[noleli2]

Has anyone ever seen this before? It was in place of the "This application has unexpectedly quit" box.

[Ebby]

How'd u get it?

[Luca]

Uh, that IS the "unexpectedly quit" box. Apparently it thinks that the application that was running is named "ough a period...or casting o."

Weird. What application is it?

[usurp]

what application quit on u?

[noleli2]

Originally Posted by Luca Uh, that IS the "unexpectedly quit" box. Apparently it thinks that the application that was running is named "ough a period...or casting o." Weird. What application is it?

Ah! It is indeed. It was XFactor, by the way. It was very clever on their part, though.

[autodata]

Here's the article that the text came from:

http://ubl.artistdirect.com/music/ar...+the+Raide rs

[Brad]

Yeah, this is really easy to do. I just wrote a quick program that crashes with a message you might not expect.

Watch this:

Crashing the "Really cool program!" app (only 108 KB)

[murbot]

Stop it. You're burninating me.

[Wrao]

nice

[Brad]

On a related note, this ordeal reminds me of another old error I took a snapshot from TextEdit ages ago:



That is from TextEdit; I just had put a different icon on the app at the time. It's still reproducible in 10.3.

[Brad]

See?

[thuh Freak]

i try to put funny error messages into all my programs. i don't really know if they come out funny, but in me head they is. my favorite one to do is: "[application name] could not open the requested file. why the fuck did you corrupt it?" in my vast and overwhelming experience, users enjoy being incompetant and having their idiocy pointed out to them; especially when its my fault. other times i ask the user to join hands with their coworkers beside them, and mourn the unexpected quit which the program is about to endure. at which point, they bow their heads in silent prayer.