or can't get a balance check, or widly different interfaces (some new ones are totally solo touch screen).

    How disappointing, since ATM fees used to be a lot less than they are now, and you got a reliable service (cash convienence), and a standard interface that was simple to use.

    [image]

  • (cs) in reply to Mike R
    Mike R:
    Anonymous:
    Ytram:
    It's strange the things that run on standard Windows sometimes.


    Yep



    Sweet. That should be a WTF article in and of itself.




    You don't know the half of it. Diebold uses windows in it's ATMs, the scaled down version mind you. that still didn't stop this from popping up.

    Embedded Windows is a scary scary thing.

  • (cs) in reply to Johnie
    Anonymous:

    Oops, that didn't work.  Basically it was red text on red background. 



    Don't worry, there's only seven or so words to guess from.

  • (cs) in reply to zootm

    Anonymous:
    To be fair, running a discussion forum about bad software engineering practices run on perhaps the worst forum software available was playing with fire from the offset, really.

    I've been saying TheDailyWTF.com's forum software IS a WTF.  Actually I can't think of a single forum I've used (aside from blog comment pages) where I can't edit or preview my response.

    I've even added this site as a WTF to one SideBarWTF forum category this summer.

  • (cs) in reply to rogthefrog
    rogthefrog:

    Well, in all fairness, that ship doesn't run on standard Windows, it sails. And not even that, actually.



    It drifted gently along the ocean.

  • (cs) in reply to TGV
    TGV:

    Well, it's only the display part, of course. Some Dutch (train) stations have big displays showing departures, and quite regularly it has a familiar shade of blue, with an NT kernel fault, complete with register dump. Makes you really trust them.


    I've seen numerous NT crash messages on the screens of the new German railway ticket vending machines that have been introduced some time in the last decade. And it's not like I travelled by train every day.

    Also, the German railway company ("Deutsche Bahn") for some reason still likes to use analog train arrival/departure displays that are off by one for every tenth letter or so. I think the worst spelling error I've seen as a result was "Regiomalexorers" instead of "Regionalexpress". At least the displayed time of arrival rsp. departure seems to be quite reliable (modulo late trains, that is).

  • (cs) in reply to Geary
    Geary:
    Hmm...

    This forum does not allow preview, and it does not allow you to edit your posts.

    Now that is a real WTF!


    IMO they should rename the "Post" button to "I'm Feeling Lucky".

  • Adam Selene (unregistered) in reply to Ytram

    > It's strange the things that run on standard Windows sometimes.

    Indeed. On more than one occasion I've seen the Cable Guide channel display a runtime error message (unable to parse xml file). Even funnier when it shows the Windows desktop and someone mousing around trying to fix the problem.

  • Tesseract (unregistered) in reply to Satanicpuppy
    Satanicpuppy:
    Mike R:
    Anonymous:
    Ytram:
    It's strange the things that run on standard Windows sometimes.


    Yep



    Sweet. That should be a WTF article in and of itself.




    You don't know the half of it. Diebold uses windows in it's ATMs, the scaled down version mind you. that still didn't stop this from popping up.

    Embedded Windows is a scary scary thing.



    Oh. My. Gawd.
    I think I will complete all my banking transactions in person now.

  • Tim Wright (unregistered)

    here's another:

    [image]
  • pa (unregistered) in reply to Tim Wright

    Or this one:

    [image]

    What now?

  • JAFO (unregistered) in reply to TheRider

    Yes, I know, that's why I said what I did. The screen shots are VSS from within Visual Studio, not SVN or any of the apps that work with it.

  • ocim (unregistered) in reply to Satanicpuppy

    Still, they look A LOT better than the crap they use in their dubious electronic VOTING machines.

    http://www.blackboxvoting.org/

  • Mike Edenfield (unregistered) in reply to TheRider
    Anonymous:
    Anonymous:
    And by Subversion, you mean Visual Source Safe from within Visual Studio. Subversion works quite well as do the Explorer and the Studio plugins (TortoiseSVN and Ankh respectively).


    Ahem, Subversion is its own tool and has got nothing to do with VSS. See http://subversion.tigris.org.


