• (cs) in reply to Populus
    Populus:
    If you're going to fake a screen shot, at least try to match the fonts.

    Actually it is much more believable with the differing font. I've programmed a ton of these screens and they typically have two built-in fonts - one that is twice the size of the first.

    The smaller font is normally the "system font" and would be what all system error messages get displayed in.

  • me_again (unregistered) in reply to Cecil
    Cecil:
    lesle:
    zeno:
    <sarcasm>trwtf is having 23 as a favorite number.</sarcasm>

    It is at a triangular site where Broadway and Fifth Avenue—the two most important streets of New York—meet at Madison Square, and because of the juxtaposition of the streets and the park across the street, there was a wind-tunnel effect here. In the early twentieth century, men would hang out on the corner here on Twenty-third Street and watch the wind blowing women's dresses up so that they could catch a little bit of ankle. This entered into popular culture and there are hundreds of postcards and illustrations of women with their dresses blowing up in front of the Flatiron Building. And it supposedly is where the slang expression "23 skidoo" comes from because the police would come and give the voyeurs the 23 skidoo to tell them to get out of the area.

    TRWTF is that you copied that paragraph wholesale from Wikipedia and didn't bother to link it.

    Neither did you.

  • (cs)
    "if only it has asked for my second favorite number, which is 27,991,407,809."

    That's stupid, why not pick an friendlier, easier to remember number, such as 0118 999 881 999 119 725 ...3

  • (username *)me (unregistered)

    23.000000f

  • Abdiel (unregistered)

    This forum cannot support this many comments. Number of comments will be set to forum maximum of 1.

    FUCK YOU

  • Sigivald (unregistered) in reply to Eric

    Well, Eric, I reckon that if it dumps you to the service menu it's probably one of the options, you know?

  • YourFavoriteName (unregistered) in reply to me_again
    me_again:
    Cecil:
    lesle:
    zeno:
    <sarcasm>trwtf is having 23 as a favorite number.</sarcasm>

    It is at a triangular site where Broadway and Fifth Avenue—the two most important streets of New York—meet at Madison Square, and because of the juxtaposition of the streets and the park across the street, there was a wind-tunnel effect here. In the early twentieth century, men would hang out on the corner here on Twenty-third Street and watch the wind blowing women's dresses up so that they could catch a little bit of ankle. This entered into popular culture and there are hundreds of postcards and illustrations of women with their dresses blowing up in front of the Flatiron Building. And it supposedly is where the slang expression "23 skidoo" comes from because the police would come and give the voyeurs the 23 skidoo to tell them to get out of the area.

    TRWTF is that you copied that paragraph wholesale from Wikipedia and didn't bother to link it.

    Neither did you.

    Neither did you.

  • (username *)me (unregistered)

    There is no way to resist playing with service menus, obviously "shutting down" the ATM was an ingenious plan to get both a handsome payout at the banks expense and tube reflected lime from TDWTF masses, all the while staying one step ahead of law.

  • Anonymous Coward (unregistered) in reply to YourFavoriteName

    Neither did you. To end this: http://ci.columbia.edu/0240s/0242_2/0242_2_s5_text.html

  • blar blar (unregistered) in reply to egc52556
    egc52556:
    I remember a story about the programmer who got so annoyed at end users complaining about cryptic error messages ("IMR 23/45 #AA4G") that he rewrote many of them to, for example, "I'm sorry, but I can't find the file you were looking for. I'm just a poor computer without much common sense. So please be sure you have typed in the name of the file exactly, including making sure the capital letters are all in the correct place. Thank you, Your Computer."

    Later that day, he noticed that there was a large number of system errors -- the users were INTENTIONALLY causing errors because the messages were so entertaining. ("Hey, look what it says when you divide by zero!") It was an Easter Egg hunt. The programmer received many complimentary notes.

    As I recall, the programmer said, "On that day I started thinking about systems from the end user's perspective. It made me a better programmer."

