View Full Version : 13 greatest error messages of all time
thegoatman
09-24-2008, 11:23 AM
http://technologizer.com/2008/09/18/errormessage/
I like this. Apparently there was a BSOD in the Beijing olympics. Also, there IS a Red Screen of Death, which apparently replaces the BSOD in vista when there's a boot error of some sort.
Among my favorites is the Unix LP0 on fire (which is apparently used for most printer errors lol), some microblogging site's error message that includes a picture of a happy-looking whale being lifted out of the sea by a bunch of birds, and the old Amiga "Guru Meditation" message.
twilyth
09-24-2008, 11:29 AM
not a computer error message, but one received at a help desk.
Problem - ethernet jack had been dislodged
incident report - jack off on wall. :D
Sparky
09-24-2008, 02:36 PM
lp0 on fire :ROTF:
thegoatman
09-24-2008, 02:41 PM
Hey, it was possible that they could catch fire, so they decided to just blanket all undefiend errors with that message to be on the safe side lol...
Th3MadScientist
09-24-2008, 07:41 PM
http://i98.photobucket.com/albums/l244/DaNiceOne87/10_ReBootMSWin_1.jpg
chinaguy
09-24-2008, 08:09 PM
I remember 20 years ago the BSOD for the Sun Workstations was a large MUSHROOM CLOUD! This upset all the QUICHE eater in the building!
Nanometer
09-24-2008, 08:52 PM
I remember 20 years ago the BSOD for the Sun Workstations was a large MUSHROOM CLOUD! This upset all the QUICHE eater in the building!
why, is there mushroom in quiche?
Slovnaft
09-25-2008, 06:15 AM
occasionally, but i didn't really get the joke either...
twilyth
09-25-2008, 06:52 AM
quiche eaters i think are people who are make it a point to be politically correct. What we might call arugula eating elitists now. And a mushroom cloud logo in Asia generally would probably be considered bad taste given Hiroshima and Nagasaki. that's my guess anyway. :shrug:
chinaguy
09-27-2008, 04:59 AM
Well I am sorry you did not get the joke! There was a famous article written on Bitnet all thise years ago. The Bitnet was the forerunner of www, but it had intellectual properties that today’s internet doesn’t poses. The article was tiltle “Real Programmers Don’t Eat Quiche”. You should try and find it and give it a read.
Yes the mushroom cloud was the result of an atomic/nuclear explosion which our quiche eating friends found offensive. Which was strange as we where working at Harwell! Which was home of the British A Bomb.
MikeB12
09-27-2008, 05:31 AM
It's 9:30am here, and that sounds pretty darn good...
http://img508.imageshack.us/img508/9154/83137233ck1.jpg
Polizei
09-27-2008, 12:53 PM
Brocoli cheese quiche? Tasty.
chinaguy
09-28-2008, 07:35 AM
Well here for breakfast its steak and eggs!
drizzt5
09-28-2008, 03:40 PM
Nice, lol it was a good read. Has anyone encountered this RSoD on vista yet? I never knew it existed :/
Martijn
09-29-2008, 12:10 PM
I am missing one:
During bootup without a keyboard: 'No keyboard detected, press any key to continue'. Still pretty common nowadays.
RPGWiZaRD
09-30-2008, 08:28 AM
I remember some of the old FPS games had some weird error messages that made me laugh, can't remember what it said right now though.
zanzabar
09-30-2008, 11:49 AM
they missed one of the best ones, i changed the ram in my old 939 to put my ecc 2GB in and it had a load ass "overclocking failed" over and over again with the speakers maxed higher than i knew they could go
MomijiTMO
09-30-2008, 02:56 PM
LMAO I remember flying out of my seat when the DFI alarm went off.
No funny error messages here.
zanzabar
09-30-2008, 03:11 PM
it was an asus, but i they are probly similar, but since as a main rig i always use my SBA2 plat pro i never heard the dfi
Carlz0r
10-06-2008, 02:29 PM
I am missing one:
During bootup without a keyboard: 'No keyboard detected, press any key to continue'. Still pretty common nowadays.
Hah, I got that one the other day.
ahmad
10-06-2008, 08:33 PM
Check these out:
http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/Unprepared-For-Divide_By_Zero.aspx
http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/dog-eats-man.aspx
http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/Not-a-Good-Sign.aspx
That website is so limited. With so many programmers these days, the possibilities are endless.
CorruptHawkeyez
10-07-2008, 06:07 AM
How in the heck am I supposed to understand this?
http://eliteflyers.org/images/error.JPG
Moneyless
10-07-2008, 07:12 AM
Lmao, those are hilarious... and I didn't even know RSoDs existed... :eek:
Corrupt;3339834']How in the heck am I supposed to understand this?
http://eliteflyers.org/images/error.JPG
I would love for the "Accept items and continue" button to bring to a screen that says "Bull:banana::banana::banana::banana:".
vservera
10-15-2008, 12:14 AM
OMG :) nice errors:)
Just saw one the other day at the MSI Iron tech competition
http://www.breakthelimit.net/images/msi%20iron%20tech/DSC_0207.jpg
Had them as wel with Vista, rather weird first time :D
Hefner
10-17-2008, 11:31 AM
My fav from the HPs at work
If you don't plug a keyboard in, when it boots it informs you that
"no keyboard inserted. Press F2 to continue"
:D