It's very easy for me to reproduce. It happens every time I try to print from the Photo Viewer in Windows.
For those wondering, the printing doesn't actually happen.
Thursday, October 14, 2010
Error: The operation completed successfully
This is one of my favorite computer error messages of all time:
It's very easy for me to reproduce. It happens every time I try to print from the Photo Viewer in Windows.
For those wondering, the printing doesn't actually happen.
It's very easy for me to reproduce. It happens every time I try to print from the Photo Viewer in Windows.
For those wondering, the printing doesn't actually happen.
Weekly Hotmail Spam
I have a Hotmail account that I never use; it exists because I wanted to use MSN and back in the old days you had to have a Hotmail account to use MSN on the web. Since nobody emails me on this account, all it receives is spam. Lately I've been noticing a disturbing trend with the spam: Once a week (exactly) I get one spam message that somehow misses the spam-filter and ends up in the inbox. My mail-checking program on my computer (happens to be Trillian) alerts me to a new mail, then I log in, delete the spam message, and log out.
Sometimes I've checked my Hotmail "Junk" folder only to find messages identical to the one that missed the spam-filter already sitting in my junk folder. This means that Hotmail knows that this message is spam, but decided to let it through anyway. There could be valid reasons for this; maybe other people have clicked "not spam" on the message? (Unlikely, given the content.) Maybe Hotmail thinks, "Messages just like this one were sent 100 times in the past month, maybe it's really important and we should let it through!"
But my theory is that Microsoft is annoyed that I'm not logging into this Hotmail account. By not logging in, they can make no money off of me. If I log in, I see ads, which generate ad-impressions, which they can charge money for on their ad-network. And if I were to click an ad, they'd make even more money off of me! Their solution? Let one junk mail a week come through, which brings me back to Hotmail to delete the message and allows them to show me all kinds of ads, and when I log off they can even send me to MSN's homepage to show me even more ads!
Sinister conspiracy plot or innocent Microsoft mistake? In the end I don't really care, because I'm getting free email out of the deal. Beggars can't be choosers. (And by the way, I can apparently get you a sweet deal on something called v1agara.)
Sometimes I've checked my Hotmail "Junk" folder only to find messages identical to the one that missed the spam-filter already sitting in my junk folder. This means that Hotmail knows that this message is spam, but decided to let it through anyway. There could be valid reasons for this; maybe other people have clicked "not spam" on the message? (Unlikely, given the content.) Maybe Hotmail thinks, "Messages just like this one were sent 100 times in the past month, maybe it's really important and we should let it through!"
But my theory is that Microsoft is annoyed that I'm not logging into this Hotmail account. By not logging in, they can make no money off of me. If I log in, I see ads, which generate ad-impressions, which they can charge money for on their ad-network. And if I were to click an ad, they'd make even more money off of me! Their solution? Let one junk mail a week come through, which brings me back to Hotmail to delete the message and allows them to show me all kinds of ads, and when I log off they can even send me to MSN's homepage to show me even more ads!
Sinister conspiracy plot or innocent Microsoft mistake? In the end I don't really care, because I'm getting free email out of the deal. Beggars can't be choosers. (And by the way, I can apparently get you a sweet deal on something called v1agara.)
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