    Maybe it's just urban legend, but the story itself has made me a better programmer.

    Dunno, I did this at one point when I first started my company's portal. At that time the system was supposed to be a simple reporting tool... now it has everyone from live image editing to a shopping cart. Well, when one of our cockier employees decided to check in some live that wasn't well tested, it started throwing some amazing Exceptions. My old code that ran everything caught it, and started to display errors from when I first wrote the system (a year removed from college). Well... my company didn't appreciate my humor and everyone got really pissed off. The programmers thought they were funny, and we were used to them... our CEO... not so much.

  • (cs) in reply to Steve the Cynic
    Steve the Cynic:
    "Unexpected" rather than "unknown". ... I always like to see the Windows system message for a sharing violation: "The file is in use by another process". Great, which file, and which process?

    FWIW, there's a great little program for that, Unlocker.

    http://ccollomb.free.fr/unlocker/

    Runs as a service and adds a context menu. Right click on a locked file, and it'll tell you which programs are locking it. It can remove the locks, and/or kill the locking processes. Very, very handy to have.

  • (cs)

    My guess about the ATM is that it's fake - not the screenshot, but the ATM itself. Chances are it's a shady ATM that someone set up as a phishing thing, to scan peoples' cards and get their PINs, and without any intent of actually dispensing money.

  • moz (unregistered) in reply to ParkinT
    ParkinT:
    Hayden Realtors are really desperate; offering clothing (Suit) to retail/owner/occupied/investor.
    There's a much simpler explanation than that. As recently revealed on the sidebar, Australians don't write in English. That explains why the sign contains words such as "sqm", "approx" and "carspaces". It wouldn't surprise me to discover that the "«contactone» «contactonephone»" stuff made perfect sense in their language.
  • Harold Yospos (unregistered) in reply to plaidfluff
    plaidfluff:
    My guess about the ATM is that it's fake - not the screenshot, but the ATM itself. Chances are it's a shady ATM that someone set up as a phishing thing, to scan peoples' cards and get their PINs, and without any intent of actually dispensing money.

    The name of the ATM image submitter - Tom Yospos likely a hint at SomethingAwful Goon origin. Their tech forum, Serious Hardware/Software Crap has an "anything goes" subforum called YOSPOS (Your Operating System is a Piece of Shit) where they carry on about different tech subjects and ironically assail Microsoft and Apple. neckbeards linux lmao

    What the hell kind of a last name is Yospos, anyway?

  • akallio (unregistered) in reply to (username *)me

    It's a joke. Same as <aol>Me, too!</aol>

  • Contra (unregistered)

    Well, at least the ATM didn't tell the user to feed it a stray cat.

  • a robot (unregistered)

    Why would an ATM repeatedly press buttons in frustration?

  • Darius (unregistered)

    Anyone else notice the ticket says... "...violation of park rules will result in (abu?)sing with inappropriate/offensive words..."

    Cue angry park attendant...

  • Arenlor (unregistered) in reply to akallio
    akallio:
    It's a joke. Same as <aol>Me, too!</aol>
    That's redundant, it's actually just like the
    tag, <aol> just inserts the ME TOO!!1! for you.
  • PhiJ (unregistered) in reply to Anonymous

    GROMACS seems to do the fun error messages quite well, I think because all its messages are quite fun, so it's what you expect.

  • Sucky SQL Dufus (unregistered)

    Re: ATM

    I bet Kevin programmed it.

  • jordsta (unregistered)

    Wow, Bond University? I didn't know DailyWTF'ers lived around here.. Burleigh Heads represent!

  • (cs) in reply to moz
    moz:
    It wouldn't surprise me to discover that the "«contactone» «contactonephone»" stuff made perfect sense in their language.

    When I first read that I thought it said "coctaphone", kind of like that old joke about borrowing your dictaphone.

