Funniest error message you've seen?

[~LoKe]

Trying to get x4m running, the program was apparently coded by someone who speaks German.

One of the errors I'm getting is: "Du steuerst den Beamer"

Translated gives: "You drive the Beamer."

Okay!!

[manmower]

I always thought the guru meditation (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guru_Meditation) errors were pretty funny. At least they didn't pretend to be intelligible. :)

That wikipedia page links to the "Sad Mac", one I hadn't heard of or seen but is pretty funny too. Makes you wonder why MS settled for that horrid bsod.

[Voxxi]

Check out the Pop-up Potpourri (http://thedailywtf.com/Series/Pop-up_Potpourri.aspx), from TheDailyWtf.com.

My favorite is this one:

http://img221.imageshack.us/img221/1788/dumbdepfr2.th.jpg (http://img221.imageshack.us/my.php?image=dumbdepfr2.jpg)

Because, you know, Windows Explorer is dangerous,so very dangerous.

The weirdest error I have experienced was just a standard error box with the title "Error" and the message "Error". Nice information for debugging there...

Guess what OS I was using? ;)

[mcduck]

I've always thought that the error most BIOSes give when keyboard is kind of amusing.. It's something like 'No keyboard detected. Press Enter to continue'..

Of course it's just trying to tell you to connect the keyboard and then press enter, but it still sounds stupid :D

[TheSqueak]

I remember once, a long time ago, getting a Windows error which said


Reserved Error 17: There is no message for this error.

Which was really useful in working out what had happened.

[Cynical]

Error opening /dev/wacom : Success
(EE) xf86OpenSerial: Cannot open device /dev/wacom
No such file or directory.

[doobit]

Lately I've been getting the BSOD error without actually getting a BSOD. The dialog box pops up and explains what a stop error is and that I should pay attention to the error code, but there is no BSOD or error code.
Then the computer restarts and another box pops up and tells me Windows has just recovered from a serious error.

[Polygon]

ytmnd time!

if you have flash / mplayer extension for firefox installed, you even get some nice backround music :D (of course these are all windows errors :D )

http://windowserrorworks.ytmnd.com/
http://thereisnoerror.ytmnd.com/
http://windowsfirewallfails.ytmnd.com/
http://windowsjustbecause.ytmnd.com/
http://missingkeyboard.ytmnd.com/

not really an error, but still funny :D http://bearshare-is-sure.ytmnd.com/

and ManMower, this is the "sad mac" error (what the old Mac OS's gave when they crashed)

http://deadmac.ytmnd.com/

i know if i saw that late at night with the lights off that would freak me out...

[Somenoob]

I once saw an warning message from Internet Explorer about the content while visiting microsoft.com

[fuscia]

"it's the end of the world. press 'enter' to continue."

[null0]

http://neworder.box.sk/uploads/orig00004105.jpg
new and improved

[henriquemaia]

R Tape loading error, 0:1

The page you are trying to display is currently unavailable. There has probably been a disruption in the chuntey. You mum might have just walked into the room, your tea may be ready or the azimuth screw may need tweaking. Please try the following:

Click the http://www.chuntey.com/refresh.gif (http://www.chuntey.com/eightyone/index.html) Reload button to rewind the tape and try again.
If your mum just walked in, try locking the door and hiding that sticky pile of magazines under the bed.
Go and have your tea before it gets cold. The page will probably load just fine afterwards.
You may need to adjust your azimuth screw. Relax, concentrate and become one with the tape deck. Now listen to a tape as it plays. Using a small screwdriver, tweak away until the sound becomes clear and bright.
Some pages require 128k mode to load them. Select Load Tape from the 128k menu and try again. Alternatively, try loading the page into 48k compatibility mode.
If you are a Commodore user. Try removing all leads from the device, pick it up and place against an open door. Other suggestions are removing the keyboard and placing bread inside or sitting on it and defacating inside.

R Tape loading error, 0:1

http://www.chuntey.com/

[Josh1]

Lol when I load my computer and the BIOS blurts out there is no keyboard, I simply press enter and continue on loading my computer. :rolleyes:

[stalker145]

This used to be a rather humorous page on a business' site that had links to different products. It looks like someone has copied the page and linked it to their Amazon account to make some click-cash. It's still a funny page.


These Weapons of Mass Destruction cannot be displayed
The weapons for which you are looking are currently unavailable. The country might be experiencing technical difficulties, or you may need to adjust your weapons inspectors' mandate.

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Please try the following:

Click the Regime change button, or try again later.

If you are George Bush and typed the country's name in the address bar, make sure that it is spelled correctly. (IRAQ).

To check your weapons inspector settings, click the UN menu, and then click Weapons Inspector Options. On the Security Council tab, click Consensus. The settings should match those provided by your government or NATO.
If the Security Council has enabled it, The United States of America can examine your country and automatically discover Weapons of Mass Destruction.
If you would like to use the CIA to try and discover them,
click Detect weapons
Some countries require 128 thousand troops to liberate them. Click the Panic menu and then click About US foreign policy to determine what regime they will install.
If you are an Old European Country trying to protect your interests, make sure your options are left wide open as long as possible. Click the Tools menu, and then click on League of Nations. On the Advanced tab, scroll to the Head in the Sand section and check settings for your exports to Iraq.
Click the Bomb button if you are Donald Rumsfeld.



