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Funny Errors

by Chris "DiGi" Timberlake · in General Discussion · 08/01/2005 (6:07 pm) · 11 replies

You know i don't think this has been done, so i figuared i'd start one. Ever get an error thats funny as heck? Oh! I know you GG Guys get some! Post um! Heres mine.


MySQL ERROR: 'Access denied for user 'darkness'@'host-**-***-8-216.***-mt.client.bresnan.net' (using password: YES)'
MySQL ERROR: 'MySQL server has gone away'
MySQL ERROR: 'MySQL server has gone away'

Well, Whered it go?
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Torque Owner Matthew Grint
#1
08/01/2005 (6:21 pm)
My favourite error has to be in Eudora when you try and schedule it to send a message before the current date:
ERROR - I know you hda to send this message yesterday, but I just can't do it unti my time machine gets back from the shop.

It isn't sad to have a favourite error is it?

Associate Alex Scarborough
#2
08/01/2005 (6:27 pm)
"Undefined symbols: " Ya. Lot of good that does me. There are undefined symbols. Great. What are they?! (This is thrown out by GCC3 on my Mac whenever I have a function prototyped but not implemented.)

"Error: Unknown error" I've never had that one myself, but I've seen screeshots, from Ben if I recall correctly.

Torque 3D Owner Chris "DiGi" Timberlake
#3
08/01/2005 (6:31 pm)
Lol, Unknown Error? Only Ben . . . ;)

Associate Jaimi McEntire
King of Flapjacks
#4
08/01/2005 (6:49 pm)
A little background -- We had this guy at the office "Jerry" that had a huge ego, and always thought he was our boss (he wasn't). we always ended up having to rewrite his stuff because it was horrible. Anyway, my favorite error is the old windows network error that always spawned from his computer: "The master browser has recieved a server event from JERRY that believes it is the master browser". Even his computer had an ego.

Torque Owner Jason Swearingen
#5
08/01/2005 (6:53 pm)
Something along the lines of "An error has occured in your application. Contact your System Administrator for support"

I mean heck.. how is that error message any more useful than ERROR: Something done broke!

Which while funny, shows the usefullness for real error reporting and handling...

Torque Owner Magnus Blikstad
#6
08/01/2005 (6:59 pm)
Personally I like the error you get get at startup on some computers when you have no keyboard connected; "No keyboard is present or keyboard error. Press F1 to continue..."

Torque Owner Drew Hitchcock
#7
08/01/2005 (7:05 pm)
"Unknown error occured while accessing unnamed file"

I think it was an MFC error, I remember literally laughing out loud when I first saw it.

Torque Owner Gabrial Hartnett
#8
08/02/2005 (9:06 am)
My personal favorite is:
"An Error has occured. Press any key to continue."
" [Crash] "

Yes the dialog only had a single button and it was labeled "Crash", sure enough you clicked that button for the blue screen... Sometimes being hired as a consultant to fix someone else's code really stinks...

Andrew
#9
08/28/2005 (1:38 am)
In halflife I remember trying to connect to a server and getting: 'Error: No error'.

Robert Brim
#10
08/28/2005 (8:33 pm)
Quote:Something along the lines of "An error has occured in your application. Contact your System Administrator for support"

I especially like that one on my home system where I am the sys admin, and I have no clue what broke.

Torque Owner Teck Lee Tan
#11
08/28/2005 (10:01 pm)
I know what you mean. Everytime I get that error at home, I almost invariably scream out "I AM the sysadmin!"

:p