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Fansome

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The indistinct error was detected!
« on: July 14, 2015, 0302 UTC »
I got this message from MMSSTV this evening. Anyone know what it means?
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Re: The indistinct error was detected!
« Reply #1 on: July 14, 2015, 0318 UTC »
Your brain is overheating again, Al.

Remember last year, how sticking your head in that owl's burrow helped? Try it again, but use a vacant burrow.
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Re: The indistinct error was detected!
« Reply #2 on: July 14, 2015, 0333 UTC »
I checked with the oracle.  She says the future is uncertain but the end is always near.  And get more fiber in your diet. 
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Re: The indistinct error was detected!
« Reply #3 on: July 14, 2015, 0333 UTC »
You're about as funny as screen doors on a submarine.

Quote from: Pigmeat on July 14, 2015, 0318 UTC
Your brain is overheating again, Al.

Remember last year, how sticking your head in that owl's burrow helped? Try it again, but use a vacant burrow.
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Re: The indistinct error was detected!
« Reply #4 on: July 14, 2015, 0352 UTC »
This is why I value my membership in HFU so much; it is an unending font of radio-related wisdom.

Quote from: Lex on July 14, 2015, 0333 UTC
I checked with the oracle.  She says the future is uncertain but the end is always near.  And get more fiber in your diet. 
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Re: The indistinct error was detected!
« Reply #5 on: July 14, 2015, 0358 UTC »
Oh, you mean actual help?  Last time I saw indistinct errors on SSTV it was raining rabbits.  My PC knowledge ends after "Delete System 32".  Seems to fix all Windows problems.   :o
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Re: The indistinct error was detected!
« Reply #6 on: July 15, 2015, 0132 UTC »
Quote from: Fansome on July 14, 2015, 0333 UTC
You're about as funny as screen doors on a submarine.

Quote from: Pigmeat on July 14, 2015, 0318 UTC
Your brain is overheating again, Al.

Remember last year, how sticking your head in that owl's burrow helped? Try it again, but use a vacant burrow.

Screen doors, huh? That gives me an idea.

Get a hole saw, about 1-1/4 inches will do. Bore into your head around your left ear. Cover the hole with a section of window screen. Now drill out the right ear and install a pc fan into the hole. Power the fan with a 12 volt power supply at home, and the battery from that bag phone you still use, when you're on the road.

Air flows in where your left ear was and out where your right ear cavity now holds the fan. Your overheating problems are solved!
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Re: The indistinct error was detected!
« Reply #7 on: July 15, 2015, 1242 UTC »
All of this, and yet I still don't know what this error message means.

I did some Googling, and there were suggestions that it had something to do with a buffer overflow, but that sounded like a generic response. I had left MMSSTV running for a few hours before I saw this. It doesn't really matter that much, as restarting the program was all that it took to bring it back up, but I am always intrigued by obscure error messages.

Back in the days of the Arpanet, there was a program that ran on the college PDP-10 that would die with the message "La banda esta borracha", which apparently meant something like "the band is drunk". I don't recall what the program was or what error prompted the message.

There is a Lunix program called "strings"; it uses a heuristic to detect text strings in a file. I think I will run it on MMSSTV.
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Nella F.

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Re: The indistinct error was detected!
« Reply #8 on: July 15, 2015, 1708 UTC »
Quote from: Fansome on July 14, 2015, 0302 UTC
I got this message from MMSSTV this evening. Anyone know what it means?

                                                        What message?
                                                                ???
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Re: The indistinct error was detected!
« Reply #9 on: July 15, 2015, 1744 UTC »
That's why we humor him, Nella.

"La banda esta borracha" can easily mean "The band is crazy". Much like the folks in Echo Park used to shout when Al would drive by in his Hupmobile, "El Fansome es borracho."
« Last Edit: July 15, 2015, 1746 UTC by Pigmeat »
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Re: The indistinct error was detected!
« Reply #10 on: July 15, 2015, 2038 UTC »
Los cambitas - La banda esta borracha en HD

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ciKnRuYB-JU

I am missing a few protagonist in this video. ;D
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Re: The indistinct error was detected!
« Reply #11 on: July 15, 2015, 2212 UTC »
"The indistinct error was detected" was the actual error message. It came up in a pop-up "modal" window.

This has caused me several sleepless nights already. I'm just beside myself over it, and I don't know where to turn...

Quote from: Nella F. on July 15, 2015, 1708 UTC
Quote from: Fansome on July 14, 2015, 0302 UTC
I got this message from MMSSTV this evening. Anyone know what it means?

                                                        What message?
                                                                ???
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Re: The indistinct error was detected!
« Reply #12 on: July 15, 2015, 2350 UTC »
Quote from: Oliver on July 15, 2015, 2038 UTC
Los cambitas - La banda esta borracha en HD

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ciKnRuYB-JU

I am missing a few protagonist in this video. ;D

You've got to quit filming the company pool parties, Al.

I didn't think that Oliver Hardy mustache would work for you, but boy, was I wrong!
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Nella F.

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Re: The indistinct error was detected!
« Reply #13 on: July 16, 2015, 0041 UTC »
Quote from: Oliver on July 15, 2015, 2038 UTC
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ciKnRuYB-JU

                                :o  "Picante-Atractive-Estoy Caliente"  :o
                                                            8)

         Looked more like a Hitler 'stash but maybe me overstepping boundaries
« Last Edit: July 16, 2015, 0059 UTC by Nella F. »
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Re: The indistinct error was detected!
« Reply #14 on: July 16, 2015, 0456 UTC »
Where do you think Hitler got the idea?
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