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Vista error message random acts of vandalism
With every launch of a new Microsoft operating system comes two things: - New error messages
- A new ubiquitous advertising campaign.
The error message on the stickers? Windows Vista's most baffling communication: "Error: The operation completed successfully."
[via Boing Boing]
I don't know if this is a labor of love or merely the brainchild of four very gifted games designers, but Level Up is a really weird mash-up of gaming elements that you have probably never seen in a Flash game before.
Let's start with the premise itself: Groundhog Day meets Memento. The game experience revolves around 'days': you explore the world and the clock slowly ticks towards the evening. You bounce around picking up gems and talking to the denizens of 'Level Upland'. Eventually you feel tired and head back to ...
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Grammar freak said 11:45AM on 3-26-2007
This is pretty retarded. I'm pretty sure that this error dates to at least Win98, and even then I'm not sure if it's an windows error or whether it's something from a different, poorly-coded application.
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RP said 12:25PM on 3-26-2007
A funnier message would be the super-annoying UAC (User Account Control) dialog. From the Apple Vista commercial: "You are coming to a sad realization -- Allow or Deny?". This video cracks me up -- because it's so sad/frustrating: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2bByYgk4dk
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nickww said 10:43PM on 4-23-2007
Security Center service failed to start due to the following error: The account specified for this service is different from the account specified for other services running in the same process.
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nickww said 9:38PM on 4-23-2007
The Security Center service failed to start due to the following error: The account specified for this service is different from the account specified for other services running in the same process.
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