STUPID STUPID STUPID STUPID STUPID STUPID!
Ok so I just got my computer working last week, and so today I was tweaking my registry to get some old programs working, and as a rule I always backup my registry before I start, but tonight was just a minor tweak, so I skipped that step. Well when I went to merge my new .reg files, I accidentally included a backup of my entire registry from an earlier instillation, an instillation where my WinNT folder was on a different drive letter...
STUPID STUPID STUPID STUPID STUPID STUPID

Anyway, I just finished restoring my system (less that 45 Minuets start to finish) and am feeling really stupid to say the least.

You can all point fingers and laugh now...
And while your at it, why not share your stupidest computer moments...

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"Well, if I am not drunk, I am mad, but I trust I can behave like a gentleman in either
condition."... G. K. Chesterton

“questions are a burden to others; answers a prison for oneself”

*raises arm*
*extends finger*
*inhales*

HAHAHA




I once modified a Win98 .sys file (I forget the name of it) in NotePad. Needless to say, Win98 failed to ever boot after that inncodent..

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"When all else fails, eat pie."
-¬thoughts from beyond observance

Do computers hate you or something?

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your curiosity will get the better of YOU one day.
Jon`C:Irony is spelling 'quality' poorly.
Spork:Well I think 'Irony is spelling grammar poorly'

ME? Ummmm... Well... Sorta...
I tend to run my computer REALLY hard, I have it on 24/7 many days, and I do everything short of overclocking (and sometimes actually overclocking) to get it to run better, faster, stronger. Also considering how many computers I work on, and how much I do with them, the number and severity of problems I encounter is not unexpected, just annoying... You name It I have probably worked on it/fixed it/broken it, with the exception of Mac's, I dont do mac's.

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"Well, if I am not drunk, I am mad, but I trust I can behave like a gentleman in either
condition."... G. K. Chesterton

“questions are a burden to others; answers a prison for oneself”


[This message has been edited by West Wind (edited January 05, 2004).]

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I'm not an actor. I just play one on TV.

Once, when I was new to Linux, I was doing some house-cleaning... I was running out of disk-space, so I was going to wipe a bunch of old files of a temp directory in my home dir...

So, I clicked on an open terminal, (which happened to be one with root priveleges) and typed this:



Most of the Linux users here should be able to see my mistake....

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The future is here, and all bets are off.

and for the rest of us?

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Rah!

*snicker*

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On a Swedish chainsaw: "Do not attempt to stop chain with your hands or genitals."
Immorality- 1 Cor. 6:18, 2 Tim. 2:22
Impure thoughts- Col. 3:2, Phil. 4:8
Alcohol- Eph. 5:18, Prov. 20:1
Anger- Gal. 5:22, Prov. 20:3
Pride- 1 Peter 5:5, Dan. 4:37
Worry- 1 Peter 5:7, Phil. 4:6-7
speech- James 1:26, Eph. 4:29-5:2

Hhahahaha

He added a space where he shouldn't have. Instead of deleting the temp directory, he deleted pretty much every file not in use.
Look closely: rm / home/gbk/temp/* -R
rm = delete. -R = Don't confirm (Right?)

And of course: / by itself means the root of the system, and as he was logged in as root, he deleted every single file.

Simply put, its the same thing as going to your C drive, selecting all, and hitting delete. Without a recycle bin.

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.hack//SIGN - The World - Just Believe

(Yes, This is Cool Matty)

hehe

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Rah!

I made a similar faux pas in Linux. I was cleaning out old crap in me box so after much directory changing, I executed the command rm -rf *. I thought I was in some other directory. Well the rm was taking a long time. I thought, what the hell was in this directory?! All of a sudden I was getting permission/in use errors...in /dev. Then in donned on me...I was in the root directory. Now here's the kicker, I had my windows partition mounted as /c. So I basically cleaned out my HD. To this day I'm still getting grief.

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<scribbly handwriting barely resembling name>

I was my laptop and drinking orange juice. I spilled my whole orange juice on keyboard by mistake. Not smart...

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Snail racing: (500 posts per line)
----@%

well, New Year Day, I keep having my system overheat, I check my power supply, and my fan has died. So I rip it out, look at it, take off the casing for it to check the wires, put it back together, and as I'm putting it back in, I've moved around quite a bit on a carpet, with out shoes while checking the PS, and guess that i reach in to put it back and I'm going to be shopping for a new mother board pretty soon...

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" You killed me. That wasn't very nice."
Noble Gases

My cousin was playing episode 1 racer on my comp the other day and we were driniking some coke. He spills the thing on the keyboard and because he wants to finish playing he doesnt do anything. I should have immediately let it dry but instead i left it there. So we go shopping and get a piece of crap old average keyboard and me is not happy.

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Here Ociffer, hold my beer while i look for my license.
*Remnant Temple beta taking a bit longer than planned but ill get it done*
Light And Darkness

I spilt pop on my keyboard when I was younger... had to get a new keyboard.

a friend of mine spilled a whole can of mountain dew on his family system... this was a p166 compaq (several years ago) so i thought "It's dead"
that system ran for 2 more years before they replaces it

heh, i love terminals that show what dir i'm in at ALL times (=

let's see... my own failures...
one time i ran a 1ghz Athlon T-Bird without any thermal paste, hehee.
after i added arctic silver i tried to remove the heatsink again (don't ask why... i have no idea) and i must've ground it into the core or something because a corner of the die is gone now ;D
that CPU now hangs on my xmas tree, hehe

i have so many other stories about my blunders... but i won't waste your time (=

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i thought about this being the anti-sig... or the sig virus... or the sig of your nightmares... but i decided that some painful rhetoric might work instead...
just kidding.

