Thursday, December 20, 2007

Very cool bug in FireFtp!


FireFtp is a popular extension for Mozilla Firefox that provides "easy and intuitive access to FTP servers".
As you can see in the picture I found a bug in FireFtp, I could download 180% (and more) of a remote file from an FTP server... Don't ask me how...
However the good thing is that also the "remaining time" is synchronized, saying that I finished downloading 100% of the file 36 seconds ago ;)

Wednesday, December 19, 2007

Cool scrollbar

My colleague, Attila got a nice fixed size error popup from SQL Server Management Studio.


I also like scrollbars with 5 pixels height.

Monday, December 17, 2007

Skype has been updated (but not all bugs has been fixed)

I've updated right now my pc with latest version of Skype...
I use it everyday, at home and at work, in my opinion it is a great software, one of the first good and free VOIP software, it has many plugins and features, works on Linux, Mac and Windows...
I'm a bit sorry to write this post, but after installing last version and restarted Skype:


Some messages are in Italian and some in Hungarian!! I've installed Skype in Italian language on a English installation of Windows XP, how come the Hungarian localization ? Of course the setup knows that I'm connected from Hungary but please don't mix localization messages!!

Tuesday, December 11, 2007

Server Error in "/" Application

My colleague János Murvai-Gaál found well implemented Microsoft solution, it was the famous web page: http://home.microsoft.com:

Monday, December 10, 2007

Program: C:\pro...

Yes, again the Visual studio. I think no comments are required:

Please correct the following error...?

I wanted to open an aspx file with Visual Studio when I got this message:



It seems easy to determine what the problem is. (Hungarian help (súgó) button is a bonus.)

Click Help for more information

I started to debug a web application using Visual Studio when this message appeared:



"Click Help for more information" command is very useful, but a bit hard to complete thence it does not exist.

Monday, December 3, 2007

Microsoft released very small updates

I was installing a brand new Windows XP in a Virtual PC virtual machine... of course I wanted to be updated to the latest software updates available from WindowsUpdate website...

This is the screen of the virtual machine:


I wasn't surprised on 70 updates released after SP2, but on the really small size of the Total Download Size: 1.5 MB... really strange :)

Wednesday, October 31, 2007

Double help in MSN WebMessenger


This time I found a simple error in Msn WebMessenger: a double question mark for opening the same online help...

Tuesday, October 30, 2007

No name buttons

Mihály Nyeste, one of our software testers, sent me a nice screen about Mercury TestDirector, which is a test management tool.

It seems a game of hazard to find the proper button at the bottom of the screen.

Unlimited space from your italian email account!

Many and many email providers are giving lots of Gb of space for storing email, websites, photo albums... it seems unlimited space... you will "never" reach 100% for your 4.5 GB in Gmail...

But there is a solution! You can exceed the standard 100% and get more and more! Like with the italian provider email.it (their slogain is "the professional email")...


For who can't speak italian, it is written 159% used...

Thursday, October 18, 2007

Very hidden excel sheet

One of our Excel files is opening so slowly, so I decided to check if it is using some kind of macros. When I opened the macro editor I found this three-state option to set the visibility of a sheet.

  • -1: xlSheetVisible
  • 0: xlSheetHidden
  • 2: xlSheetVeryHidden
I was also curious why value one is missing from the sequence... I thought it has a "magic" meaning, so I checked an other property:


  • 0: xlNoRestrictions
  • 1: xlUnlockedCells
  • -4142: xlNoSelection
It seems a logical sequence.

Remarks: "The property xlSheetHidden hides the sheet, but it can be made visible by any user through the Excel user interface. If you use xlSheetVeryHidden, however, the user cannot make the sheet visible through the Excel user interface. " (msdn2)

Wednesday, October 17, 2007

Invalid handle

Our sysadmin moved the source safe database to a new server, I wanted to open an existing project, and change the location of the source control inside the visual studio, but it gave me a very useful error message:

I become curios about this well defined error message, and tired the "Help" option, but it provided the "expected result":

Of course the "Information Not Found".

