Comments on: Half Assed Error Messages http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2007/08/13/half-assed-error-messages/ Utterly random, incoherent and disjointed rants and ramblings... Wed, 07 Jan 2009 23:39:29 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.5 by: Matt` http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2007/08/13/half-assed-error-messages/#comment-5749 Fri, 17 Aug 2007 17:33:39 +0000 http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2007/08/13/half-assed-error-messages/#comment-5749 I once had a firewall ask me if it should allow itself to connect to the internet. I guess it shows that its thorough but still.. if it doesn't even trust itself. Also had one saying "initialisation failed, (name of thing) is already running" which I guess is true, if it's already running it maybe can't be started again, but since this was a behind the scenes process (I hadn't deliberately run a program while it was already running) I thought it should maybe have been programmed to respond by making use of the one that's already there, or wait, or close the old one, or anything more intelligent than throwing a fit over it. I once had a firewall ask me if it should allow itself to connect to the internet. I guess it shows that its thorough but still.. if it doesn’t even trust itself.

Also had one saying “initialisation failed, (name of thing) is already running” which I guess is true, if it’s already running it maybe can’t be started again, but since this was a behind the scenes process (I hadn’t deliberately run a program while it was already running) I thought it should maybe have been programmed to respond by making use of the one that’s already there, or wait, or close the old one, or anything more intelligent than throwing a fit over it.

]]> by: Fr3d http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2007/08/13/half-assed-error-messages/#comment-5643 Tue, 14 Aug 2007 00:38:59 +0000 http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2007/08/13/half-assed-error-messages/#comment-5643 Nice find :D Nice find D

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