Justin had some interesting comments on serviceability and error messages:
http://tinfoilsoldier.com/blog/2007/11/02/net-helpmsg/
I run into this crap CONSTANTLY day after day trying to figure out what a certain error message means. Turns out it all depends on who programmed the lines of code spitting out your specific error.
Suck! We need to make this better from the start. Programs should never print out
I now know at a glance that
-1932787616 translates to FFFFFFFF8CCC0060 which means “Directory Login Failure”…. but dammit I had to open the C header file to find that error defined.
What.
The.
Fuck.