I guess the developers made a survey about the clicking ratio and about 90% percent of the users clicked immediately to the "Ok" option instead of the "Help", so to create the help was not required.

Thursday, October 11, 2007

Exception ? Who did it? Not me...

Software exceptions often occurs, because of memory leaks, file system status, unexpected events and so on... But today SQL Navigator showed me a very strange message:


I really don't know which was the problem but if "SQLNav5.exe" is showing a message it should be a litte more precise at least about who raised the exception... maybe itself ?

Wednesday, October 10, 2007

Good programme for afternoon

Microsoft has released service pack 1 for Microsoft Visual Studio 2005.

Installing a software update sometimes really takes several minutes, but warning about several hours looked like a joke.

But it was not.

Friday, October 5, 2007

About Groupwise address book


Seems strange but it seems that the "graphics team" of Groupwise is not so synchronized about translations with the others teams... The title of the windows is correct but the graphical message not really...

Tuesday, October 2, 2007

Prease click avanti

Sometimes seems to me that some developers don't really care about translations... Or maybe people when installing a software is used to click on "next" without reading...

In the next screen (in Italian) there is a mistyping error "farvore" instead of "favore" (please) and an inconsistency between a description label and the next button texts.


So, read what's on your monitor before clicking next!

Tuesday, September 25, 2007

VSS: null file is already open

Microsoft Visual SourceSafe is (maybe) one of most used applications for versioning of development files, at least using Microsoft technology in Windows environments ;)

The product should be quite mature, no big service packs or bugfixes were released so far, however "getting latest version" I got this message:


Maybe the developers left some files "Checked In" or before compiling didn't "Get Latest Version" ... ;)

Thursday, September 20, 2007

Javascript error from Winamp

Winamp is a commonly used MP3 player.

I usually like when an application does what the user is expected from it, that is why this javascript popup was strange for me, from a music player. Unfortunately the screenshot is in Hungarian, but it has the same error popup window as the Internet Explorer.

Translation:

A Runtime Error has occurred.
Do you wish to Debug?

Line: 460
Error: Invalid property value.

Yes No

Tuesday, September 18, 2007

Help ! I need somebody...

Here I am with my first (personal) post in this wonderful blog. I'm not a guru in Microsoft Excel so this morning it happened that i needed help... unfortunately I got only a blank window, without errors, messages, links... What can I do now ?

Unexpected build error

Reporting extension of the Visual Studio brings some cool feature to it, but it also has some strange messages, like this one: "Unexpected build error: Operation is not valid due to the current state of the object...Make sure that the product is installed properly."

Unexpected build error: Operation is not valid due to the current state of the object...Make sure that the product is installed properly.Why don't you reinstall your whole operation system, after a build error?

Wednesday, September 12, 2007

Firefox download window

Mozilla Firefox is one of the most popular web browsers. I also use it regularly, but its download window sometimes (it did it only twice for me) forget to enable the "Ok" button. With this feature the whole download window become useless.

Friday, September 7, 2007

Has Google changed the World?

It seems yes.

I checked the usage of UI - LOL using Google Analytics when I realized Google has changed the World:

Google has changed the WorldEastern Europe overcame Russia:

Eastern Europe overcame RussiaI have to update my geographical knowledge.

Choose "Yes" or "No"

Gusty installed the HTTPAnalyzer to check some log files, when he found this screen:

It is quite hard to choose "Yes" or "No" because only a checkbox is there. But there is an other interesting solution: Apostrophes are escaped in the text. It is not so garish for ''Yes'' and ''No'', but won''t looks strange.

Wednesday, September 5, 2007

GroupWise has prevented images on this page from displaying

Modern mail clients usually prevent images from displaying to deny the validation of email address. GroupWise also has a feature like this (or at least it has a warning message):

GroupWise has prevented images on this page from displaying.

Windows Installer: Downloading MB of MB

Gusty updated his computer, when this screen appeared. It seems the progress bar and text labels are not synchronized:

Windows update - Downloading MB of MB

Monday, September 3, 2007

Friendly message from Picasa web

Gusty got a friendly message form Google's Picasa album while editing the captions of images:

Picasa message box.
"Something has happened."

