non-sensical error messages ftw!

[Garp]

http://www.paulgraydon.co.uk/images/error.jpg

[Haly]

:shocked:

[Fayshun]

WTF?

I got a dialogue box pop up yesterday when I changed my Citrix password "Your password has been"

Has been what?

[Stan_Lite]

Don't mock.

It probably took some Mexican with an English phrase book an hour to write that ;D

Stan :)

[kaiowas]

I'd just hope that the problem isn't continued.

I don't like the sound of executing any below modifications, directly or otherwise. :shocked:

[Will]

I don't know why but I found that awesome! :D

[Treefrog]

I've recently noticed a red outline box appearing every now and again on my PC with a "Guru Meditation" number!

For those unfamiliar with the term, it's the Amiga version of the boring error message.

[Mark]

Yeah, that one was a classic. If you're feeling nostalgic, wikipedia has an example (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guru_Meditation) :)

[kaiowas]

So it's true. Somewhere under all the piles of superfluous crap, windows is actually based on the mighty AmigaOS :D :cool: ;)

[Garp]

I've recently noticed a red outline box appearing every now and again on my PC with a "Guru Meditation" number!

Running winamp by any chance?

[Flibster]

Aaaah....I love error messages.

Had one on Linux once. Printer on Fire!

Errrrrm...

We've got some great error messages in our software - many of them will never been seen. Including a Homer "D'OH!" and a Homer "Arrgghh Boogeyman!"

But the Guru Meditation is possibly my favourite error message EVER!

Simon/~Flibster

[Mark]

We've got some great error messages in our software - many of them will never been seen. Including a Homer "D'OH!" and a Homer "Arrgghh Boogeyman!"
You say that until it happens. There was a somewhat insulting/swearing message that got into our software, and that was never supposed to be seen.

Until a customer saw it. :eek:

Someone's head rolled that day - not mine I should add.

[Daz]

Had one on Linux once. Printer on Fire!
There's a few geeky things like that in some of the kernel source:

printk(KERN_DEBUG "%s: BUG... transmitter died. Kicking it.\n",...)
linux-2.6.6/drivers/net/acenic.c
printk("VFS: Busy inodes after unmount. "
"Self-destruct in 5 seconds. Have a nice day...\n");
linux-2.3.99-pre8/fs/super.c
printk("autofs: Out of inode numbers -- what the heck did you do??\n");
linux-2.0.38/fs/autofs/root.c
printk("you lose buddy boy...\n");
linux-2.6.6/arch/sparc/kernel/traps.c
panic("%s called. This Does Not Happen (TM).", __FUNCTION__);
linux-2.6.6/arch/mips/mm-64/tlb-dbg-r4k.c
<3 fortune.

[Burble]

I got a bollocking a couple of years back for some of the error messages I put into a perl script. Mind you, if someone was stupid enough to get the script to error in that way then they deserved to be called a knob :D

[Daz]

;D

I'm messing about with some Ruby scripts at the moment. Might put some abuse in them for kicks :D

[Mark]

More...

panic("Damn it Jim! I'm a doctor, not a programmer! "
"Oh, wait a sec, I am a programmer. "
"And, who's Jim?!?!\n"
"Arrgghh! We've done it again!\n");
linux-2.6.6/drivers/message/fusion/mptlan.c
/* panic?? These should never occur in our application. */
linux-2.6.6/drivers/scsi/aic7xxx/aiclib.c
panic("do_trap: can't hit this");
linux-2.6.6/arch/i386/mm/extable.c
printk(KERN_ERR "happy meal: Transceiver and a coke please.");
linux-2.6.6/drivers/net/sunhme.c
/* When we have more time, we can teach the penguin to say
* "By your command" or "Activating turbo boost, Michael".
*/
linux-2.2.16/arch/sparc/prom/sun4prom.c

[Daz]

Excellent ;D

[Belmit]

I'm currently working on getting all the students on the internet in halls, and one of them brought in a laptop with IE7 on it. I got a prompt telling me that a website was not on my trusted sites and did I want to abort browsing to it. At that point, I didn't care but just wanted to stop the prompt appearing so I added it to the trusted sites.

When I browse to the site now I get a prompt saying 'You're trying to access a page on one of your trusted sites. Continue?'.

Gah!

[Treefrog]

Running winamp by any chance?

Aha! I saw that in the Cap'n's link and thought it might be the answer. But yes :)

[Treefrog]

So it's true. Somewhere under all the piles of superfluous crap, windows is actually based on the mighty AmigaOS :D :cool: ;)
Naah - it would be three times as efficient and half as buggy if it was ;)

[Skully]

For some strange and embarrasing reason whenever I see the "guru meditation" message on my Amiga, i say it in my head to the tune of "go go power rangers" :huh: ;D

[Garp]

When I browse to the site now I get a prompt saying 'You're trying to access a page on one of your trusted sites. Continue?'.

Gah!

That annoys me constantly. I'm all for the security features of IE, but once you've accepted a site it should stay so.

[PeterNem]

http://www.nemeiksas.com/forums/files/guru_meditation_171.gif

:D


If the cause of the crash is uncertain, this number is rendered as 48454C50, which stands for "HELP" in hexadecimal ASCII characters (48=H, 45=E, 4C=L, 50=P).

Is that rather cool, or am I just rather sad?!

[Mark]

Zarro Boogs found.
Not non-sensical, but has a little comedy value. :)

[Garp]

------> kern.log.0 <------
Aug 2 16:29:45 localhost kernel: Uhhuh. NMI received. Dazed and confused, but trying to continue
Aug 2 16:29:45 localhost kernel: You probably have a hardware problem with your RAM chips

From one of our servers today :D