Cannot find weapons or CIA Error
Iraqi Explorer




http://www.timmonet.co.uk/html/wmderror.htm

[maxamillion]

Enter an invalid command to aptitude ... bottom of the output reads:

This aptitude does not have Super Cow Powers.

[bonzodog]

**link deleted as it contained inappropriate language** << This is funny. A mod changed the error that the forums gave out.....

[xmastree]

Ages ago I worked for Unisys, testing circuit boards. The tests were mostly run from a floppy. One board, a memory board IIRC, rarely failed so it was a real surprise to see on-screen one day:
"Parity Error. Well, that sucks!"

[picpak]

Ocassionally pacman in Arch Linux gives me this message:


Control socket read failed: Success

[kinematic]

:mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen:

[picpak]

Also, one time the Windows firewall blocked Firefox!

[insane_alien]

E000001-1: error code not found.

[mcduck]

Here's a funny 404 error page: http://koti.mbnet.fi/base_/omituiset/?menu=1

[petersjm]

Okay, you're not going to believe this, but I opened this thread and started reading all the errors, then got interrupted and had to do some work (it always gets in the way!). Anyway, I came back (I had the page still open in the background), finished reading page 1, then clicked for page 2 and... some vBoard or vControl or vSomething page loaded saying "Error. No such page"! It's working now, but that was weird :p

[FuturePilot]

This one's from Windows:p
http://img214.imageshack.us/img214/3350/warningzy2.jpg

This one's from Gimp in Windows.
http://img205.imageshack.us/img205/6746/gimpmessageie6.png
Funny how I never get errors in Ubuntu:D

[smoker]

anyone know a script that will pop up a warning if someone tries to login to your account, something along the lines of "Caught, You Bas***d!"

[rowanparker]

[/URL]**link deleted as it contained inappropriate language** << This is funny. A mod changed the error that the forums gave out.....
I don't know if you were refering to Mod-Free or not (as the link was removed).

But if you weren't, go to a thread at [url]http://mod-free.tk (http://modfree.2.forumer.com/index.php?act=Attach&type=post&id=5197) and then add a few numbers on to the thread number so it throws a "thread not found" error. This is Dave's great error message.

[mykalreborn]

http://neworder.box.sk/uploads/orig00004105.jpg
new and improved

lol! i sopose that's not for real?

[null0]

lol! i sopose that's not for real?
yeah microsoft would never release a buggy OS [-X :lol:
idk if it's real or not, but i'm testing vista and already got a blue screen when forced csrss.exe to terminate

[aPello]

http://www.uploadit.biz/uploads/images/hax6177.png

IE lol.

[mykalreborn]

yeah microsoft would never release a buggy OS [-X :lol:
idk if it's real or not, but i'm testing vista and already got a blue screen when forced csrss.exe to terminate

:p lol! i know windows is flawed. but i thought that bsods didn't happened since win98 or milenium

[PriceChild]

:p lol! i know windows is flawed. but i thought that bsods didn't happened since win98 or mileniumI remember when XP first came out and my friend got a new shiny lappy. He boasted this fact, and that XP is supposedly uncrashable.

I spent 5 minutes on it messing about with paint etc. before it gave out.... I was quite scared in the couple of minutes that followed hoping it would boot.

I'm still here :)

[mykalreborn]

I remember when XP first came out and my friend got a new shiny lappy. He boasted this fact, and that XP is supposedly uncrashable.

I spent 5 minutes on it messing about with paint etc. before it gave out.... I was quite scared in the couple of minutes that followed hoping it would boot.

I'm still here :)

lol!! i remember i once saw a video of bill gates introducing windows 98 in some kind of presentation. and while he was showing off windows, the system crashed and the good old bsod appeared. imagine the surprise - there was none, just a smile like he was caught ;) - og gates, when that happened.

[PriceChild]

lol!! i remember i once saw a video of bill gates introducing windows 98 in some kind of presentation. and while he was showing off windows, the system crashed and the good old bsod appeared. imagine the surprise - there was none, just a smile like he was caught ;) - og gates, when that happened.There's another one of him introducing Media Center on a talk show thing and the remote didn't work... he couldn't do anything...

[~LoKe]

There's another one of him introducing Media Center on a talk show thing and the remote didn't work... he couldn't do anything...

I saw that one.

[mykalreborn]

here are some videos of windows in "action":
http://youtube.com/watch?v=3yy51hIfIQU

most of them are pretty old, but it's allways a funny thing to mock windows a little more :p

[marx2k]

lol!! i remember i once saw a video of bill gates introducing windows 98 in some kind of presentation. and while he was showing off windows, the system crashed and the good old bsod appeared. imagine the surprise - there was none, just a smile like he was caught ;) - og gates, when that happened.

