Another Hidden Error

[dcemuser]

This one is just plain funny - no mooning involved.

When I was trying to figure out a fast way to do rebuild bitmap files, I moved the H2Tool.exe out of its folder. It told me it needed a .dll file, so I went back and got that too. When I ran it again, this happened:

http://img485.imageshack.us/img485/6431/itsborkingatmeiw6.jpg

I know this isn't anything terribly special, but I thought I'd share it anyway.

[Con]

what is bork bork :confused2:

[Skyline]

It must be a hidden message ;).

[Neuro Guro]

I think its Bungie's version of swedish, old letter to the webmaster joke

Hi! I´m going to write this letter in swedish, OK?

Hej ditt feta as vafan skulle ni assimileras av pyttemjuk för? jag blev
ju fan förbannad när ni gjorde ert första spel till windows. när jag
vart så snäll och köpt alla! av era spel som kommigt till sverige!

thx

Olle Strandman,
Olle-
We used to have a Swede on-staff to answer questions like this, but he fell out with the local gang 'round our old offices and was forced to flee the country. I was forced to resort to my second choice, Doug Zartman. Doug's a very well-spoken young man, and I figured he must be fluent in Swedish what with all those funny videotapes he used to order from that region. So I sent him your letter and asked him to craft an appropriate response, knowing he would do so with the intelligence and charm that infuse everything he writes. Here it is:

"Bork bork bork bork bork, borski bork bork, floogen hoogen, borkski bork bork floogen bork."

http://www.bungie.net/Inside/letters.aspx?letter=10988

[dcemuser]

It's a reference to a character from the Muppets known as the Swedish Chef who talked in gibberish all the time and frequently yelled BORK.

"The Chef's gibberish (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gibberish) gained a life of its own with the creation of a Unix (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix) lex (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lex_programming_tool) filter capable of converting standard English to "chefspeak" in 1992 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1992). The filter quickly became a staple of hacker culture (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacker_culture) and eventually spread to the mainstream with "Swedish Chef" translators on several websites; there is a popular add-on available for Mozilla (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla) Firefox (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firefox) called "Bork Bork Bork!", which allows the selective "translation" of text from web pages of the user's choice." - wikipedia

It is also frequently used as a term to mean broken (e.g. I BORKED H2Tool).

It's probably a reference to both in this case.

Edit: Neuro's explanation is very likely as well.

[BobtheGreatII]

what is bork bork :confused2:


It's also something that you would use in a little bubble above some kinda joke between two Elites.

[Kornman00]

Its their catch-all for missing localized strings and such, not really "hidden"

[dcemuser]

Its their catch-all for missing localized strings and such, not really "hidden"

That makes sense; I'd just never seen it before or heard anything about it.

[Syuusuke]

Banana fork.

[Llama Juice]

When you write programs sometimes you want to just put a message like that that is easily identifiable in case if your program runs into a part of the code that you do not want it to get to with certain settings... I used to use Bork aswell... but... that's just coincidence. I did it because it's funny sounding.