Helpful Message
I love useful, informative error messages that guide one through the use of an application. This is not one of them:
NOTIFYWN_OTEX_LLDS_082803: cidaemon.exe - Application Error
The Instruction at "0x7c34240d' referenced memory at '0x00000000". The memory could not be "written".This came up with no indication of what application or component it had to do with, and had to be clicked twice before I could do anything else. About as helpful as forcing the user to print out a full stack trace and eat it with mustard. Aargh.
I do like the quotation marks around “written,” though. This is perhaps a new word for the user, or simply a bit of opaque sarcasm on the part of a deranged OS coder: “I’m obviously talking about initializing an array of pointers to pointers in an electronic storage system, but I shall dumb it down for the idiot sheep who will use my masterpiece.”
As you may have inferred by now, today is my day of 31 flavors of computer trouble. And Fudge Brownie is NOT one of them.
