Here’s a new one (to me)- Twitter’s “Find People” function is not available, so we see the following message:
Twitter is stressing out a bit right now, so this feature is temporarily disabled.
How cute. Who doesn’t get stressed out when a hundred million friends are asking you questions all at the same time?
The Google doodle today is a set of Christmas cards. I say, “Merry Christmas” to you as well.
It’s not every day that a major search engine takes a nosedive into 404-land. I have to say, I’m surprised this isn’t a default IIS error page.
This webpage is not available.
The webpage http://bing.com might be temporarily down or it may have moved permanently to a new address.
Oops
This isn’t the page you wanted.
Try this
Refresh the page. If you get this message again please check back later.
While not technically a 404, I’m lumping it into my collection as a clever browser error message.
Well this is embarrassing.
Firefox is having trouble recovering your windows and tabs. This is usually caused by a recently opened web page.
Gotta love a team that has a sense of humor. Thanks to Howie for the screen grab.
Apple has ever so helpfully removed ODBC Administrator from MacOS 10.6’s Utilities folder. The software is now a standalone download from Apple’s website-
http://support.apple.com/downloads/ODBC_Administrator_Tool_for_Mac_OS_X
From Apple: The ODBC Administrator Tool for Mac OS X enables database administration of ODBC-compliant data sources. Features include connection pooling, trace log creation, and ODBC driver management, among other administration features.
As expected, The Chromium Experience on VMWare is really just a web browser at this point.
It did boot in about 10 secs. and I could see how this would be very nice on a NetBook, but for now- it’s just a overhyped browser running in a VM.
The Chrome task manager reveals a few details about what’s going on.
And of course the “Stats for Nerds” shows quite a bit more including Zygote & Sandbox helper.
Just when I had 10 minutes to review my projects, the project management system is down for emergency maintenance. With the link going to a description of timezones, I found this error to be pretty weak.
The system is down for emergency maintenance
It’ll be back by 3:00PM Central time.
Got this fairly vague error today at ProProfs.com. It is nice that it says there is an error and provides a link to try again, but pro peeps need better pro errors.
IPS Driver Error
There appears to be an error with the database.
You can try to refresh the page by clicking here
It’s been a while since I’ve found a good shot for the collection. So fun to be back on track with Bit.ly’s hand-drawn “bit.ly couldn’t find a link for the bit.ly URL you clicked” screen.
Uh oh, bit.ly couldn’t find a link for the bit.ly URL you clicked.
Maybe one of the pufferfish ate it, or maybe there are some extra characters on the end of the URL.
Most bit.ly URLs are 4-6 characters, and only include letters and numbers.
I’ve been dealing with an intermittent issue for about a year now where some of my mail messages never appear in the Gmail inbox. I usually access my Gmail using IMAP and rarely use the web interface.
Up until now, the only way I’ve had to find them is to search for unread messages and page through listservs and all sorts of junk looking for messages with no labels applied.
Today after waiting for an email that apparently never arrived, I decided to do something about it. First step, determine how many messages were really affected and find a search string to display them.
That string turned out to be:
is:unread -label:[gmail]-Meetup -label:[gmail]-ListServ-w3 -label:[gmail]-pr -label:[gmail]-listserv-su-alumni -label:inbox
After seeing the results of that query, all I could say was “Wow, this issue with my gmail not going into the inbox is much larger than I’d previously thought.”
So, I did some digging around in Google Labs and found the “Quick Links” add-on which let me save this search so that it’s never more than one click away.
Then, I spent some time going through hundreds of messages that went back nearly a year and found what I had been missing. Along the way, I could only think of two reasons this could be happening:
1. I’ve filed certain messages away in the web interface and Gmail has continued the “thread” in a mailbox other than Inbox.
2. I might have an IMAP email client configured incorrectly and it may be filing messages into non-existent mailboxes.
3. There’s some sort of glitch in Gmail.
More testing is required to get to the bottom of this, but at least now I can find the messages that are “missing.”