• krupa (unregistered)

    The first bluescreen picture also appears to be from the UK. The sign behind the kiosk says "Ground carpark". In the US, we usually just saying "Parking"

  • fruey (unregistered) in reply to krupa
    krupa:
    The first bluescreen picture also appears to be from the UK. The sign behind the kiosk says "Ground carpark". In the US, we usually just saying "Parking"

    It says "victoria station" which is probably the London train station.

  • Anon (unregistered)

    There is also a large sign saying "Victoria Station".

  • krupa (unregistered) in reply to fruey
    fruey:
    krupa:
    The first bluescreen picture also appears to be from the UK. The sign behind the kiosk says "Ground carpark". In the US, we usually just saying "Parking"

    It says "victoria station" which is probably the London train station.

    I saw that, but I was thinking it might be the name of the store right there. It doesn't seem to be a free-standing sign, but part of the structure next to the store's entry. Also, the signs above don't say Tube or Underground, or whatever it's called these days.

  • Fiona (unregistered)

    :O Oh my God! Broardmarsh is on dailywtf!

    I know it very, very well...

  • RB (unregistered)

    The image from Broadmarsh is without a doubt the largest blue screen I have ever seen - congrats on that one. Can anyone top it? Anyone have a blue screen on Piccadilly Circus or something?

    Captcha: trifluromethylphenylpiperazine

  • krupa (unregistered) in reply to RB
    RB:
    The image from Broadmarsh is without a doubt the largest blue screen I have ever seen - congrats on that one. Can anyone top it? Anyone have a blue screen on Piccadilly Circus or something?

    Captcha: trifluromethylphenylpiperazine

    Recirculated a lot:Vegas, Baby!. This sign is pretty big. It's hard to tell if it's bigger than the mall or not.

  • (cs)
    Please enter a unique 16-digit prime number when prompted.
    Where's the WTF? Just enter 4222124650659841 and you're good to go!
  • Teppo (unregistered) in reply to RB
    RB:
    Can anyone top it? Anyone have a blue screen on Piccadilly Circus or something?

    How about this?

    http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/toronto/biggest-bsod-of-all-time-320824.php

  • JonC (unregistered) in reply to krupa
    krupa:
    The first bluescreen picture also appears to be from the UK. The sign behind the kiosk says "Ground carpark". In the US, we usually just saying "Parking"

    It's not from the UK, we don't have Myer or Coles (just above the car park sign) over here. Possibly Australian?

  • krupa (unregistered) in reply to JonC
    JonC:
    krupa:
    The first bluescreen picture also appears to be from the UK. The sign behind the kiosk says "Ground carpark". In the US, we usually just saying "Parking"

    It's not from the UK, we don't have Myer or Coles (just above the car park sign) over here. Possibly Australian?

    Definitely Australian.

    Myer Store Locator

  • mike (unregistered) in reply to krupa
    krupa:
    JonC:
    krupa:
    The first bluescreen picture also appears to be from the UK. The sign behind the kiosk says "Ground carpark". In the US, we usually just saying "Parking"

    It's not from the UK, we don't have Myer or Coles (just above the car park sign) over here. Possibly Australian?

    Definitely Australian.

    Myer Store Locator

    Do you have FCUK stores in Australia?

  • Bill (unregistered) in reply to fruey

    It also says Myer, which is Australian I think...

  • Dave (unregistered) in reply to Bill

    All the 16 digit prime's I know aren;t unique :(

  • mabinogi (unregistered) in reply to JonC
    JonC:
    krupa:
    The first bluescreen picture also appears to be from the UK. The sign behind the kiosk says "Ground carpark". In the US, we usually just saying "Parking"

    It's not from the UK, we don't have Myer or Coles (just above the car park sign) over here. Possibly Australian?

    Coles - Australian. Myer - Australian. Victoria Station, Australian. David Jones - Australian.

    The only NON Australian thing there is the BSOD and the FCUK (which yes, we do get in Australian) It couldn't be more Australian if there was Kangaroo road kill.

