Comments on: The error message Olympics http://dansdata.blogsome.com/2007/08/30/the-error-message-olympics/ the blog that is not dansdata.com Sun, 06 Dec 2009 21:08:59 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5.1-alpha by: Anthony Hersey http://dansdata.blogsome.com/2007/08/30/the-error-message-olympics/#comment-1338 Thu, 30 Aug 2007 22:38:59 +0100 http://dansdata.blogsome.com/2007/08/30/the-error-message-olympics/#comment-1338 May God help me, I know what that error message is saying. May God help me, I know what that error message is saying.

]]> by: omgror http://dansdata.blogsome.com/2007/08/30/the-error-message-olympics/#comment-1337 Thu, 30 Aug 2007 18:57:39 +0100 http://dansdata.blogsome.com/2007/08/30/the-error-message-olympics/#comment-1337 I remember back in my CS days, some guy was demoing his project to be marked and must have missed off a quotation mark somewhere, because when he went through testing the validation of some input, he got an error, followed by about 300 lines of source code. This was particularly amusing as he was also dumping all text output to a printer. A nice, noisy Epson dot-matrix. I remember back in my CS days, some guy was demoing his project to be marked and must have missed off a quotation mark somewhere, because when he went through testing the validation of some input, he got an error, followed by about 300 lines of source code. This was particularly amusing as he was also dumping all text output to a printer. A nice, noisy Epson dot-matrix.

]]> by: jwaddell http://dansdata.blogsome.com/2007/08/30/the-error-message-olympics/#comment-1335 Thu, 30 Aug 2007 09:27:04 +0100 http://dansdata.blogsome.com/2007/08/30/the-error-message-olympics/#comment-1335 My favourite PennyPacker bug is when I open up multiple comics in multiple Firefox tabs, but each comic has the previous tab's tags and comments. Although given the amount of tag-spam on some of the comics, it took a while to notice... My favourite PennyPacker bug is when I open up multiple comics in multiple Firefox tabs, but each comic has the previous tab's tags and comments. Although given the amount of tag-spam on some of the comics, it took a while to notice...

]]> by: pittance http://dansdata.blogsome.com/2007/08/30/the-error-message-olympics/#comment-1334 Thu, 30 Aug 2007 03:58:28 +0100 http://dansdata.blogsome.com/2007/08/30/the-error-message-olympics/#comment-1334 I've never measured it exactly but a particularly flaky app-that-shall-remain-nameless (at v1.2 I should point out, no v0.1 "use it on your own risk" beta...) that we use at work once gave me an error that covered about 800 pixels width and 6 screens of height on a 1600x1200 monitor. I had to right-click on the menu bar and use 'move' just to see the 'OK' button. I think I've still got the stitched-together screenshot that I did for the disbelieving developers. Its other speciality was the 250 sequential .Net errors that it would do in another fairly common circumstance - I should point out that it would continue to work after these errors had been cleared. I've never measured it exactly but a particularly flaky app-that-shall-remain-nameless (at v1.2 I should point out, no v0.1 "use it on your own risk" beta...) that we use at work once gave me an error that covered about 800 pixels width and 6 screens of height on a 1600x1200 monitor. I had to right-click on the menu bar and use 'move' just to see the 'OK' button.

I think I've still got the stitched-together screenshot that I did for the disbelieving developers.

Its other speciality was the 250 sequential .Net errors that it would do in another fairly common circumstance - I should point out that it would continue to work after these errors had been cleared.

]]> by: dvayn http://dansdata.blogsome.com/2007/08/30/the-error-message-olympics/#comment-1333 Thu, 30 Aug 2007 03:34:44 +0100 http://dansdata.blogsome.com/2007/08/30/the-error-message-olympics/#comment-1333 Looks like the PennyPacker servlet is flaky in general. A few page refreshes and I get a different error. The message you see is quite small, however, when you compare it to a stack trace from something more "enterprise" like IBM's Websphere Application Server. That can give 100 lines or more! Looks like the PennyPacker servlet is flaky in general. A few page refreshes and I get a different error.

The message you see is quite small, however, when you compare it to a stack trace from something more "enterprise" like IBM's Websphere Application Server. That can give 100 lines or more!

]]> by: RichVR http://dansdata.blogsome.com/2007/08/30/the-error-message-olympics/#comment-1332 Thu, 30 Aug 2007 03:32:06 +0100 http://dansdata.blogsome.com/2007/08/30/the-error-message-olympics/#comment-1332 It reads very much like a long winded Holkins post. Only more entertaining. It reads very much like a long winded Holkins post. Only more entertaining.

]]> by: Daniel Rutter http://dansdata.blogsome.com/2007/08/30/the-error-message-olympics/#comment-1331 Thu, 30 Aug 2007 03:22:57 +0100 http://dansdata.blogsome.com/2007/08/30/the-error-message-olympics/#comment-1331 <i>This sort of error will likely become increasingly common</i> A new Windows config option suggests itself. <img src="http://www.dansdata.com/images/blog/dump.png" width="384" height="480"/> This sort of error will likely become increasingly common

A new Windows config option suggests itself.

]]> by: rsynnott http://dansdata.blogsome.com/2007/08/30/the-error-message-olympics/#comment-1330 Thu, 30 Aug 2007 02:50:28 +0100 http://dansdata.blogsome.com/2007/08/30/the-error-message-olympics/#comment-1330 This sort of error will likely become increasingly common as (a) people write more AJAX-y stuff and (b) people use server software which causes increasingly longwinded errors. Something I wrote a while ago would occasionally treat the user to a very, very long Common Lisp stack trace, though I think it was inserted into text box or something rather than a message box. This sort of error will likely become increasingly common as (a) people write more AJAX-y stuff and (b) people use server software which causes increasingly longwinded errors.

Something I wrote a while ago would occasionally treat the user to a very, very long Common Lisp stack trace, though I think it was inserted into text box or something rather than a message box.

]]> by: emrikol http://dansdata.blogsome.com/2007/08/30/the-error-message-olympics/#comment-1329 Thu, 30 Aug 2007 02:41:40 +0100 http://dansdata.blogsome.com/2007/08/30/the-error-message-olympics/#comment-1329 Ahh, the lovely Penny Packer error. I'm glad I'm not the only one that gets that lovely beast. I really like the whole "small community" of penny packer. It seems much friendlier than the PA forums. In my long standing internet life, I always seem to move from community to community as they grow too large to be personal. Unfortunately, I am now "homeless" and have no forum/board to call home. Although, I do like 4chan and the board that shall remain nameless because as far as I know...it's only me and one other person ;) I bet if I were a psych major or something I could write some really interesting stuff about the overcrowding/outcasting of internet communities. Alas, I am not so I shall just sit here and type randomness in your blog. Ahh, the lovely Penny Packer error. I'm glad I'm not the only one that gets that lovely beast.

I really like the whole "small community" of penny packer. It seems much friendlier than the PA forums. In my long standing internet life, I always seem to move from community to community as they grow too large to be personal. Unfortunately, I am now "homeless" and have no forum/board to call home. Although, I do like 4chan and the board that shall remain nameless because as far as I know...it's only me and one other person ;)

I bet if I were a psych major or something I could write some really interesting stuff about the overcrowding/outcasting of internet communities. Alas, I am not so I shall just sit here and type randomness in your blog.

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