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A
Space Odyssey (2001)
The Ultimate 404
Error Message
In the New Millennium
Bad Commands
More On "No Response Allowed"
Printer On Fire #2
Another Unknown
Error #2
A Comment on the Original
Worry Message
I'm Psychic,
Right?
Computer Bumper Stickers
No-one Is Immune
Rampant Ambiguity
Windows Ate Itself
Sounds Plausible
Error But Not Error Message
Too Many Mouse Buttons
It's Virtual Memory
What
Parameter?
At A Loss For Words
No Place To Go
More On Dummy Keyboards
Time Machine In Shop
Explains Itself
Doesn't Play Well With Others
Undetectable Error
What More Can You Ask
For
More
on the "No Response Allowed" Error
And Some
Error Messages Are Absolutely Correct
Not
Exactly An Error ... But Still Annoying
Worse
than Fatal?
BugBear
Why
Reboot?
On
Breaking Up Microsoft
The
Whole Story?
Spontaneous
Combustion
Now
What?
Unknown
Device
Bad
URL?
Cancel?
... How?
Another from the Wizards of Windows
Physician,
Heal Thy Self ...
Untouchable
Abnormal
Program Termination
Luck
of the Draw
Another
Successful Failure
Quaking
Upgrades
Bad
Advice
No
Information Is Better Than Wrong Information
Still
A Stupid Message
Hidden
Settings
Wouldn't
A Fresh One Be Better?
WhoDunIt?
The
Ultimate 404 Error Message
A
Very Long Password
The Lost
Error Messages
A collection of
fifteen Error Message submissions which -- by virtue (or fault) of an error --
have not been previously included in this compilation.
Returned Mail: Insufficient Permission
Resistance
is Futile
Absolutely
Correct
Error
on Error
An
Imprecise Error
Dear
Error
Never
Say Never
Inhouse
Error
No
Installation Required
High
Risk Behavior
Too
Exact
Mute
Identity
Crisis
Internal
Error
Has
Microsoft Gone Too Far?
1999 Entries (As the
Millennium Approaches)
Load
Letter?
What
Day Is It?
Tell
It To The DOJ
No
Recourse
Glass
Ceiling?
Identity
Crisis? (#2)
Too
Lazy To Take The Trash Out
Passing
the Blame
What
Server?
Impossible!
An
Illiterate Computer
The
Cause of this Effect
SNAFU
URL
from HELL
No
Explanation Required
Missing
Missing
Partition
No
Help
Got
to love those options
Unspecified
Error
Ignorance
Is Bliss?
Sometimes
the engineer is hoist on his own petard
Some
Wizard!
A
Somewhat Improved Glossary of Your PCs Messages
Invasion
of the Telitubbies
Unintelligible
Error
It
Happens
Success
So
Very Polite
Why
Drive A:?
Shoot Andy
Merged Instruments
Finally
Inform the User
And
The Entries Just Keep Coming:
Okay
... But Why?
The
Perpetual-Motion Machine
Divine
Error
Legion_Err
Disease
Insert
New User
A
Commentary
Who's
Reading My Files
Not
Really Worth A Thousand Words
CATCH
77
Missing
Web Page
Dear
Brutus
The
Sound of Silence
A
Triple Header
Would
A GPS Help?
Access
Denied
Schizophrenia?
Twizzled!
The
Truth About Error Messages
Not
Enough...
Too
Much...
Not
A Typewriter
Error
Is OK
Not
Omnicognizant
Guru
Meditation Error
Maddening
Error Messages
Was
this a joke?
A
Quartet of Error Messages
Overly
Protective?
Password
Abuse
Prepare
for Armageddon
A
Certain Lack of Certainty
Another
Error That Didn't Happen
The
Missing Link
Confusion
Abounds
Lost
In Hyperspace
Unhelpful Error
Not Enough (#2)
Uncertain Question
State of Mind
Successful Error
Can't Win For Losing
Old but Classic
No Criticism Allowed
Classic Unix
Free Space
IE versus Netscape
Another Mac Error
Is Not is not Not Is
Another Successful Error
All right all ready!
Was it Laurel? Or Hardy?
Something's Missing
Not to Worry, Mate
The Original
Contest Entries
You
Are Not Permitted To Leave
An
Unintentional Error Message (3rd Prize)
Nothing
Goes Wrong Like Success
The
Ghost of Windows Past
No
News Is Good News?
Old
Faithful
The
Doctor Is Out (Of Order)
The
Fault Lies In Ourselves, Not Our Stars
Wanted:
Artificial Stupidity (#1)
Not
A Better Mouse Trap
Try,
Try Again
Everybody's
Favorite (#1)
Ants
Are Bugs Too
The
Computer General Will Disavow ....
Space
To Erase?
Another
'Unexpected' Error
Trust
Me! (Honorable Mention)
More
'Unknown' Problems
Windows
Doesn't Like Windows Plus?
Too
Many Excuses (2nd Prize)
An
Inexcusable Error
Half-a-loaf
Is Not Better
Useful?
Not Really!
Brazen
Honesty
Programmer's
Dilemma
That
Dear Old Blue Screen Of Death
Just
Who's The Stupid One Here (1st Prize)
Whose
Problem Is It, Anyway?
An
Error In Error
Support
Is Not Supported
Illegal
Operation
If
You Don't Know, We Aren't A Gonna ...
Succinctly
Put ...
Contortionist's
Quandary?
We
All Know Who's Responsible
Tie
Me Kangaroo (Mouse) Down, Sport (Honorable Mention)
Design
For The Unknown
Non-error
Message
What's
In A Page?
Can't
Read If Can't Write
Sheer
Confusion
Not
Much Help
A
Time and A Place For Everything
Whereabouts
Unknown
Gee,
Nothing Failed! What Went Wrong?
And
Some Are Odder Than Others
Absolute
Crash!
What
Do You Do If It Doesn't Fail?
We
Also Get Critics
Everybody's
Favorite (#2)
Permission
Denied
CIA?
... or KGB? (Honorable Mention)
The
dog did nothing in the night time?
Somewhere
In Limbo (#1)
Less
Than Helpful
System
Error (But Wrong Report)
Arrested
Operations
Windows
Protection Error
Father
Knows Best
Somewhere
In Limbo (#2)
No
Response Allowed
Another
Unknown Error
Makes
Sense To Me
The
Error Is The Entry
Unknown
In Any Language
Inexcusable
Ignorance
A
Very Poor Excuse
Just
Who's The Stupid One Here (#2)
Wanted:
Artificial Stupidity (#2)
You
know my methods, Watson
Incorrect
Information Is Worse Than ...
Special
Features:
Ben
Sergeant Cartoon
Haiku
Error Messages
Fictitious
Error Messages
News
Stories:
PC
Format September 1998
Stupid
Error Message Tricks by Steve Ulfelder ComputerWorld
Volume 32 #39 (9/29/98) page 80
The
Errors of Their Ways by John Burgess Washington Post Monday, September
28, 1998
PC
Answers December 1998 (appears in November)
Developing
Windows Error Messages : Book
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