    Both correct and yet both perhaps missing the point :)

    Subversion can't be managed from the Source Control dialog in Visual Studio.  It has it's own plugin that puts AnkhSVN pop-up menus everywhere.  The screen shot of the source control dialog sohw a developer, using Subversion, trying to bind his project to a (presumably non-existant) VSS server.  Clearly, this isn't going to work.

    The fact that the SCC Provider was Subversion wasn't terribly relevant except to explain why the error message appeared.  The catch, of course, is that "Completed Successfully" was an "Unexpected Error", instead of something more reasonable like "No source control provider found".
  • Chris (unregistered) in reply to Ytram

    It's strange the things that run on standard Windows sometimes.

    Perhaps one of my scariest pop-up experiences was when I was looking at the Arrivals/Departures monitor at the airport and a standard Windows error dialog popped up. Thankfully I wasn't the one flying that day.

    One of the ticket machines at Leeds station yesterday had a SQL Server error on the screen. They run Win 2000, as one of the other ones was shoing the startup screen.

  • whatever (unregistered) in reply to peep

    Me too...that is way lame. And after all that build up.

  • Lame Factor (unregistered)

    The unnamed file one is so lame. You can get that dialog from almost any program. For instance, open notepad, select File|Open and just type in "unnamed". Press OK and there it is. It is more of a user error than anything else.

  • some guy (unregistered) in reply to peep

    <FONT face=Verdana>me too! wtf is this???</FONT>

  • Shaka (unregistered) in reply to Ytram
    Ytram:

    Perhaps one of my scariest pop-up experiences was when I was looking at the Arrivals/Departures monitor at the airport and a standard Windows error dialog popped up.  Thankfully I wasn't the one flying that day.


    Happened to me, took a photo of it with my camera phone.
  • Hydroksyde (unregistered) in reply to peep
    Anonymous:
    Heh. My BIOS complains that 'There is no keyboard present." and then invites me to "Press F12 to continue.". Wish I still had the pic ....


    That's not suprising, you're supposed to plug a keyboard in then confirm that you have done so by pressing F12.

    Why do people have trouble with this?
  • Jon (unregistered)

    I live in a small town and one day I was watching TV and switched to the local news channel, and there was a BSOD on the TV.  It stayed there for about 3 hours before someone at the TV station fixed it.

  • (cs) in reply to brazzy

    brazzy:
    Not sometimes - this is the norm, not the exception. Pretty much anything that has any kind of GUI at all and is not safety-critical runs on standard Windows. I know for a fact that the only ATMs that don't run Windows are those that still run OS/2 - AND they also use webpages for the GUI!

    Gas station I stop at regularly (BP) has fairly new pumps that are VERY obviously using Win/IE for the interface.  They didn't turn off "Show image download placeholders" (and apparently they're not caching either) because every time it goes to a new page, you see that familiar empty box with the little "graphic" icon in the corner for a second before the image loads.

  • (cs) in reply to GalacticCowboy

    Early in 2005, I was in a major US airport waiting for my connecting flight to the UK.  There was a security office across from the gate.  Inside the office was a desk that was clearly visible whenever the door opened, and it was obvious (having seen this screen quite a few times myself - but not in YEARS) that the computer on the desk was running Windows NT 4.0 Workstation.  Certainly boosted my confidence in their level of "security"...

  • hotzenplotz (unregistered) in reply to JW
    Anonymous:
    Alex Papadimoulis:


    Probably, you just entered "an unnamed file" as filename. That file doesn't exist, so it displays this error.
    The same way, you also can get messages like "Are you sure you want to delete everything on your computer?" if you've got a file named "everything on your computer".

    Nope. This can happen with perfectly fine client code, it's an MFC bug. Try this with MFC6:

    

    try {
        CFile::Rename("AFileNameThatDoesNotExist", "AFileNameThatDoesNotExist.1");  }
    catch(CException* e)  {
        e->ReportError();
        e->Delete();  }

    The result will be the error message you see above. As to why, it's really simple: the CFile::Rename implementation does not pass any filename to the CFileException it throws, and CFileException substitutes an empty filename with "an unnamed file".

    Simple as that.

