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Thursday
Oct222009

What?

I’m collecting stupid error messages. This is one of my favourites:

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Every time I see it (which is often because our eBridge system has some links to insecure pages in amongst its https) my brain does a double flip as to what it might mean. Show someone that message and ask them which of the buttons is the dangerous one and I’ll bet they’ll look at you as if you were from Mars. Why can’t they just say:

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Reader Comments (2)

Ok, so in the interveneing years since this event happened, I've lost the screen cap but at my secondary school (David Lister - really) I once got an error message whilst using some unknown proprietary anti virus software. It faild and displayed a message that started with the sentence

"Something Bad Happened!".
October 27, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterSimon Johnson
The best one I had so far (from a Magix video editing software as far as I remember):
"Error: The error cannot be displayed"
October 27, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterChristo Lionet

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