After a few error messages, some angry tweeting and a little hyperventilating, things returned to normal.
The flood of messages slowed Twitter to a crawl at times or produced error messages saying the site was over capacity.
As a result, users began to experience error messages when attempting to access their downloadable content, indicating that the DLC was unauthorized.
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Kind of like how Microsoft jumps on those error messages every time Windows asks if you want to report it to them, right?
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Other pesky problems are confusing file names, command and error messages, the PC's notorious and so far intractable complexity, and inadequate protection of privacy.
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The only clues for Web surfers that a page was akamade is the wait they didn't endure and the error messages that didn't occur.
The "warhead" names appeared as links, most leading to 404 error messages of pages not found, but some leading to pages of raw programming code.
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As long as you pressed that save button, didn't get any error messages for your trouble, and your hard drive still boots up, that data is somewhere on this side of oblivion.
That settled, I hashed out the text for a link on the home page and a dozen error messages that would be displayed randomly if someone entered a query in the MentalPlex search box.
Non-Facebook users can of course entertain themselves with the simple browser, but note that it didn't handle big websites well -- we had error messages about insufficient memory, so you should stick to mobile sites.
The fiasco started right when the Dell Vista Upgrade site opened for business, with the sudden flood of visitors being blamed for site crashes, delays and error messages, and downtimes lasting as long as 24 hours at a time.
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But after making both the newspaper and pillow requests, we received two messages in our Conrad Concierge app mailbox: One flagged an error with our request, and another said our request had been submitted. (We decided to be optimistic.) You can also request to have a text-message confirmation sent to your phone, too.
It can, definitively and without error, identify spoofed emails like the fake FedEx notice I had, or the fake LinkedIn messages, IRS notifications, friend requests etc. that weave their way into all of our inboxes every day.
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