Error Message Humor 4

[BJCooperIT]

A Dozen Little Known Error Messages:

1. Smash forehead on keyboard to continue.

2. Enter any 11-digit prime number to continue.

3. Press any key to continue or any other key to quit.

4. Close your eyes and press escape three times.

5. Bad command or file name! Go stand in the corner.

6. Press any key except... no, No, NO, NOT THAT ONE!

7. Error saving file! Format drive now? (Y/Y)

8. BREAKFAST.SYS halted... Cereal port not responding.

9. File not found. Should I fake it? (Y/N)

10. Bad or missing mouse. Spank the cat? (Y/N)

11. Error reading FAT record: Try the SKINNY one? (Y/N)

12. User Error: Replace user.

^{Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance. ~George Bernard Shaw}
Consultant/Custom Forms & PL/SQL - Oracle 8.1.7 - Windows 2000

 

[SQLSister]

In that vein,

http://somethingawful.com/nointelligence/

 

[Onyxpurr]

Great one SQLSister!!!

I can't tell you how aggravated I get when browsing the internet and come upon hideous webpages, pages that won't load, pages that aren't active, or ones that return an error.

Especially when I was going to school and would think to myself, "Now I've only had .asp for two weeks, but even I could do a better job than that!!!"

 

[jcrater]

"method ~ of object ~ failed"

 

[Tarwn]

Onyx: I've had ASP a bit longer

What I love doing is hitting a big name site and seeing it paste up a nice error message in the middle of the screen...I quickly copy and paste and send it to them, along with the 3 page explanation on how to solve it, the dangers involved in doing things certain ways (which are determinable by how the error message comes up and which error message it is) and also explain small "invisible" details of their system. I actually got back an email oncve that accused me of hacking their system, because "their was no way you know that much about our site unless you have seen the code"

on another note: Could someone tell me which apps use the "spank the cat" and file fakery error messages? I know I have seen those before (in fact I remember coffee coming out of the wrong orifice for the mouse one), but I can't remember where now...

_{01000111 01101111 01110100 00100000 01000011 01101111 01100110 01100110 01100101 01100101 00111111}
The never-completed website:

http://www.tiernok.com/

 

[jrbarnett]

My own tactic is if I find a really poorly designed website I will submit it to webpagesthatsuck.com for possible inclusion in the Daily Sucker awards.
My best so far is a sales/marketing/ad promotion company that had all the text as javascript mouseover images, so there was no way any search engine would index it, and it took absolutely ages to load.
I haven't (yet) seen one of mine put up there, but its only a matter of time.

John