http://www.osnews.com/story/19435/Progress Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2009, David Adams adam+nospam@osnews.com Mon, 06 Jul 2009 19:06:21 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif http://www.osnews.com http://osnews.com/thread?303671 http://osnews.com/thread?303671 This is one of the funniest comics yet! I wish I'd thought of it myself. Thu, 06 Mar 2008 20:53:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Pro-Competition) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?303672 http://osnews.com/thread?303672 hehe funny! reminds me of the "please wait while updating your updater" dialog (anyone url?). Thu, 06 Mar 2008 21:00:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (aldeck) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?303674 http://osnews.com/thread?303674 The picture can be extended as follows:

------------- Downloading -------------
Operation in progress:
(#####_______________) 25%

Don't mind the progress bar above, it may not have any predictive worth. The bar will be updated soon.

Re-evaluating progress bar:
(##########__________) 50%

Please wait while the program is searching for a new method to re-evaluare the calculation for the operation's progress bar... (insert dancing elephant here).

:-) Thu, 06 Mar 2008 22:05:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Doc Pain) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?303692 http://osnews.com/thread?303692 I really like this one.
Funny.
Keep it up. Thu, 06 Mar 2008 23:22:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (ManWithCamera) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?303749 http://osnews.com/thread?303749 Got this
http://kroc.deviantart.com/art/Marklark-Marklark-Marklark-32789616 Fri, 07 Mar 2008 07:46:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Kroc) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?303779 http://osnews.com/thread?303779 Makes me thing about the error message:

"Error: Error message not found"

(edit typo)Edited 2008-03-07 13:58 UTC Fri, 07 Mar 2008 13:58:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Andre) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?303797 http://osnews.com/thread?303797 yeah, funny as hell, hehehe

well, lets see what they come up with

i do remember the time where progress bar stopped meaning anything and they just helped you be more patient while a 4 hours install...

or, anyone remembers those programs where the progress bar goes back and forth several times?

lol Fri, 07 Mar 2008 17:32:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (gotten09) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?303800 http://osnews.com/thread?303800 Or:

"An error occured: No error." Fri, 07 Mar 2008 18:39:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (biffuz) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?303807 http://osnews.com/thread?303807 Windows (even vista if I recall correctly) still has those that keepp restarting from the beginning... over and over. I laugh the first time I saw that at the logic behind it. Fri, 07 Mar 2008 20:57:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Ikshaar) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?303811 http://osnews.com/thread?303811 I once had a progress bar that went over 100% Fri, 07 Mar 2008 21:52:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Andre) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?303917 http://osnews.com/thread?303917 Or the pt_BR quote from Windows 2K that translates into something like that: "This application could not be started be cause the workstation is turned off."


I think this one was the most funny error message I ever got.. Sat, 08 Mar 2008 17:32:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (AlexandreAM) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?303933 http://osnews.com/thread?303933 Still doesn't beat the old BIOS classic: "Keyboard not found. Press F1 to contunue..."

And nothing will *ever* beat Gnome's masterpiece. You know, the dialog box that pops up and says:

"Error: Success!"

with an "OK" button underneath. :-0 Sat, 08 Mar 2008 19:28:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (sbergman27) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?304021 http://osnews.com/thread?304021 "Unable to import Internet Account settings file because: an error has occurred." (courtesy of Outlook Express) Sun, 09 Mar 2008 22:37:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (StephenBeDoper) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?304144 http://osnews.com/thread?304144 This is the first one I've laughed at thus far.

You're definitely better at drawing dialog-box's than shut doors ;-) Mon, 10 Mar 2008 19:51:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Laurence) Comments