Friday, November 7, 2008

Cannot open file

My favorite developer tool informed me about it was unable to open the following file:

I don't understand why it wanted to open the root directory, but I am sure it still exists.

Continue operation is not supported

We already have a post about step is unsupported operation, but now I was informed about the continue command is also unsupported.

I am curious what operations are supported by this debugger...

Clever code completition in javascript mode

Server tags should not be included inside the code complete popup:

The hierarchy is not in a valid state

After saving a file the following dialog appeared to me:


I just asked: WTF?

Windows Deffender is always protect you

Okay, not always just when it not crashes:

Monday, July 21, 2008

MapSource map set

I tired to upload some new maps to my Garmin gps using MapSource (this is the default gps manager for Garmin products). I selected the maps in the MapSource software carefully to fit on the storage card of the gps. After about an hour waiting while it was calculated the map set the following message appeared:

Ok, it seemd as a bug, so I tired to reduce the size of the map set, but it didn't help:


I decided to give an other chance:

At this point a gave up.

Wednesday, July 9, 2008

Absurd time estimations

I have enough of these stupid absurd time estimations in Vista!!


Maybe I should try to install Service Pack 1!

Tuesday, May 27, 2008

Skype needs more credit

I was in my Skype for Business Control Panel, I wanted to assign the last 2 € in my account to myself but...


I can't do it, assigning 2 € (of course) requires 2 €, I should purchase more credit !! (?)

Wednesday, May 21, 2008

Double radio

Double radio is not a new broadcasting channel, but it is a new feature. Firstly introduced by SQL Navigator installer of Quest Software:


Thanks Balint for this screen.

Monday, May 19, 2008

Destination is "Download error"

Majky, one of my friends made this photo at a Hungarian bus station:



The destination is "Letöltési hiba" which means "Download error".

Which Description

The developers of Apple Software Update hesitated a bit when they defined the description of the Safari update:

Thanks Balint for this screen.

Thursday, May 8, 2008

AVG released a new version

AVG released a new version of his popular free antivirus and I wanted to be updated with latest features...
Windows Vista is consuming a lot of resources so I had Task Manager open to check the amount of memory needed for the new antivirus...
As you can see from the screenshot, one of the application executables, avgfrw.exe (First Run Wizard) still have some TODOs in the code... do you think there are more ? ;)

Wednesday, April 23, 2008

Error or not?

Gábor, our colleague, was connecting to a remote machine via remote desktop, when this message appeared:




Logon Connect Failed
Error connection to existing session for. The operation completed successfully.



So success or not?

Monday, April 14, 2008

This is not an exit

Using Office you might have seen a message like this:

"Microsoft Outlook has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience."

The program ends unexpectedly.

In Office 2007 there is something completely different.





There are no simple operations. Even exit can fail.

Wednesday, April 2, 2008

Customer Experience Improvement Program by Visual Studio

Microsoft Visual Studio is waiting for a response from ' Customer Experience Improvement Program'. This may be because 'Customer Experience Improvement Program' is busy and unable to respond at this time.


I really hope this frustrating error message was not created by the experiences of customers.

Wednesday, March 26, 2008

Click the hyperlink in the Message column for details

One of our colleague, Gábor wanted to attach a database using the Microsoft SQL Management Studio, when he got this surprising message:
An error occurred when attaching the database(s). Click the hyperlink in the Message column for details.

It would be less complicated if the actual error message displayed in the popup.

Tuesday, March 25, 2008

Problem solving by vista

I was installing printer driver under vista, when a problem occurred. I was informed by this message:
What is the problem? Going to the Hewlett-Packard website really solves it?

Saturday, March 22, 2008

Copy and paste between office applications

The other day, I realized a strange copy and paste behavior between Microsoft Excel and Microsoft Word.

Firstly, I had an excel sheet with some date columns:
Later, I decreased the size of the columns. In this case Excel realizes that the date is too long so they were substituted with hash marks:
I wanted to copy these cells and paste into a word document, but it pasted only the hash marks instead of the date values.
So, don't forget to check small cells of an excel sheet before copy and past it into a word document.

Fortunately, Notepad is a more intelligent application, so it can handle this situation without any problem:

Friday, March 21, 2008

Apple updater is cropped after an update

After an update with Apple software updater, the main window was like in this screenshot, cropped from the bottom, I really don't know why...

Tuesday, March 18, 2008

Installers sometimes are more buggy than software

This time i want to post two screenshots:


Different setup engines, both famous, Nullsoft Installer and Installshield, however buggy... the first one doesn't let me close it, everything is disabled so I need to kill it with task manager :(
The second is in Italian, I will translate for you: "... This operation could take some" what ? onions or apples ? :)

Wednesday, February 6, 2008

Item Not Found

I tired to delete some files in the search window of Windows Vista when this message appeared:



<%3NULL:OpText> seems an interesting location.

Thursday, January 10, 2008

Just to have more compile warnings

I recompiled our project and I was surprised by the following warning message:
'42016' is not a valid warning number.


It seems a typical wtf message, but it can be eliminated by the this way.

Wednesday, January 9, 2008

Very fast CD writer

Attila Branyik our new feeder has a fast CD writer which can write discs with 762649x speed.



So ask him if you have something to archive.

Freemail error popup

Freemail.hu is a widely used mail system in Hungary. But sometimes it communicates with the user with very user friendly way:



Thanks to Attila Branyik for this screen.