  • (cs) in reply to hotzenplotz

    Ok, now I see why it's good to register. The code should read like this:

    try {
        CFile::Rename("AFileNameThatDoesNotExist", "AFileNameThatDoesNotExist.1");  }
    catch(CException* e)  {
        e->ReportError();
        e->Delete();  }
  • (cs)

    Golf one = classic!
    It reminds me of this time I was over at a nursing home, in my grandma's room. (Yes, I'm still young enough for her to me alive. :P) Anyways, I turned on the TV to the announcements channel that the nursing home runs-- guess what I saw? BSOD. Turns out it was just a powerpoint being outputted on cable...

  • (cs) in reply to GalacticCowboy
    GalacticCowboy:

    Early in 2005, I was in a major US airport waiting for my connecting flight to the UK.  There was a security office across from the gate.  Inside the office was a desk that was clearly visible whenever the door opened, and it was obvious (having seen this screen quite a few times myself - but not in YEARS) that the computer on the desk was running Windows NT 4.0 Workstation.  Certainly boosted my confidence in their level of "security"...

    You don't know half of it...
    When working as a consultant (2001 I think it was, maybe early 2002) I got an interview for a possible contract job at a major airline (who will remain nameless here).
    When asking about their environment they told me they were in the process of moving from NT 3.5 (not 3.51) to NT4 SP3 (not Win2K which had been out for over a year).

    After I Asked why they use such an old product they answered it was corporate policy from the security department to never use the latest version of anything.
    So they had to run on the second to last patchlevel of the second to last minor release of the second to last major release (or older) of everything, never anything newer, for "security" reasons.
    Someone had decided that anything newer than that is never tested thoroughly enough (never mind that many of those updates introduced are to fix security flaws)...

  • (cs) in reply to jwenting
    jwenting:

    When asking about their environment they told me they were in the process of moving from NT 3.5 (not 3.51) to NT4 SP3 (not Win2K which had been out for over a year).

    After I Asked why they use such an old product they answered it was corporate policy from the security department to never use the latest version of anything.



    Sounds reasonable, especially if you're mucking around with airplanes.
  • (cs) in reply to Maurits
    Maurits:
    jwenting:

    When asking about their environment they told me they were in the process of moving from NT 3.5 (not 3.51) to NT4 SP3 (not Win2K which had been out for over a year).

    After I Asked why they use such an old product they answered it was corporate policy from the security department to never use the latest version of anything.



    Sounds reasonable, especially if you're mucking around with airplanes.


    Not using the latest major release can definitely be justified by safety and security concerns - but avoiding the latest bugfixes is idiotic.
  • btony (unregistered) in reply to Ytram

    Wasn't NJ Liberty by any chance was it ? Saw D/A board showing black DOS screen showing the dreaded "Keyboard Error - Press F1" on 16th March about 17:00. Location: Bottom of AirTrain Escalator into terminal C. Didn;t worry me though. I fly Continental and they use string, wire and paper tape to hold planes together built pre-windows so I felt much less worried.


  • Ano Nemus (unregistered) in reply to Ytram
    Ytram:
    Alex Papapasomething:
    Why is this golf game running a standard version of Windows, as opposed to the slimmed-down embedded version?


    It's strange the things that run on standard Windows sometimes.

    Perhaps one of my scariest pop-up experiences was when I was looking at the Arrivals/Departures monitor at the airport and a standard Windows error dialog popped up.  Thankfully I wasn't the one flying that day.


    The departure boards at Birmingham New Street station. On more than one occasion I've seen one of a bank of about 20 screens showing an error message instead of the train times.

    And when I was at a supermarket cafe once, the till crashed - it was running NT.
  • arcadboy Fag (unregistered)

    Fuck Cock Bitch Shit Ass hole

  • TonyTwoTones (unregistered)

    That source control plugin looks a LOT like the IBM (Ir)rational ClearCase Plugin for VS.

    Yes, a particular client of ours uses that. Why am I not dead yet? Because everyone else is to busy getting that piece of s**t to work!!

  • barryk desteve (unregistered)

    Do not worry if you want to remove the blocked files or too long path files from your system, here I suggest a smooth way. Use “Long path tool” software and keep yourself cool.

  • albina elvira (unregistered)

    The path you entered, is too long. Enter a shorter path File Name could not be found. Check the spelling of the filename, and verify that the file location is correct.

  • albina elvira (unregistered)

    The path you entered, is too long. Enter a shorter path File Name could not be found. Check the spelling of the filename, and verify that the file location is correct.

  • albina elvira (unregistered)

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