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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.
Ah, back to the infamous Windows Explorer we go.
Granted, it is variable bitrate, but if you do the maths yourself (file size over music duration) you will see that it works out at approximately 160 kilobits/second. (Winamp reckons 162 but who am I to argue?)
Vying for Chief Beleagured status of the Suite of course has to be Access runtime, starting with this useful result from my favourite MDE:
Zero what? Useful lines of code? The count of times it’s done what I asked? Clearly not the tally of stupid errors:
I cannot remember whether the next error dialog came from Access or Access runtime. Looking at the dialog box is not going to help anyone answer that one.
Access must be getting cheesed off that I am so on its case right now, but seeing the following message appear randomly in an Access application is not going to do its cause any favours:
The following message appeared when I was trying to install Adobe Reader:
I could have said, Sorry, you need administrative rights
or Please provide credentials
but no, it said that. What is a FEAD
anyhow? It sounds gruesome.
Ah, Windows AIM, demonstrating its understanding for path placeholders when opening a mailto link. What is it doing anyhow?
And here is Macintosh AIM showing off how well it understands entitites in the HTML that America Online cherish so much.
For a while I tried the alternative AIMM client, but it wasn’t quite right. For example, asking to see anyone’s profiles would result typically in this:
The following picture is AthenaIRC doing a version check:
To my disbelief, the developer never managed to find the cause of that. Ever.
Next, a successful install of BZflag. Install…?
Finally, from Arne: System error: Error reading from drive E:
That most of you cannot read it doesn’t lessen the stupidity of a dialog with two identically-named buttons. And that neither button did anything anyway. (Both buttons mean Cancel
.)