Brutally honest computer error messages

01:16 PM PT, Oct 27 2008

As I look back on my experience with computers, it's a miracle I'm still able to use these things without curling into the fetal position. Windows 95, 98 and ME (yes, I can shamefully admit to having bought and installed Windows Millennium Edition -- hey, it was Y2K-compliant!) had a nagging habit of telling me I had committed "fatal errors." Yet, a decade later I'm still plugging away on these high-tech machines without a single fatality to report.

That's not to say that computer error messages have gotten any clearer since then. "Unknown errors" are still a common occurrence; Firefox still loves to crash at the most inopportune times; and Google has error pages for the error page.

Let's be honest, developers! If it's the user's fault, say so. If it's simply a result of bad programming, be up front and clear about it. So, with that philosophy in mind, here's some fictional error messages that users can actually understand. [ Computer Error Messages ]

-- Mark Milian

October 27, 2008 in Funny pics | Permalink

http://www.cracked.com/article_16053_30-error-messages-you-never-want-see.html

This is pretty funny too, but more more NSFW-ness.

Make you own here!

http://atom.smasher.org/error/

Posted by: AmbroseKalifornia | October 28, 2008 at 12:04 PM

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Christie St. Martin

Christie St. Martin was born in Bermuda and educated at two Canadian universities that would prefer not to be mentioned here until she supplies them with healthy building endowments. An uber-geek and proud of it, she established herself as an Internet presence with All Things Christie, a blog that managed, with its quirky and unabashedly self-indulgent links to and commentary on whatever struck her fancy or her ire, to attract small legions of readers, fans and would-be stalkers. Her interests were as they are: myriad and eclectic, though certainly given to a particular fondness for the tech-y, the game-y and the kitschy. She is her own organizing principle, a kind of mad surfer on the crests of cultural lunacy, alternately acerbic, ecstatic and unintentionally insightful. She has since blogged for VH1's "Best Week Ever" and Exhausticated.com, providing her usual melange of cheek, snark and occasional observation. Christie also contributes to LAT's Hero Complex blog.

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