Catastrophic Failure

Crikey, haven't stumbled across this error message in my many years of coding before...



Despite the dire nature of the warning, my PC didn't explode or meltdown, and, in fact, after fixing the offending line of code, everything worked smoothly. You've got to wonder what the Microsoft developer who came up with error message was thinking at the time - 'ooooh, look, if they do this the database connection will fail. We'll give them a fright and call it a "catastrophic failure."'

Along similar lines, when I was upgrading from XP home to XP pro last week, during one of the several reboots involved in said process, I got a random error message: "File not found: Now we're stumped. OK?"
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