I got this error message twice today (click for un-cropped version, it didn’t resize well). Must have been about 13 years since the last time I saw that as an actual error message (in a non-crash context I’ve seen it when playing around with Linux and there was an error-message screensaver that came with KDE).

Any, seeing the good, ol’ Amiga guru meditating on my WinXP machine was one of those fascinating “wtf…?” experiences. My first thought was “virus!”, but the nostalgia made me less worried than I normally would be about a weird error message. Like that little familiar flavour would make it alright if my PC suddenly started smoking…

Anyway, after a bit of googling it seems to be some Winamp coder who decided to go old-fashioned on the error reporting. Software errors aren’t actually fun, but I guess that when they bring a smile like that… :)