My system hasn't ran with thermal paste since I got it. It's bare metal, literally. And it only runs at 50 C. Not great, but not horrid. And stable as a beast. No way in hell I am going to chance damaging the die by taking it off and putting it on again though.

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.hack//SIGN - The World - Just Believe

(Yes, This is Cool Matty)

I messed up my win95 comp a couple years back. For some reason, all it wanted to do on the startup was load TIE Fighter! It got me so @#$%ing ticked off , I just snapped and disconnected one of the wires on the inside. BAD MOVE on my part! it shorted out the power supply. (my dad had the metal covering off to do some internal stuff) It was out of commission until last summer(maybe spring) when my dad installed a new power supply. It had some Humungo error on it and it had to be run in safe mode. I still get an error in a .sys file on startup about how the thing can't find the Cd drive or something (it's been a while since I looked at the message). I can use the CD drive though. The lithium clock battery is running down as you read, too.

Another amazing moment was probably my "amazing jynxing power" . I turned on my grandfather's printer, printed a paper, and then my luck caused the hard drive to start rattling and make f-ed up noises and give system errors on a blue screen with white letters. Turns out the hd somehow got damaged. My dad bought a new 80 gig hd for them to replace the destroyed 10 gig they had. That's my luck for ya.

I'm probably responsible for other pc probs we've had, though none as important as these 2.

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Darth Slaw
Destroyer of computer hard drives and other hardware. Let me on your computer and something will be broken when I'm done.
Guaranteed!

[This message has been edited by Darth Slaw (edited January 07, 2004).]

Every file in use, too, as soon as the file system closed them.

Once, i had about a 8 page report almost finished, and then i decideded to format my harddrive to fix a problem with anew game i got, since nothing else was working. i went meticulously through all my game saves and exxential progrmas and got them all backed up, started the reformat, and then, just after i wiped my drive, i remembered i didn't backup my documents. Had to do the whole report again, and it didn't make it any easier that office was acting up and kept reverting to an earlier version of my report every time i opened it, no matter when i saved it.

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"No good can ever come from staying with normal people"
-Outlaw Star
"Some people play tennis. I erode the human soul"
-Tycho, Penny Arcade

No offense or anything... but you're an idiot.

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MadQuack on Military school: Pro's: I get to shoot a gun. Con's: Everything else.
"I'm going to beat you until the laws of physics are violated!!" ! Maeve's Warcry

RIP -MaDaVentor-. You will be missed.

Well, a kid I know wanted a new computer, and I told him the easiest (for a computer illiterate person) way to kill the computer. I told him to cut something off the mother board. The next day he came and told me the computer wouldn't turn on. So he got a new computer. I asked him what part he cut..."It was theis black square that said intel on it..." He cut off his cpu......

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"Bantha's are filthy animals.......I don't eat filthy animals."

"Laugh it up Fuzzball!"
-Han Solo

As some of you know, I use to work in a computer testing facility, and for about a month there I spent all my time testing servers, mainly HP netservers and Netfinities... Anyway, I would test them, then the other techies would dismantle them, and then I would take the tray of parts, look them up on the manufactures website to get the OEM part number so I could catalogue them.

Anyway, we were working on a batch of HP Netservers, LH 2's I think, They had all tested good, so the other techs started dismantling them. I catalogued the first two trays of parts, but when I got the third tray I noticed something odd. All of these computers were powered by Pentium Pro's (some were dual CPU systems), and As I pick up the P-Pro to check the speed and L1 cache, I notice something odd, the ZIF socked is still attached!!!! I look at the second CPU, as this is a dual system, and sure enough the ZIF socket was still attached on that one!!! So I rummaged through the pile of parts and pulled out the CPU board (the cpu's have a separate back plane), and sure enough the ZIF sockets have been ripped right off the back plane board...

I still dont know WHO or HOW, but with nothing more that brute force one of the other techs managed to rip TWO zif sockets right off the board without doing damage to either to board or zif sockets (however, it was still impossible to re-attach it...) AND these are P-pro Zif sockets, they have literally twice the number of pins as anything elce!!

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"Well, if I am not drunk, I am mad, but I trust I can behave like a gentleman in either
condition."... G. K. Chesterton

“questions are a burden to others; answers a prison for oneself”

Quite true. Thank you. I have a short temper with many things. At least I didn't shock myself or anything (whew!).

Oh, I also had an experience similar to Noble Outlaw's. I had a project open in Microsoft Excel, and the thing took me an hour at least to type in all 500 some numbers, then I closed Excel and clicked to not save changes.

/mumbles under breath "stupid excel."

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- Darth Slaw -
Computer Assassin

[This message has been edited by Darth Slaw (edited January 08, 2004).]

Hehehe, I remember when I first got TIE Fighter and tried to get it to run on my 386. Turns out I didn't have enough memory. So I do a quick mem search to see what's eating up my memory. Dblspace.sys was being a memory hog, and not knowing what it was, I deleted it (I was 8 or 9 at the time). Fortunately, the command prompt still came up, so I was able to restore the system back pretty much the way it was (minus all DOS commands). I still use it for playing really old games. (Wing Commander 1 anyone?) Also, my hard drive, which at one time was 150 megs, is now 80 megs, thanks to a severe lack of dblspace.sys

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"I'm a funny guy, really I am."