Property value is not valid

In Visual Studio 2005 I tired to change a numeric value to zero in the property grid, than I got a message:

Visual Studio: Property value is not valid.I was a bit strange, why the value is invalid, so I checked the details:

Visual Studio: Property value is not valid details.So, I am not able to modify the file, while building or debugging, that is ok, but why the value is invalid because of this?

14 rows

Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio Express has cool "half" translations if you use non English local settings such as Italian:

Multilingual message box from Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio ExpressThanks Gusty for this screen.

Friday, August 31, 2007

Emacs abort dialog

Emacs is a popular text editor, but it can crash:

Emacs crash dialog
Personally, I don't think that an average user, who use it to edit text or scripts, will start the gdb (GNU Debugger) and examine the disassembled code to check why is it crashed. (Unfortunately I also could not do it because gdb was not installed to my computer).

Thursday, August 30, 2007

Groupwise appointment

Try to create an appointment:

Groupwise appointmentIf you try to specify the start date, a nice feature can be seen:

Groupwise appointment
Under the calendar control text labels will be slurped.

Wednesday, August 29, 2007

Friendly dropdown list

QNX is a realtime operating system for embedded systems. A SQL query is also embedded into their registration form:
QNX registration form with SQL query

System restart

Visual Studio 6.0 restarts your computer no matter what you want.

System restart by Visual Studio 6.0
Thanks Gusty for this screen.

Monday, August 27, 2007

Installing Nero 7 Preminum

Just three languages on one screen. Mixing English and Hungarian is usual, but German was a surprise.

Nero 7 - Multilingual install: English, German and Hungarian
Thanks to Peter Beke for the screenshot.

Friday, August 17, 2007

Raiffeisen Online

About one month ago the Hungarian Raiffeisen Online for had only one "Submit" button to finish an operation, but they tired to improve the user interface by adding some more buttons. My friend, Drifter sent me some screenshoots about the result of this development:

Raiffeisen Online
And an other one:

Raiffeisen Online
Which button would you like to choose?

Friday, August 10, 2007

Visual Studio Messages

If reporting services extension is installed to your Visual Studio, sometimes you will get the following NullReferenceException message:



Access failure:
Programmers should know what this message is:
Visual Basic compiler is unable to recover:



And finally, a catastrophic failure:

Unable to step. Operation not supported.

Debugging is one of the key feature of the Visual Studio. "Step over" or "step into" a function is the usual way to check what is happening inside a program. But sometimes this feature is not supported.

Wednesday, August 8, 2007

Cancel in SQL Management Studio

Unfortunately, this message appeared in Hungarian language, however the English version of SQL Management studio was installed to my computer. It has the following meaning: "The user chosen the cancel option inside the saving dialog."


This is the most unimportant message what I ever seen.

Skype vs clipboard

Nowadays, using the clipboard is an everyday routine, but exceptions are happened:Cannot open clipboard.

Editing large scripts with Sql Management studio

Sometimes it is required to manage large SQL scripts, especially if you want to migrate data by hand. Let's see how it is look like with Microsoft Sql Management Studio:

I had the SQL script and opened using the file open function. I wanted to reorganize the file using the copy/past feature, when this dialog appeared:

You are attempting to copy more than 194049 lines to the Clipboard. This may decrease performance. "You are attempting to copy more than 194049 lines to the Clipboard. This may decrease performance." 194049 lines didn't seem to a large amount of data (in the end of 2006).

Anyway I was able to copy/paste, but it was terribly slow. After the modifying the file I also wanted to run it:

Insufficent memory to continue the execution of the program.The memory was not enough, my PC had 1 GB. Check the details of the exception, it was a usual .Net stack trace:
System.OutOfMemoryExceptionFinally, I manged to execute the script in multiple smaller parts, but after I wanted to save it:

The operation could not be completed. Not enough memory."The operation could not be completed. Not enough memory." - at least the second part of the error message was translated to Hungarian.