A Pop-Up Potpourii Redux

George J. Capnias — Sun, 26 Jun 2005 15:06:27 GMT

Προσωπικά, φτιάχνω τέτοια μηνύματα σε προγράμματα... Τα θεωρώ σαν την εκδίκηση μου για τις ατελίωτες ώρες που περνάω να διορθώσω κώδικα που, είτε φαντάζομαι ότι είναι περιττά αυτά που κάνω, είτε τα κάνω για να ικανοποιήσω κάποιο καπρίτσιο ενός IT Manager. Μάλλον κάπως έτσι πρέπει να έχει η υπόθεση, αλλιώς δεν έχουν νόημα τα μηνύματα λάθους ορισμένων προγραμμάτων...

A couple months back, I posted a handful of different error messages that readers sent in. Quite a few of you replied to the post, adding even more error messages. That worked out very well, so here's to trying it again ...

First up is TomA, who came across this message while installing Britannica 2003. Some people believe in simply disabling the Minimize button. Others just tempt you with clicking it. Ironically, the installation failed despite the fact that Tom didn't click the "-" ...

Usually, a form will tell you when a field is required. Ray S got this on a form that was aparantly asking him if Surname was required ...

Stephen Hendricks ran the Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer and was surpised to see what it complained about ...

Ed came across this rather pecular situation in Microsoft Money. I've always found it humorous to see errors about errors ...

And finally, here's one our Dutch colleagues may appreciate from Joost Molenaar. For English speakers, the warning given is "The driver is not digital;" aparantly only analog drivers work in the Dutch Version of Windows ...

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