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HTTP 404
HTTP error response code
Blue Screen Of Death
error screen displayed on a Microsoft Windows computer system following a fatal system error
division by zero
the result yielded by a real number when divided by zero
error detection and correction
techniques that enable reliable delivery of digital data over unreliable communication channels
2024 CrowdStrike incident
global computer systems outage

mojibake
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glitch
thumb|upright=1.3|A railway station display affected by a visual glitch, corrupting some of the text
logging
chronological record of computer operations
kernel panic
fatal error condition associated with Unix-like computer operating systems
system crash
abnormal situation when a computer program such as a software application or an operating system stops functioning properly and exits
403 Forbidden
HTTP response status code
segmentation fault
fault, or failure condition, raised by hardware with memory protection, notifying an operating system the software has attempted to access a restricted area of memory
garbage in, garbage out
expression
core dump
record of memory at the exact moment a computer program crashes, is terminated or explicitly requests a dump
stack overflow
type of software bug
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reboot
In computing, rebooting is the process by which a running computer system is restarted, either intentionally or unintentionally. Reboots can be either a cold reboot (alternatively known as a hard reboot) in which the power to the system is physically turned off and back on again (causing an initial boot of the machine); or a warm reboot (or soft reboot) in which the system restarts while still powered up. The term restart (as a system command) is used to refer to a reboot when the operating system closes all programs and finalizes all pending input and output operations before initiating a sof
syntax error
error in the syntax of a sequence of characters
brick
totally non-functional electronic device
Hyper Text Coffee Pot Control Protocol
communications protocol for controlling, monitoring, and diagnosing coffee pots
error message
message displayed on a monitor screen or printout indicating that an incorrect instruction has been given or that there is an error resulting from faulty software or hardware
glitch art
practice of using digital or analog errors for aesthetic purposes
page fault
when a running program accesses a memory page that is not currently mapped by the MMU into the virtual address space of a process
zero to the power of zero
mathematical expression with no necessarily obvious value
black screen of death
error screen displayed by some operating systems after encountering a critical system error which can cause the system to shut down
1983 Soviet nuclear false alarm incident
incident which nearly precipitated nuclear warfare
Linux kernel oops
type of error on the Linux kernel
Guru Meditation
error notice displayed by the Commodore Amiga computer
hang
computer software failure mode in which a process makes no progress and stops responding to input

netsplit
In computer networking, specifically Internet Relay Chat (IRC), netsplit is a disconnection between two servers. A split between any two servers splits the entire network into two pieces.
logic error
a bug in a program that causes it to operate incorrectly, but not to terminate abnormally
dependency hell
frustration of some software users who have installed software packages which have dependencies on specific versions of other software packages
Halt and Catch Fire
several computer machine code instructions that cause a computer's CPU to halt
Xbox 360 technical problems
overview of the hardware failures of the Xbox 360
stack buffer overflow
software anomaly
general protection fault
computer error on the Intel x86 architecture
bounds checking
technique in computer science where variables are ensured to be within bounds before use
screen of death
type of error message
bomb
symbolic image used to represent a bomb
fatal exception error
error that causes a program to abort
list of FTP server return codes
Wikimedia list article
Software brittleness
description of how difficult software is to modify
Bus error
Type of computer fault
500 Internal Server Error
HTTP response status code
Bad command or file name
MS-DOS error
Not a typewriter
error code
out of memory
state of computer operation where no additional memory can be allocated