  • David (unregistered)

    TRWTF is that the scanner company can't spell "Catastrophe", even though they probably are one.

    On a more serious note - I've had a similar Google Analytics message. It offered me the option of saying yes I DID to trust Google to access my Google data, and grant access. Then it sent me a blank window. Presumably if I trusted Google, I was too naive to be trusted with any data BY Google.

    Cookie: transverbero. Where DO they come up with these things? And can we see the code they use please, I'm sure we'll find something to criticise...

  • Kuuharava (unregistered)

    Tom Yospos, eh? Next you'll tell me he tried to withdraw 219 bucks.

  • ZoFreX (unregistered) in reply to Anonymous
    Anonymous:
    ZoFreX:
    Last time an ATM went wrong on me it rebooted into the service menu. I toyed with the idea of fooling around, but decided on just shutting it down in the end.
    Eric:
    How do you shut down an atm?
    Clearly it was an option in the service menu. Makes perfect sense to me.
    It was.
    (username *)me:
    There is no way to resist playing with service menus, obviously "shutting down" the ATM was an ingenious plan to get both a handsome payout at the banks expense and tube reflected lime from TDWTF masses, all the while staying one step ahead of law.
    I was sorely tempted but it was in the middle of a really busy shopping centre and I didn't think it would look very good if someone challenged me. I've heard that you can use the service menu to set the values of the cash chambers, i.e. tell it that the 20s are 5s and get a 4X multiplier when you withdraw, but I didn't check.
  • (cs)

    Two nights ago, in an HTML class, we were attempting to write a web page. One student has a Mac. He tried to do it using 'textedit' but textedit refused to save in ASCII. A text editor that refuses to edit text!

    Last night we tried OpenOffice.org and on save got the error message 'You can not save this file with the extension ".html"; the required extension is ".txt". ' I do not yet know if this is a Mac damnation or OpenOffice.org version 3 damnation.

    Tonight he will use a computer with Windows.

  • (cs) in reply to ZoFreX
    ZoFreX:
    I didn't think it would look very good if someone challenged me.
    So you wear an expression of cluelessness as you "stumble around" in a twisty maze of service screens, making selections "at random" looking for "something you recognise". If you're challenged you just say you're trying to use the ATM and you got lost. Drooling slightly at this point may be excessive.
  • lesle (unregistered) in reply to me_again
    me_again:
    Cecil:
    lesle:
    zeno:
    <sarcasm>trwtf is having 23 as a favorite number.</sarcasm>

    It is at a triangular site where Broadway and Fifth Avenue—the two most important streets of New York—meet at Madison Square, and because of the juxtaposition of the streets and the park across the street, there was a wind-tunnel effect here. In the early twentieth century, men would hang out on the corner here on Twenty-third Street and watch the wind blowing women's dresses up so that they could catch a little bit of ankle. This entered into popular culture and there are hundreds of postcards and illustrations of women with their dresses blowing up in front of the Flatiron Building. And it supposedly is where the slang expression "23 skidoo" comes from because the police would come and give the voyeurs the 23 skidoo to tell them to get out of the area.

    TRWTF is that you copied that paragraph wholesale from Wikipedia and didn't bother to link it.

    Neither did you.

    I didn't, and I should have. Sorry.

    To make up, here're two links where 23 skidoo is commented on:

    http://www.shorpy.com/node/7441 http://www.shorpy.com/node/4540

  • Ninomojo (unregistered) in reply to Slink
    Slink:
    It's a typo. He didn't shut it down, he shot it down.

    It's a typo. He didn't shot it down, he shat it down.

  • hey persto! (unregistered)

    Such an insecure lucky number! Don't you know it should contain a mixture of small and capital letters and non-alphanumeric characters?

  • Ranner (unregistered)

    The printer error comes up when you try to print multiple copies to the XPF/PDF printer in MS Office. The message could be more helpful and informative, but when you're printing to file it does make some sense not to allow someone to print 20 identical copies.

