Technabob » dialog http://technabob.com/blog Cool Gadgets, Gizmos, Games and Weird Science Mon, 13 Feb 2012 18:00:47 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Windows Vista DVD Burn: Got 130 Years to Kill? http://technabob.com/blog/2007/12/01/windows-vista-dvd-burn-got-130-years-to-kill/ http://technabob.com/blog/2007/12/01/windows-vista-dvd-burn-got-130-years-to-kill/#comments Sat, 01 Dec 2007 22:00:51 +0000 Technabob http://technabob.com/blog/2007/12/01/windows-vista-dvd-burn-got-130-years-to-kill/ 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.

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So if I’m doing my math right, the disk will be completed in 2138, a little over 130 years from now. The good news is, that should be just in time for Vista SP2 to be released.

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The head-scratcher of an error message simply reads “Error: No error occurred.” This gets me wondering why this message doesn’t appear every time an error doesn’t occur. Heck, it should be the norm in all applications. Then, the absence of an error message would mean that something really went wrong. Seems like a good idea to me. Maybe it could be part of the Web 3.0 standard.

It’s all part of my evil plan to make millions selling pop-up blocking software to prevent these buggers. Whoops, did I say that out loud?

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