We'll call you when it's ready

[Dips]

I sit in on the developers' meetings here because they sometimes need some input on how our customers use the program.

We were hashing out a new feature and trying to figure out the various ways customers could fark things up misusing it.

Someone kiddingly proposed putting up a useless error message. "[Program] is going to crash momentarily. Please don't do that again."

The only button would be "OK."

Another person proposed we put a "Why?" button as well. When they click the "Why" button the appropriate page from the user's manual would appear on the screen with a polite suggestion they read it.

[technical.angel]

Keyboard failure: Press F1 to continue.

I love it!

[Geek King]

Keyboard failure: Press F1 to continue.

I love it!

There's a good reason for this one, actually.

The failure detected is the lack of any keyboard detected. If you connect a keyboard and give the computer a valid F1 signal from it, the computer knows the failure status is now false, and to continue with the boot.