  • anon (unregistered) in reply to mabinogi

    In fact, even the Target is Australian, as Australian Target is a completely unaffiliated company to the US one. (Though they licensed the logo to avoid lawsuits)

  • (cs) in reply to RB
    RB:
    Captcha: trifluromethylphenylpiperazine

    Worst drug EVAR

  • RB (unregistered)

    Wow, I think Toronto wins it for the biggest BSOD. I notice that in the comments for that article, someone has suggested it may be a clever marketing campaign by Apple. I've never thought of that but the more I do - well, that is actually genius. I even remember seeing a BSOD on an Apple branded kiosk in an Apple shop. I wondered what the hell they were doing running Windows as their kiosk O/S - but I guess maybe they weren't!

  • Pez (unregistered) in reply to Fiona
    Fiona:
    :O Oh my God! Broardmarsh is on dailywtf!

    I know it very, very well...

    Used to spend many a morning walking through the Broadmarsh after a heavy night out in Notts. Can't believe it's a Westfield shopping centre now - they're taking over the world!

  • Hubert (unregistered) in reply to krupa

    Showing message after entering some obvious code (like room number etc) is a common way to delay the message if you cannot see it in private (some other person is looking) and you don't want to show it.

  • (cs) in reply to mike
    mike:
    Do you have FCUK stores in Australia?
    The time has come again for me to trot out this wonderful photo of a Pitts S-1C Special![image]
  • (cs)

    Wow, I'm surprised so few people have commented on the dialog asking the user to enter a 16-digit prime number. That definitely belongs in the UI Hall of Shame.

    I'm thinking about rewriting my apps to require users to manually enter GUIDs for new records.

  • my_math_is_not_well (unregistered) in reply to DoctorFriday
    DoctorFriday:
    Please enter a unique 16-digit prime number when prompted.
    Where's the WTF? Just enter 4222124650659841 and you're good to go!

    I have no idea what a unique prime is, but wikipedia says there's only one with 16 digits.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unique_prime

    Which makes it even more WTF-y. I mean, why prompt for it when there's only one valid input?

  • (cs)

    I didn't know that My Business TV has it's own Internetz. And, cheeze, I would like to have this screen from Broadmarsh centre as my TV for playing GT5.

  • (cs) in reply to Hubert

    ???

  • jkupski (unregistered) in reply to my_math_is_not_well
    my_math_is_not_well:
    I have no idea what a unique prime is, but wikipedia says there's only one with 16 digits.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unique_prime

    Which makes it even more WTF-y. I mean, why prompt for it when there's only one valid input?

    Well, technically, 0000000000000002 would be a 16 digit prime number... Zero padding FTW!

  • Dan (unregistered)

    Here's your prime: 1125899839733759

  • Smartguy (unregistered)

    Pick an internet? I'd say, internet 2!

    http://www.internet2.edu/

  • Mike Dimmick (unregistered)

    Broadmarsh Centre BSOD:

    STOP code 0x0000008E is KMODE_EXCEPTION_NOT_HANDLED (an exception, occurring in kernel mode code, was not handled). In user mode not handling an exception will crash your process; in kernel mode, it crashes the system.

    The first parameter is the exception code that wasn't handled. 0xC0000005 is STATUS_ACCESS_VIOLATION, i.e. code referenced memory in a non-permitted way. This typically means nothing was allocated at that address, in kernel mode, or writing to read-only memory.

    Windows is pointing the finger at ativvaxx.dll, which I imagine is part of an ATI video driver. It could be that something else passed it a bad address, but drivers should be careful to wrap references to user-supplied addresses in __try/__except blocks to guard against this. I reckon it's a plain programming error.

  • Anony (unregistered) in reply to krupa

    Maybe it was the 'Victoria Station' sign that gave it away...

  • apaq11 (unregistered) in reply to krupa

    Please enter a 16 digit prime number? That's pretty excessive. Maybe I can just give it 16 one digit prime numbers and call it even?

  • Richard (unregistered) in reply to krupa
    krupa:
    Definitely Australian.

    Myer Store Locator

    No way! In Australia, blue screens are the other way up.

