Nonsense page 5
Computers. The technological wonder of flawless precision and logic, honed by computer scientists over the decades. And just as capable of spouting complete nonsense as the best of us.
How many different errors are there, exactly? Surely not this many:
The following apparently empty file did actually print correctly:
If I am to believe the following, I have just had thirteen successive network disconnections on awaking my PC from hibernation in the morning. I certainly don’t have thirteen network adapters in my computer.
This was after 26 days uptime in Windows XP with daily hibernation. Windows must have been feeling the strain. Besides, hibernating a PC does not physically remove the network cable. Windows needs to lay off the weed.
I love how Word 2002 considers the word misspelt
to be misspelt. It does not even matter whether I select UK English or US English
spelling.
Miss Pelt indeed. Can I meet her?
I received the following error from trying to access the properties of a networked printer:
Except that I believed that the days of resources shortage died out with Windows 98. And this is not Windows 98. Curses. Don’t ask about the differing model number. Suffice it to say that Windows sharing sucks.
I love the following suggestion:
Reboot the entire computer? Is that all the help you can offer me?
If you disable sound in EPOC, the Time program shows the following useless error when trying to test an alarm sound:
Thanks to Mirrormere’s Unofficial Revo FAQ for pointing this one out!
The next screenshot comes from File Manager in Windows 3.11 trying to read a Macintosh disc:
Of course the disc is formatted, you wally. You just can’t read it! Even better is what Word 6 had to say:
My whole drive is now invalid? Let it be a warning! Macintosh discs break your disc drive!
The following picture shows Explore being a little confused over its file type definitions:
It gets worse from there on, I tell you.
What year is LLEC? Apparently the following music track has time-travelled from the year LLEC:
L is 50, so LLEC is the year 100 EC? 100 years after the birth of the United States of Europe? Wicked.
Finally, I can see why I don’t have the font that Acrobat Reader is looking for:
But do tell how you planned to create the font.