The Weird Error Message Gallery
These are all genuine error messages I've gotten from Windows or Windows applications.
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This uninformative error was actually anything but catastrophic. Visual Studio just couldn't connect to the source control system.
OK, that's just a typo, but who makes a mistake that glaring? Especially when "Virtual" is already spelled right there in the title bar?
The dangers of long URLs.
This one's known, but was still pretty startling. Bad font symbols are a critical update?
Someone sent this to me. It's not exactly an error message, but it's pretty weird.
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