{"id":293,"date":"2008-01-28T19:56:53","date_gmt":"2008-01-28T19:56:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gaisan.com\/wordp\/?p=293"},"modified":"2009-12-19T23:25:57","modified_gmt":"2009-12-19T23:25:57","slug":"to-err-is-human","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/?p=293","title":{"rendered":"to err is human"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I thought <a href=\"http:\/\/www.regdeveloper.co.uk\/2008\/01\/28\/error_messages\/\">this reg article<\/a> on error messages was brilliant. Of course it makes sense that an error message would be required for a screen buffer related exception hence the &#8220;blem wit&#8221; extract from &#8220;There is a problem with the Memory Control Block for the shell&#8221;. Did windows TSR programmers of that era consider logging to files?  You betcha but debugging TSR&#8217;s was often a nightmare.<br \/>\nMy favourite error message for jaw-dropping unhelpfulness is the old win32 error<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Error: &#8220;The parameter is correct&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I thought this reg article on error messages was brilliant. Of course it makes sense that an error message would be required for a screen buffer related exception hence the &#8220;blem wit&#8221; extract from &#8220;There is a problem with the Memory Control Block for the shell&#8221;. Did windows TSR programmers of that era consider logging [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1707],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=293"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":458,"href":"https:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293\/revisions\/458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}