The Thirteen Greatest Error Messages of All Time

This was on Slashdot today – so true!!!!!!!!!!!!!

"In theory, error messages should be painful at worst and boring at best. They tend to be cryptic; they rarely offer an apology even when one is due; they like to provide useless information like hexadecimal numbers and to withhold facts that would be useful, like plain-English explanations of how to right want went wrong. In multiple ways, most of them represent technology at its most irritating"

http://technologizer.com/2008/09/18/errormessage/