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I'm a Systems Reliability and DevOps engineer for Netdata Inc. When not working, I enjoy studying linguistics and history, playing video games, and cooking all kinds of international cuisine.
I've seen a number of other environments that behave like this too. It seems to be becoming more and more common that things will try and give you hints when it's an obvious typo.
I'm a Systems Reliability and DevOps engineer for Netdata Inc. When not working, I enjoy studying linguistics and history, playing video games, and cooking all kinds of international cuisine.
Makes a bit more sense when you factor in that many PC BIOS implementations that would spit this out also interpreted things like stuck keys during POST as keyboard errors.
Hello! My name is Thomas and I'm a nerd. I like tech and gadgets and speculative fiction, and playing around with programming. It's not my day job, but I'm working on making it a side gig :)
I used to write the CMS for a broadcast station that rhymes with Box, here in the US. On their FAQ page, I accidentally pushed some dummy data including the following statement...
"If none of this answers your frequently asked question, just email Seth. He'll probably know the answer."
Some high level VP saw that on the live site and sent out a company wide email asking "who the f*** is Seth?"
Lesson of the day: Don't test dummy data in production.
I'm a Systems Reliability and DevOps engineer for Netdata Inc. When not working, I enjoy studying linguistics and history, playing video games, and cooking all kinds of international cuisine.
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PgAdmin is so incredibly polite when I get my columns wrong
That's funny 😄
British developer for sure. My errors are excessively polite. Please thank you, may I? You may.
I've seen a number of other environments that behave like this too. It seems to be becoming more and more common that things will try and give you hints when it's an obvious typo.
There's the old classic:
Keyboard error, press F1 to continue.
Makes a bit more sense when you factor in that many PC BIOS implementations that would spit this out also interpreted things like stuck keys during POST as keyboard errors.
Error: Operation completed successfully.
This may have been a Microsoft product.
I used to write the CMS for a broadcast station that rhymes with Box, here in the US. On their FAQ page, I accidentally pushed some dummy data including the following statement...
"If none of this answers your frequently asked question, just email Seth. He'll probably know the answer."
Some high level VP saw that on the live site and sent out a company wide email asking "who the f*** is Seth?"
Lesson of the day: Don't test dummy data in production.
Please contact your administrator, I am the Administrator!!
So what did you tell yourself?
"Hi, need some coffee? "
No list of silly error messages would be complete without the two classics:
PC LOAD LETTER
and
lp0 on fire
An Ingres database error from about 25 years ago, which popped up an "Error" box containing the text:
Somewhere in the Mesos / Marathon universe. :D
Not a typewriter