You know someone got the shaft after that :)

[bluedeer]

When I worked for a publishing company, I got this error message while trying to save a file in Photoshop. Since the supervisor didn't believe we'd been getting these odd messages, I captured this one and printed it out. (I labeled my copy "Stupid Mac Trick" and stuck it on my bulletin board.)

http://i134.photobucket.com/albums/q82/bluedeer/stupidmac.jpg

:-k

[Polygon]

This one's from Gimp in Windows.
http://img205.imageshack.us/img205/6746/gimpmessageie6.png
Funny how I never get errors in Ubuntu:D

wrong. I get that in ubuntu. Its not an error really, its more of a "notice" that a delay was put in to do exactly what it says it does, to prevent an "evil cpu sucking animation"

[3rdalbum]

Spotted in Epiphany when trying to complain about MSN Videos not working on Linux. Tell me that's NOT a dig at Microsoft IIS's security record!

Oh, and that "sad Mac" only came up if there's a problem when trying to load the OS or if the startup memory tests fail. It's not like you'd be working away at your computer and suddenly your whole screen would go blank with that error. That's an error screen that's built in the hardware, which only gets used when the operating system is not loaded.

The Macintosh Classic OS kernel panic error is this: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/bc/Macosbomb.png

[macogw]

Lately I've been getting the BSOD error without actually getting a BSOD. The dialog box pops up and explains what a stop error is and that I should pay attention to the error code, but there is no BSOD or error code.
Then the computer restarts and another box pops up and tells me Windows has just recovered from a serious error.
MS got rid of the BSOD in XP because it's "scary" so they just made it restart instead. If you tell it to send information itll open IE and tell you what the error was...sort of. It's still not very helpful. Slightly more helpful than "Windows has just recovered from a serious[ly undescriptive] error"

[dbbolton]

There's another one of him introducing Media Center on a talk show thing and the remote didn't work... he couldn't do anything...
it was on late night with conan o'brien, on one of the vegas episodes

[nalmeth]

Xbox Media Center used to occasionally give me an error saying (and I'm quoting):
Error:
Success

I have the screenshot somewhere, it always gave me a laugh.

Oh, and KDE (knotify) used to always give me:

Knotify has crashed launching Knotify

[nalmeth]

EDIT: Found it:

[yabbadabbadont]

I've never saw the error message, but one of the users of software I used to support did. It said, "Kill them. Kill them all!" :D

It was custom software for that customer and the error message was added at 3:00am one Saturday during a support call. The user was given the option at that time to have the code reworked properly, and get it in an hour, or a one minute hack with limitations. (and a stern warning to contact us before going beyond those limits) Guess which one he chose. :lol: It took two years or so before the right conditions occurred to cause the error to be displayed. He had a good laugh when I told him what the error meant.

[macogw]

I was reading in Practical C (learn to code book) that someone once put something like "User is an idiot" because he was going to be the only user. When a manager or something asked for an app and it was close, he modified it but forgot about the error. Of course, it did pop up for the manager.

[beercz]

During my programming days, I colleague used to use swear words like f**k and bo****ks for variable names.

Inevitably one of our poor customers, using software my colleague had written, suffered a crash, which reported an error similar to:


Error: f**k cannot be divided by zero!

Fortunately the customer had a good sense of humor and laughed about it when he phoned.

My colleague now uses sensible variable names.

[Pobega]

My personal favorite is "No keyboard attached, press Enter to continue". That gets me everytime.

[OrangeCrate]

I've racked my brain trying to remember exactly how and where I got this error message. It only happened once, but I still remember it after all these years.

I know for sure that it was on Win95, and I think the game was Hexen or Heretic.

After a crash of the game on one of the advanced levels, a screen showed up saying...

"Beam me up Scotty! Oh hell, that doesn't work either." It then gave an error code after that, and an instruction to reboot the game if I remember correctly.

[NESFreak]

Trying to get x4m running, the program was apparently coded by someone who speaks German.

One of the errors I'm getting is: "Du steuerst den Beamer"

Translated gives: "You drive the Beamer."

Okay!!

actually it means "you control the beamer". But yes German is quite an effective language. Traveling through i came across a sign "es ist verboten den weg zu verlassen - please keep on the road" (It is forbidden to leave the road - please keep on the road)

NESFreak

[red_five]

I read once about an accounting package that was written by a software company in Texas. A user kept trying a particular function, produced a more generic error message. Finally after several times with the same function failing, the program displayed: "Shut 'er down, Clancy, she's pumpin' mud!"

[Scarlett]

AutoDesk's first release of AutoCAD used to crash frequently with the notification "AutoCAD gives up". I liked that. It was honest. They changed it when (I think it was Bently) came out with the slogan "Microstation never gives up."

Recently I was having problems with some AV software loading a DV file. It had the extremely helpful failure notice of "something isn't working." Hmmm... no kidding?

[AndyW]

while installing an xbox softmod, I got this message

(this may take a some minutes - DO NOT TURN OFF YOUR XBOX...)

I felt reassured after this