  • thomasvk (unregistered)

    I sent some pictures for Error'd, but apparently they weren't accepted or something, because I haven't seem them in the three Error'd posts since, so I'll just add them to the comments (let's hope it gets stickied ^^).

    This one I ran into when I returned home one night. It's an electronic board which used to display a traffic notice, but apparently something went wrong. [image]

    And a screencap from Gmail a few days ago (sorry for the extreme obfuscation in this one). [image]

    Hmm someone called Akismet says my comment is spam, and The Forum Software (tm) is taking its word for it. I have no idea how to prevent it, though. xD

  • ZoFreX (unregistered) in reply to Watson
    Watson:
    ZoFreX:
    I didn't think it would look very good if someone challenged me.
    So you wear an expression of cluelessness as you "stumble around" in a twisty maze of service screens, making selections "at random" looking for "something you recognise". If you're challenged you just say you're trying to use the ATM and you got lost. Drooling slightly at this point may be excessive.
    I like your style. Expression of cluelessness and drooling are two skills I am very practiced in. Noted for next time!
  • Johnno from 'Straya (unregistered) in reply to moz
    moz:
    ParkinT:
    Hayden Realtors are really desperate; offering clothing (Suit) to retail/owner/occupied/investor.
    There's a much simpler explanation than that. As recently revealed on the sidebar, Australians don't write in English. That explains why the sign contains words such as "sqm", "approx" and "carspaces". It wouldn't surprise me to discover that the "«contactone» «contactonephone»" stuff made perfect sense in their language.

    I think the problem may actually be 'for'....

    It's suggesting that it would suit any of them.
    To me it sounds like they meant [i] would suit[/b] rather than [i]suite for[/b] (the latter sounding awkward anyways)....

  • Johnno from 'Straya (unregistered) in reply to Johnno from 'Straya
    Johnno from 'Straya:
    moz:
    ParkinT:
    Hayden Realtors are really desperate; offering clothing (Suit) to retail/owner/occupied/investor.
    There's a much simpler explanation than that. As recently revealed on the sidebar, Australians don't write in English. That explains why the sign contains words such as "sqm", "approx" and "carspaces". It wouldn't surprise me to discover that the "«contactone» «contactonephone»" stuff made perfect sense in their language.

    I think the problem may actually be 'for'....

    It's suggesting that it would suit any of them.
    To me it sounds like they meant [i] would suit[/b] rather than [i]suite for[/b] (the latter sounding awkward anyways)....

    And as for the link (as was probably said in relatin to the original article) it's clear there is an extra warning that is required in Australia but not in the UK ('This product may contain....'). The locale is not only about translation, there are often warnings that are required in some countries and not others. We don't want to panic the POMs by warning them about possible gluten/soy/milk/nuts etc

    Antyway, everyone knows Aussies speak Austrich....Obiously Ozzie Ostrich never made TV in Seppoland....

  • (cs) in reply to Quietust
    Quietust:
    lesle:
    zeno:
    <sarcasm>trwtf is having 23 as a favorite number.</sarcasm>

    ...it supposedly is where the slang expression "23 skidoo" comes from...

    Silly me - here I thought it was a reference to Discordianism.

    Yeh, 23 makes a lousy secret number for that reason. One week a few years back, the winning numbers in the UK national lottery included 17 and 23, and also 42; that week the top prize was shared by 133 people - an order of magnitude more than ever before or since, and presumably all Discordian SF fans.

  • (cs) in reply to Eric
    Eric:
    How do you shut down an atm?

    Given it rebooted to the service menu, I'm assuming one of the options was "shut down".

