View Full Version : What's the biggest fcuk up you've ever done on a computer
yimmy
12 Oct 2006, 05:10 PM
A long time ago I had a customer send me their registry to check out and see if there was anything wrong with it. In my haste, I double clicked on the .reg file and my imported another computers registry into my own and ended up reinstalling the OS to fix that screw up.
Another time when I was just a lowly ops guy, I had to restore an exchange database in the wee hours of the evening but the restore host wasn't up so I just picked another host to restore to and I happend to pick the company's main email server. I ended up crashing it and made their email go down for about 12 hours.
Revolt
12 Oct 2006, 07:53 PM
22 years ago, I typed B:\ 'del *.*'
Erased my 360K floppy disk filled with a semester's worth of files.
Never made that mistake again.
JeremyEritrea
12 Oct 2006, 09:22 PM
A long time ago I had a customer send me their registry to check out and see if there was anything wrong with it. In my haste, I double clicked on the .reg file and my imported another computers registry into my own and ended up reinstalling the OS to fix that screw up.
Another time when I was just a lowly ops guy, I had to restore an exchange database in the wee hours of the evening but the restore host wasn't up so I just picked another host to restore to and I happend to pick the company's main email server. I ended up crashing it and made their email go down for about 12 hours.
Maybe you ought to consider getting out of the IT field.
techin
12 Oct 2006, 11:27 PM
Mine wasn't with the computer per se, but it affected a whole bunch of them. In a high school class, there were chairs on wheels (probably a bad idea in a high school classroom). Anyways, somehow I managed to snag a wheel leg on network cabling that wasn't covered by the strip pad that otherwise laid across the aisle. And when I wheeled away, I ripped whatever cables they were out from wherever they were connected to, crippling the entire classroom's computers for the afternoon. No one thanked me for lightening their class load that day, ungrateful bastards.
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yimmy
13 Oct 2006, 01:02 AM
Maybe you ought to consider getting out of the IT field.
LOL, done and done!
Ringo
13 Oct 2006, 01:50 AM
it wasn't me exactly ... but it was my fault. I let my kid pound on the keyboard. I have no idea how he did it (he was 18 months) but he killed off all of our photos. fortunately, we have a very good backup system and so I was able to restore them all.
but why I let my kid get near that computer I'll never know.
Many years ago I though I was haxor supreme and almost brought an end to life as we know it...
A movie was eventually made about my experience.
http://movies.sitenation.com/images/War%20Games.jpg
:D
Chiquitibum
13 Oct 2006, 08:06 AM
nothing yet, maybe because
http://upload.futbolmex.net/files/1/bornleet.gif
noaihmtch
13 Oct 2006, 08:29 AM
back in windows 98 days, i "borrowed" an anti-virus application from some untrusted source and it not only deleted all the hidden viruses on my computer but also everything on the harddrive.
good old days
IntheNet
13 Oct 2006, 09:47 AM
22 years ago, I typed B:\ 'del *.*'
Erased my 360K floppy disk filled with a semester's worth of files.
Never made that mistake again.
Try attaching a nasty e-mail in Outlook to an entire wideband distribution list; talk about reaching out and touching the world!!! Bad move!!!
Foosinho
13 Oct 2006, 09:54 AM
http://www.pb.unimelb.edu.au/emergency/template-assets-custom/images/big-flames.jpg
Grouchy
13 Oct 2006, 01:15 PM
One of our database tables was running out of extents (space) so I had to back it up and restore it. I didn't realize that doing so was going to take eight hours; so basically the entire business was shut down for about five. Line workers were happy. Management definitely wasn't.
When you have written code and done systems work on everything from a mainframe to AS/400 to Unix to Windows to PC-DOS to OS/2 as long as I have you are bound to f---up hard at some point. So it is really how you recover and make amends for your f---ups that matters. In the above trauma I did a lot of research and used a combination of pre-sorting, delayed high and low-level index key value writes, and large block I/O to get the restore time from eight hours down to about thirty minutes; benefitting the organization incredibly for years...
TheBlackKnight
13 Oct 2006, 09:10 PM
I just opened up my desktop computer to try to add more RAM. Now for some reason the connection to the monitor is ********ed up. Tested the monitor out on my laptop, the monitor works fine.
(I'm on my laptop typing this FYI).
Have to take it to a repair shop tomorrow AM.
********.
noaihmtch
14 Oct 2006, 07:33 AM
isn't it just taht you added a wrong memory for your pc and once you get rid of it your display come back alive?
TheBlackKnight
14 Oct 2006, 08:24 AM
isn't it just taht you added a wrong memory for your pc and once you get rid of it your display come back alive?
I couldn't even ADD the memory. The memory is located underneath my hard drives and I could NOT figure out how to dismount those hard drives to get access to adding the friggin RAM.
:(
Foosinho
14 Oct 2006, 09:06 AM
I couldn't even ADD the memory. The memory is located underneath my hard drives and I could NOT figure out how to dismount those hard drives to get access to adding the friggin RAM.
Just a word of warning, my photo is in reference to installing RAM in a computer.
TheBlackKnight
14 Oct 2006, 10:39 AM
Just a word of warning, my photo is in reference to installing RAM in a computer.
Interesting.
Doesn't matter - CompUSA has the machine now - they'll install the RAM and figure out how I ********ed up the video input.
Achtung
16 Oct 2006, 03:21 PM
Back in high school, I did something ********ed up with Scandisk and managed to format my entire hard drive. 4 GB was a lot of hard drive space in 1997 (it wasn't full, but still a lot to lose). :(
Achtung
16 Oct 2006, 03:22 PM
CompUSA has the machine now
God help you. ;)
TheBlackKnight
16 Oct 2006, 03:54 PM
God help you. ;)
Got it back THE NEXT DAY. RAM installed, they had to update my BIOS in order to install the new RAM as well as fix my video problem.
Was very impressed with their speed and quality of service.