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.
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!!
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
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.)
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.
"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 :)
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.
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...
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.
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)
- -1: xlSheetVisible
- 0: xlSheetHidden
- 2: xlSheetVeryHidden
- 0: xlNoRestrictions
- 1: xlUnlockedCells
- -4142: xlNoSelection
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.
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 ?
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.
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
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!
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" ... ;)
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
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."
Why don't you reinstall your whole operation system, after a build error?
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:
Eastern Europe overcame Russia:
I have to update my geographical knowledge.
I checked the usage of UI - LOL using Google Analytics when I realized Google has changed the World:
Eastern Europe overcame Russia:
I 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.
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
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:
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:
"Something has happened."
"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:
I was a bit strange, why the value is invalid, so I checked the 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?
I was a bit strange, why the value is invalid, so I checked the 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:
Thanks Gusty for this screen.
Thanks Gusty for this screen.
Friday, August 31, 2007
Emacs abort dialog
Emacs is a popular text editor, but it can crash:
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).
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
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:
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.
Thanks to Peter Beke for the screenshot.
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:
And an other one:
Which button would you like to choose?
And an other one:
Which button would you like to choose?
Friday, August 10, 2007
Visual Studio Messages
Unable to step. Operation not supported.
Wednesday, August 8, 2007
Cancel in SQL Management Studio
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." 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:
The memory was not enough, my PC had 1 GB. Check the details of the exception, it was a usual .Net stack trace:
Finally, 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." - at least the second part of the error message was translated to Hungarian.
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." 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:
The memory was not enough, my PC had 1 GB. Check the details of the exception, it was a usual .Net stack trace:
Finally, 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." - at least the second part of the error message was translated to Hungarian.
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