LOL Funny REAL error messages

Youse people ever encounter an error message in REAL LIFE that just says W. T. F.

The US internet has been under a cybertech assault since 4 July. Probables point to someone/group in China. Took out the Whitehouse.gov and several more sites. Parts of the Stock Exchange.

So I'm guessing cars and searching for desktops to impress Mankz and encountered this jewel:



Who actually writes these error messages? If you are going to crash and burn please leave a message that encourages the user to return. This one is neat. I have this software called Snag It that I purchased which allows capturing screens, regions, or a bumper for cars. Handy when you need to "Show me the error screen"

john

 

On my first computer (IBM Aptiva born with virus) I once got this beaty:


In case you cannot make it out, it says "Exception Encountered ??? Unknown Exception".

 

I've done some custom error messages for web pages, and there are some BRILLIANT ones out there (especially 404's). It's a branding exercise that does TONS for the credibility and consistency of the site. It is also (sadly) an oft-overlooked aspect of web development/design

 

or if you don't have snag it you could just alt+printscreen to copy the window to the clip board and then paste it into a photo-editor to save it

 

On quite a few apps I write I'll have an error handling function, so when that goes wrong I tend to give it a somewhat tongue-in-cheek "This error message has an error..wait, what?" message. And +1 on custom 404 pages, always a HUGE amount of overlooked potential there.

 

I am a great believer in gentle error handling and hard trapping.
That's to say in most of my apps (work), i pop out informative and gentle error messages. Behind the scenes i log errors to either a DB (if connected to one, not all apps are connected all the time), or to a log file.
I've even gone as far as using a unified DB for a few apps, escalating errors based on the frequency they occur at, and logging support calls for me automatically. Design like this is INSANELY valuable, as (as a developer in a corporate environment), i get bogged down with support rather than development quite quickly. Most support calls are in my experience caused by bugs. Squish the frequent bugs, and make your own life easier. Users don't understand this, but then - what do they understand

oh, and i have gone further than 404's on web apps. 403's are also fairly frequently seen in some apps, and it's fun to brand them as well...
What i like doing is building a friendly 404 that says something like "Oops. We screwed the pooch there somehow, what were you trying to do?" and then giving a bunch of links to common pages/search pages.

then i like making a harsher 403 (forbidden) page. Saying something like "OI! You not supposed to be here! - go here! or here! or here! or away!"

 

FireFTP always gives the the error message "OOPs, a child died"

 

^ lollll

Cyanide and happiness had the best I saw

"Sorry , we're fcking with the server"

And then there is literally one of the characters fcking a server

 

one from torrentz

 

fark: sorry, we spilled beer on the servers again.

 

Yes, I remember that one.

 

I just had this one pop up



Oh shiii...

 

Just got this one from Twitter. Pretty funny.



john

 

Another twitter one. Error trying to retrieve error message. Meme?

 

My old website used to give the message "You are lost. It is dark here. You are likely to be eaten by a Grue."

 

I always liked the Rock, Paper, Shotgun 404 error message of "Looks like something went wrong. We're going to blame you..."

 

I sometimes get the classic "Keyboard error - press f1 to continue" on POST, and once i shut down my last XP install it said it closed down explorer.exe because it was a security threat

Other than that, some Firefox/Thunderbird error messages are hilarious. At least in the Hungarian localization.

 

http://www.fsckin.com/2007/09/24/189-humorous-unix-errors/