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windows vista dvd burn: got 130 years to kill?

Vista Wait Dialog

Ah, the power of Windows Vista. Check out this recent screen capture of the progress dialog that appeared when an unsuspecting Vista user tried to burn 15 megabytes of files to a DVD RW drive.

So if I’m doing my math right, the disk will be completed in 2138, a little over 130 years from…

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December 1st, 2007 comments (8) stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

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error message of the day

No Error Occurred

My previous all-time favorite error message was “Transaction Cannot Start in Firehose Mode,” but I think I have a new one to top the list. Apparently this error occurs when there isn’t anything wrong.

The head-scratcher of an error message simply reads “Error: No error occurred.” This gets me wondering why this message doesn’t appear…

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October 18th, 2007 comments (2) stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

filed under: computing just plain fun