March 26, 2009 at 10:44 am · Filed under Miscellaneous
I’ve been seeing lots of problems with Live Messenger connectivity lately. I see this message a lot:
I don’t ever want Live Messenger to interrupt my work with that dialog.
If connectivity fails, use a notification balloon, or better yet, do nothing. The red X on the tray icon already signifies trouble. Let me drill down to find out more info. This is a bad design decision.
If I dismiss the dialog, it will happen again. And if I don’t dismiss it? Well,
I left my machine from 9pm till 11am today and found my taskbar full:
Apparently Live Messenger thinks it is so important that I can’t connect that it needs to keep telling me. Or at least telling the task bar. This is a bug.
Live Messenger Team: Please fix this. I’m sure several of your myriad guidelines for Windows developers eschews any and all of this behavior.
Tags: Bug, Live, LiveMessenger, Microsoft, Windows
April 24, 2007 at 8:32 am · Filed under Miscellaneous
Pretty much the opposite of Double Happiness, John and Dan just got the Double Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) within 30-seconds of each other.
Grabbing some coffee and chatting to John, I saw the whole thing. Here is what happened.
- Some months ago, Dan tried to share a folder with John using Windows Live Messenger.
- John had Windows Messenger, so nothing happened.
- Windows Messenger has been crashing for John, so today he upgraded to Windows Live Messenger.
- First thing it does is notice that Dan has offered to share a folder with him.
- He says, “Sure, I’ll share a folder with you, Dan.”
- Dan says, “What?” — he doesn’t remember this.
- Then, John gets the BSOD.
- Dan and I kind of laugh about it. Losing your work is no laughing matter, but we laughed just the same.
- Then Dan gets it too.
While writing this, John got another BSOD. Making that a Triple Blue Screen of Death (or a Hat Trick of Death, the HTOD).
Tags: BSOD, Digipede, LiveMessenger, XP, XPSP2
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