Amusing Error Messages
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Favourite Error Messages - FME
FME's error messages sometimes reveal the humourous side of our developers; looks like this one had been visiting Tim Hortons (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Hortons) earlier in the day...
Baking donuts from xxx polygon(s)
...and of course there is a close correlation between computer programmers and all things sci-fi...
READER_PIPELINE R_3::E00: Universe Destroyer(TestFactory)
SupplyAttributes failed due to Gamma Ray interference.
One thing we've learned is to expect the unexpected...
An annotation in the feature class 'XXX.XXXXXXXX_ANNO' could not be translated due to a very unlikely error.
FME encountered an error. Please contact support (http://www.safe.com/support/contact/form.php)
Of course, sometimes the developer's programming skills are better than their spelling...
Field count returned from FME is rediculously large
And whilst brevity is the soul of wit (http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/4594.html), sometimes you can take things too far...
ERROR
Favourite Error Messages - Other Software
At least we don't have restrictions as drastic as Microsoft does...
Error Message: Your Password Must Be at Least 18770 Characters and Cannot Repeat Any of Your Previous 30689 Passwords (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/276304)
...or as enticing as Google:
Not an error as such, but Dmitri got this little gem while doing some research on 3D surfaces