  • Greg (unregistered)

    Recycled Errords suck. http://thedailywtf.com/Comments/That-Internet-Over-There.aspx

  • (cs) in reply to apaq11
    apaq11:
    Please enter a 16 digit prime number? That's pretty excessive. Maybe I can just give it 16 one digit prime numbers and call it even?
    There aren't sixteen one-digit prime numbers... unless... unless you don't arbitrarily limit yourself to decimal! And who says that your radix has to be an integer? Pick an irrational number as your radix, and *all* primes will (technically) be one-digit! Of course, it'll take multiple decimal digits to express a single digit of base-e, but oh well. :^)
  • CaptainObvious (unregistered) in reply to my_math_is_not_well
    my_math_is_not_well:
    I have no idea what a unique prime is, but wikipedia says there's only one with 16 digits.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unique_prime

    Which makes it even more WTF-y. I mean, why prompt for it when there's only one valid input?

    Hardcoding constants is bad, mmm'kay?

  • (cs)

    OK, I give up. What does the top logo on the back of the charger mean? That you can bring it into your house, but you can't take it out again?

  • SchizoDuckie (unregistered)

    16 digit prime number for whoeever wants to try: 1000000000000037

    That has gót to be the most awesome error message i've ever seen

  • sep332 (unregistered) in reply to krupa

    3093215881333057 1746860020068409 9999999900000001

    I could only find three - any other suggestions?

  • sep332 (unregistered) in reply to sep332

    OK, slightly beat out - don't know why I didn't see the other comments.

    Anyway I found a great primality checker: http://www.alpertron.com.ar/ECM.HTM handles 16-digit numbers in <1 sec. on my machine.

  • Sid2K7 (unregistered)

    The sign on top of the power supply means:

    "For indoor use only"

  • Anonymous Coward (unregistered) in reply to mabinogi
    mabinogi:
    JonC:
    krupa:
    The first bluescreen picture also appears to be from the UK. The sign behind the kiosk says "Ground carpark". In the US, we usually just saying "Parking"

    It's not from the UK, we don't have Myer or Coles (just above the car park sign) over here. Possibly Australian?

    Coles - Australian. Myer - Australian. Victoria Station, Australian. David Jones - Australian.

    The only NON Australian thing there is the BSOD and the FCUK (which yes, we do get in Australian) It couldn't be more Australian if there was Kangaroo road kill.

    That's good eatin!

  • Meesta Turner (unregistered) in reply to krupa

    I can see the FCUK shop sign reflection (right hand side), so unless French Connection opened globally, gotta be from good old Blighty!

  • car912 (unregistered)

    The Samsung/TSST/Toshiba firmware "LiveUpdate" program is filled with Engrish. You could have a whole series of screen shots from just that program alone.

  • Ed (unregistered)

    The Samsung Odd was a rather apt name.

    Of course, we all know what Samsung means.

  • keath (unregistered) in reply to apaq11

    If you can think of 16 unique digits, give it a go.

  • Mark B (unregistered) in reply to apaq11

    I wouldnt have though there would be that many 16 digit prime numbers, so getting a unique one would be pritty damn imposible.

  • Frunobulax (unregistered) in reply to keath
    keath:
    If you can think of 16 unique digits, give it a go.

    0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, A, B, C, D, E, F I think it's called Hexadecimal or something like that...

  • Anon (unregistered) in reply to mike
    mike:
    Do you have FCUK stores in Australia?
    Umm it stands for French Connection United Kingdom. French Connection Hong Kong is FCHK, so I'd guess that Australia would be FCAU since that doesn't sound dodgy its probally just FC.
  • Jim Leonard (unregistered) in reply to apaq11
    apaq11:
    Please enter a 16 digit prime number? That's pretty excessive. Maybe I can just give it 16 one digit prime numbers and call it even?

    Well, you wouldn't be able to call your 16-digit number prime if it was even, now could you?

  • (cs)

    No-one seems to have pointed out the major WTF with the message retrieval.. what if you type someone else's room number? Can you listen to other people's messages??

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