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Error'd features fun error messages and other visual oddities from the world of IT.
Now I hate to go off topic and post something that probably should be on slickdeals, but this Faberge egg from amazon is too good a deal to pass up. (And hell yeah that's a referral link! If it goes back up to 2.5 mil and one of you buys it, we're buying another yacht.)
(submitted by Quarnel)
Glenn L. was surprised to find that he was outside the continuum of supported browsers for some random web site. Perhaps it was designed for exactly IE 6.0.2000.21342 or something.
Originally published in Julalicious on July 7, 2006.
Talk about versatile, J.B. Langston was thrilled to see that Remedy's call tracking system is able to handle Xanthemedies' complaint about broken amphorae on his olive shipment from 352 BC ...
Any bets as to which John Y. should pick if he actually wants to reset to factory defaults?
"This just in: our clock has been adjusted for daylight savings time. To find out why you should be terrified by this and other things, tune in at 11:00."
(submitted by Neil W.)
In general, I'd say I'm pretty happy with my name. My parents once told me that I was almost named "Cecil," which wouldn't have sat well with me (no offense to all you Cecils out there). Still, I'd choose "Cecil" over "Failed to convert to string from variant type 1 Vinson."
(submitted by Joe T.)
I'd always assumed the AAC format stood for something along the lines of "Awesome Audio Compression;" it had never even occurred to me that it had anything to do with forestry. Think about that next time you're illegally downloading music; you're not only killing Metallica, you're killing forests and bald eagles and crap. And Smokey Bear's band.
(submitted by James W.)
David comes from the harsh, dystopian future of 1984; a time where surveillance is unavoidable and just considering joining peepel.com is a thoughtcrime. Or maybe it's just a bug in peepel's software.
Aaron C. was noticing some slowness and occasional loss of his internet connection. I'm no expert, but I'd bet that the problem could be the 2.1 billion db noise margin on the line.
Generally I write an intro paragraph about each Error'd submission. I don't know what to say this time, though, as musiciansfriend.com has beaten me to the punch.
(submitted by Jeff D.)
It's hard for me not to editorialize (read: include streams of profanities) in my code. And the screenshot below illustrates that I'm not alone. The key difference is that I actually declare all of the functions that I intend to call. Check it out yourself if you've got IE (mouse over the drawing canvas).
(submitted by Trent G.)
You may not know this about Windows Media Player, but it knows secrets about you. It's aware of your man-crush on Sean Connery, it knows about what you did with your roommate's toothbrush, and it knows that you threw up in your tuba during 10th grade marching band practice. What you may not know is that it can only hold a finite amount of secrets, and once it hits that limit it'll start blabbing all your secrets to your iPod.
Originally published in Pop-up Potpourri: Chocolate Covered SQL on January 18, 2007.
Sean K. Moran shares this tip from the Most Helpful FAQ Ever ...
Originally published in Pop-up Potpourri: The Really Windy City on January 02, 2007.
And I thought Chicago was the Windy City. At least Adrian Ritchie and all the other folks from Guernsey shouldn't have any trouble flying a kite ... with an 80,000 ton weight attached to it ...
Originally published in Pop-up Potpourri: Chocolate Covered SQL on January 18, 2007.
Toby Gray, that's just not fair! How come my chocolate covered raisins never come with any SQL?
Lost in Translation was published in an original manner February in 14, 2007.
Peter T. had, a fantastic time of the entertainment which tried to decipher what required this vigilant case of him. He could calculate towards outside, although, which it checkbox would prevent that different alarm time appears.
Originally published in Pop-up Potpourri: Sixth Time is the Charm on January 6, 2006, Shaddin sent in a strange and hurtful database connection error message.
Now we all know what it's like to be rejected, but who really is prepared to handle this type of rejection from CVS/Eclipse?
Taking a cue from Apple, Sparco has designed the simplest and most elegant calculator UI ever (click here to purchase). In fact, it does one better than Apple (who offers one button) by offering no buttons. If any readers manage to pull off a UI like this for the OMGWTF contest, I'll be impressed.
(submitted by Diego P.)
Chad Ross works at a Certain State Agency and is unable to send any emails to his client, Mr. Gookin. The CSA's content filter just keeps blocking Chad's outgoing emails, complaining that they contain racist content. More specifically, the filter finds Mr. Gookin's last name to be particularly offensive. Because the CSA's IT administrator refuses to add “Gookin” to the filter's safe word list, Chad is left with the daunting task of asking Mr. Gookin to change his last name to something a little less racist. Now if only he could send out that email request to do so ...
Apr 07
