Bill Gates allegedly uttered those famous words when queried about auto-complete when typing into the Internet Explorer address bar.

Bugs are hardly new. The origin of the term computer bug dates back to 1945 when Grace Murray Hopper was working on the Harvard University Mark II Aiken Relay Calculator. On the 9th of September, the calculator was experiencing problems, and it was discovered that a moth had trapped itself between two relay points. The moth was removed and the event logged "First actual case of bug being found".

Eventually this incident became known as being 'debugged' and consequently the term 'debugging a program' was born.

60 years on and bugs have taken on a whole new meaning. In fact a large amount of software is released despite the authors knowing full well there are issues with it. Games in particular are prone to this, with fixes (patches) being released shortly after the initial game release. And as we all know too well, Microsoft Windows is full of security holes which are constantly being patched as they are discovered.

But this is hardly surprising when you consider how insanely difficult it must be to code software to run across thousands of hardware and software configurations.

The inspiration for today's topic comes as I stumbled upon an old screenshot I took of an error that occurred on my old Windows 2000 machine. While trying to empty a large amount of old files from the recycle bin, I was presented with this gem:

"Can not empty the recycle bin. Try freeing up some space by emptying your recycle bin"

With that in mind, what are some of the more amusing bugs have you experienced?