Today's peeve

[ciphergoth]

Todays peeve is idiots who say "I got an error message" but are incapable of even attempting to read the message. Did it cross your mind that the text in that message might be for something, and you might learn something by reading it? If I don't know the error, how can I fix your problem? Or are all error messages just computerese for "SOMETHING FUCKED UP, MAKE SOMEONE ELSE FIX YOUR PROBLEM"?

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Comments

[babysimon]

Irritating Woman at work seems to take Java stack traces as a personal affront - she'll always refer to it as "an absolute load of shit" having come up on her screen. Tone of voice suggests she would think the software was *much* less broken if it just said "An error has occurred" or somesuch.

[dennyd.livejournal.com]

She'd be in favour of the Homebase website then... admire the second error message that gave me:
http://www.livejournal.com/users/dennyd/152719.html