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Messages of All Time They're rarely helpful. Actually, they usually add insult to injury. But what would computing be without 'em? Herewith, a tribute to a baker's dozen of the best (or postgres cryptic error message is that worst?). By Harry McCracken | Thursday, September 18, 2008 at 5:28 am
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"To err is human, but to really foul things up you need a computer." So goes an old quip attributed cryptic error oops to Paul Ehrlich. He was right. One of the defining things about computers is that they-or, more specifically, the people who program them-get so many things so very wrong. Hence the need for error messages,
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which have been around nearly as long as computers themselves.. In theory, error messages should be painful at worst and boring at best. They tend to be cryptic; they rarely offer an apology even when one is due; they like to provide useless information like hexadecimal numbers and to withhold facts that would be useful, like plain-English explanations of how to right want went wrong. In multiple ways, most neverwinter cryptic error of them represent technology at its most irritating. In fact, people have an emotional attachment to many of them-like Proust's Madeleine, an error message from a machine out of your past can transport you back in time. That's a big part of why people form clubs to celebrate them, have them tattooed on their person, chronicle them for Wikipedia, and name albums after them. An entire company, the wonderfully-named Errorwear, exists to emblazon the images of such classic errors as the Blue Screen of Death (in four variations!), Guru Meditation, Red Ring of Death, and Sad Mac on T-shirts. And then there's this article-my stab at rounding up the major error messages of the past thirty years or so. I ranked them on a variety of factors, including how many people they bedeviled over the years, their aesthetic appeal or lack thereof, and the likelihood that they were notifying you of a genuine computing disaster. Your rankings probably differ from mine, which is why this story ends with a poll on the last page. Ready? Let's work through the list, starting with number thirteen and working our way up to the greatest error message of 'em all. 13. Abort, Retry, Fail? (MS-DOS) In many way
the VM system: panic("Shannon and Bill say this can't happen."); To the best of my knowledge it never did, though. Around 1980, I
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worked at the European Space Centre in Darmstadt Germany. The Director always insisted
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on doing demos for visitors himself and always ended up down a path that should not be visited except cryptic message generator for maintenance. The senior developer then always quietly dug him out and set him up where he should have been. When the director left, the Senior developer added in a message at http://www.technologizer.com/2008/09/18/errormessage/ this point which said "That F***er Bill Bloggs is driving this system down a dead end again." Well, the Director had gone to Paris, to become the Director of the whole of ESRO. As such, he now entertained visitors at the highest level only. So when he brought one to Darmstadt, he insisted on the usual. The visitor was very impressed, because it http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?WeirdErrorMessages seemed to know the Director's name, despite the fact he was using someone else's login. "Word cannot edit the unknown." ca. 1999 I remember working on a DEC PDP-10 in the 70s, using its text editor, TECO. Creating a file was done using the "make" directive. The author of TECO dated him/herself by responding to: make love with: not war? The classic UNIX examples: %make love cannot make love. stop. %got a light? no match %^what is saccharine (not sure if I'm spelling that right?) bad substitute %man: why did you get a divorce? man:: too many arguments %sh $"how would you rate Bush's incompetence Unmatched " Excuse me if my UNIX is bad, I have a PC... See ValuesOfBetaMayGiveRiseToDom. OPE ILLEGAL FILE NAME Literally this means that an illegal file name was passed to the CDC6000 system. (OPE is the program that handles opening files.) In fact it means that a Fortran subroutine was called with one too many arguments and that the extra argument was a floating point number between .25 and .5. The exponent field of such numbers just happen to spell "OPE" in CDC display
Google Search My Threads and Posts My Posts My Threads Steam Game Discussions # - C D - G H - L M - P Q - S T - Z Publisher / Developer Console Game Discussions Go to Page... Thread Tools http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2525028 Display Modes 02-05-2012, 11:58 AM #1 Seraphim (SVK) Join Date: Dec 2010 Reputation: 0 Posts: 22 Cryptic error on startup I have downloaded ST Online, registered online and then I wanted to play. After starting the game via Steam, I get screen with log in dialog, after I click log in, I get only: CrypticError: Oops! your application has crashed. ... Is there something I am doing wrong? I have all the drivers up to date. Seraphim (SVK) View cryptic error Public Profile Search User Find More Posts by Seraphim (SVK) Find Threads by Seraphim (SVK) 02-05-2012, 12:31 PM #2 alien00785 Join Date: Dec 2009 Reputation: 0 Posts: 198 a friend on mine has this too. veryfying cache in steam doesnt solve it, also verifying files in the launcher doesn't work. pc restart also doesn't work. alien00785 View Public Profile Search User Find More Posts by alien00785 Find Threads by alien00785 02-05-2012, 02:10 PM #3 Vaemer-Riit Join Date: cryptic error message Feb 2009 Reputation: 167 Posts: 1,136 While this might be obvious check to make sure that you have enough disk space on the Hard Drive to DL and install the update. I was using a friend's PC and he hadn't updated in a while and the update would always crash when trying to do the last 200mb, turns out he ran out of disk space and freeing some up let the game update and run just fine. Vaemer-Riit View Public Profile Visit Vaemer-Riit's homepage! Search User Find More Posts by Vaemer-Riit Find Threads by Vaemer-Riit 02-06-2012, 11:10 AM #4 Seraphim (SVK) Join Date: Dec 2010 Reputation: 0 Posts: 22 I have still 570GB remaining on the drive. Sometimes it tells me that it is trying to update for a second just before the laucher starts. But in the end, there is no launcher version number. After I enter my log in name and password, I always get cryptic error. My setup if it is for anything (as I have it in my profile on Steam, no time to edit ) Asus Maximus IV Extreme-Z, Intel Core i7 2600k + Corsair H80 water cooler with 2x12cm fan Enermax Vegas blue, Gainward GTX570 GLH + Alpenfohn Peter cooler with 2x14cm fan Enermax Vegas blue, 4x2GB (8GB) DDR Corsair Dominator 1600MHz CL8, 2x90GB (Raid 0) Force3 SSD Corsair + 300GB WD Velociraptor + 1500GB WD Green, Case Enermax Luxuray + Enermax MODU87+ GOLD 700W, Zalman ZM-MFC3