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Bugs in the wild - Outlook - Useless Error message

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What do I do with this information as a user? I don’t know how to troubleshoot this - nor do I have time to. Why can’t it tell me what RSS feeds it’s having a problem with.Useless Outlook Error Message.JPGOf course I searched for the error message using google. :) I searched for “outlook RSS feeds error” and “RSS feeds error 8004010F” neither of which yeilded a link to a solution.

Bugs in the Wild - Razor Cat

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I was playing around with a visual method of designing test - classification trees. I was bored of the same ole’ same ole’ you know. RazorCat is the only software that I know of that visually depicts classification trees. (although I haven’t looked that hard)

As I was signing up I got this error message. What would you do in this case? Where is the Hardware ID?

There is no hardware id in the form - ahhhh - I’m going insane :) It’s almost like the error message that said “Press the any key”


Bugs in the Wild - Monster.ca

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Here is a bug that didn’t impact me very much but I can easily think of a situation when it might.

I was looking for job descriptions to use as an example for a task I was doing. My search of QA had returned 504 results which was fine….until I couldn’t see them all.

In this context that’s fine - but what if I was filtering resumes here. The last 4 candidates wouldn’t get seen. They might be my ideal candidates!!

Video here

As I was writing this post I decided to see if I could reproduce this. I couldn’t get it with the “QA” query as it appears that there are only 495 postings related to that.

I tried another generic term “Analyst” - it returned 1821 hits and I could only get to 1000 of these. I used the go to page function - page 40 is the final page and there is no next button so now i’m either missing 821 potential jobs or the stats being displayed are wrong. Take your pick :)


Bugs in the Wild - Outlook - Another useless error message

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Aren’t you smart enough to tell me which of the two problems has happened?

Lesson Learned for programmers, testers, product managers, writers, and anybody who looks at software - Don’t put the word “OR” in an error message!!!

Outlook Bug

Youtube doesn’t handle my video files very well. I’m recording videos with BBTest assistant, exporting them as WMV and then uploading them to you tube. The quality of the video on youtube after this process is really low so I’m experimenting with flash videos. If you have troubles viewing this I’d love to know. Here is an example of how videos are looking on youtube after this process.


ITunes Delete Bug

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I’d like to show you a bug in iTunes. I’ve created a video to show this. This is the first time I’ve used a video to describe a bug in software (outside of my company). We do it all the time inside our company. Let me know what you think of this.

ITunes Delete bug