  • (cs) in reply to David
    David:
    On a more serious note - I've had a similar Google Analytics message. It offered me the option of saying yes I DID to trust Google to access my Google data, and grant access. Then it sent me a blank window. Presumably if I trusted Google, I was too naive to be trusted with any data BY Google.
    The Barber of Gooville only trusts those who do not trust the Barber of Gooville. Does the Barber of Gooville trust himself or not?
  • (cs) in reply to Jaybird
    Jaybird:
    Note to photoshopper: If you are going to fake an ATM screenshot, please include the Spanish translation of all on-screen instructions, including "Fuck You."
    ¡Jódete!
  • (cs) in reply to AndyCanfield
    AndyCanfield:
    Two nights ago, in an HTML class, we were attempting to write a web page. One student has a Mac. He tried to do it using 'textedit' but textedit refused to save in ASCII. A text editor that refuses to edit text!

    Last night we tried OpenOffice.org and on save got the error message 'You can not save this file with the extension ".html"; the required extension is ".txt". ' I do not yet know if this is a Mac damnation or OpenOffice.org version 3 damnation.

    Tonight he will use a computer with Windows.

    And, if it has the default settings, he will get a file that displays as filename.html but is actually filename.html.txt instead.
  • The 2-Belo (unregistered)

    Hmm. Regarding the "FUCK YOU" ATM screen, it's quite obvious that no one has seen the first scene of the movie Maximum Overdrive...

  • iMalc (unregistered) in reply to Sucky SQL Dufus
    Sucky SQL Dufus:
    Re: ATM

    I bet Kevin programmed it.

    Don't be silly, it was probably just someone like Kevin.

  • (username *)me (unregistered)
  • G-man (unregistered)

    The Google thing reminded me of Windows firewall popping up (in a very rare occasion) leting me decide if Halo.exe (the MS game) is safe application to run.

  • (cs) in reply to Cyan
    Cyan:
    The mp3 version of the ".pdf.pdf" bug has been seen before too: http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/The-Best-of-Both-Worlds.aspx. (Just found it by hitting Random Article.)

    Such an easy programming error to make as it happens, just get a boolean operator wrong, so == instead of != or put the wrong logic into the if() and else() clauses.

    Something I have done a few times and then spent time debugging to find out why the code didn't work. I am not alone as I have seen others commit this kind of bug too.

  • Mayhem (unregistered) in reply to Lorne Kates
    Lorne Kates:
    Steve the Cynic:
    "Unexpected" rather than "unknown". ... I always like to see the Windows system message for a sharing violation: "The file is in use by another process". Great, which file, and which process?

    FWIW, there's a great little program for that, Unlocker.

    http://ccollomb.free.fr/unlocker/

    Runs as a service and adds a context menu. Right click on a locked file, and it'll tell you which programs are locking it. It can remove the locks, and/or kill the locking processes. Very, very handy to have.

    Very nice, but it still doesn't help with his original point which is that windows copy won't tell you which particular file is the one that is locked, you have to go by guesswork. It isn't until you know which one it is that tools like unlocker can assist.

    acsi, a character set for dyslexics?

  • Burpy (unregistered) in reply to AndyCanfield
    AndyCanfield:
    Two nights ago, in an HTML class, we were attempting to write a web page. One student has a Mac. He tried to do it using 'textedit' but textedit refused to save in ASCII. A text editor that refuses to edit text!

    The WTF being someone having so much spare time he can waste it in an HTML classroom. Anyway, got to go. My shoelaces tying class begins in 10 minutes.

    P.S. Not to mention de fact that reading "HTML class" nearly gave me a heart attack before understanding what you meant by class...

  • (cs)

    Look at Harrison Lee Partners, here:

    http://www.alliedassetservices.com/alertsg-m.html

  • vk (unregistered) in reply to AndyCanfield
    Two nights ago, in an HTML class, we were attempting to write a web page. One student has a Mac. He tried to do it using 'textedit' but textedit refused to save in ASCII. A text editor that refuses to edit text!

    I tried that without any problem. TextEdit only asks if it should use the default extension ".txt" or if it should use ".html"

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