Most asinine thing you ever did with computers?

Back in the days of Windows 95 I contracted that trojan BackOrifice. I didn't know what it was at the time... so I just went into the running proccesses menu and looked at what was running.

"msmsgs32.... what is that? Hmm... end task... delete file"

I learned a lot about formatting and installing Windows after that one!

Went into the RP IRC channel.

oh and once, I was wizard on a mush and I did a search and delete on some users items, hmm I must have used a bad wildcard , I deleted the whole Mush DB.
ROFL about 600 active users and everything they owned and built gone, thank god for backups

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Leilu wrote:

Ishmael wrote: Mugaaz wrote: khrath wrote: One time I set up a beowulf cluster with my server that connected to vmware virtual servers as slaves on my winxp boxes.....and actually made it work. Just curious if anyone else does stupid computer shit just for the sake of being able to say they did it. I tried to build my first comp. Knew everything, just had never done it before. Turn it on and would not f*****g work. Not even POST. Tried every f*****g thing I could think of, talked to whole bunch of people, nothing would f*****g work. Finally I realized I had forgot to put the motherboard on risers when I had attached it to the case. I fried every piece, so I just returned all for a refund, saying I just didnt want it and had changed my mind, then moved. Hehe, done that. Yeah I did that with the first computer I built. Except the motherboard sparked and ignited a small fire when I turned it on. It only melted a little and the fire was small enough for me to just blow out like a match. Surprisingly, I returned it to whoever I bought it from and said it came defected. I specifically remember the guy saying, "Ma'am, it was caught on fire. This is unusable!" And I was all, "YEAH! MY THOUGHTS EXACTLY. So how soon can I expect my new one?" I still can't believe I got away with that one.

From all accounts you are teh supar hawt and im sure that had something to do with it.

Beer through the vent hole in the top of my case, that was pretty bad.

Bait Masterson wrote:

From all accounts you are teh supar hawt and im sure that had something to do with it.

Except it was a mail order company and any interaction I had was over the phone. HAH!

I did include a signed 8x10 glossy with the receipt though.

When "disposing" of my obsolete, virulent PC in high-school a friend and I took turns whacking it with a bat and/or hatchet. We got bored and started in on the monitor (hard to shatter the screen, lol!), which promptly filled my lawn with shards of glass.

IceIsFun wrote:

When "disposing" of my obsolete, virulent PC in high-school a friend and I took turns whacking it with a bat and/or hatchet. We got bored and started in on the monitor (hard to shatter the screen, lol!), which promptly filled my lawn with shards of glass.

PC load letter?

sinrakin wrote:

IceIsFun wrote: When "disposing" of my obsolete, virulent PC in high-school a friend and I took turns whacking it with a bat and/or hatchet. We got bored and started in on the monitor (hard to shatter the screen, lol!), which promptly filled my lawn with shards of glass. PC load letter?

WHAT THE f**k DOES THAT MEAN?

wrote a program for a basic stamp to act as a watchdog for an isdn t1 router. When everyone started getting isdn and it was a fixed price, everyone got these routers that would nail up the connection, so people would start getting busy signals

To combat it, SWB would drop the connectivity of your line. The basic stamp talked to the router, and triggered a relay resetting it if packets couldnt get through.

Gethy wrote:

sinrakin wrote: IceIsFun wrote: When "disposing" of my obsolete, virulent PC in high-school a friend and I took turns whacking it with a bat and/or hatchet. We got bored and started in on the monitor (hard to shatter the screen, lol!), which promptly filled my lawn with shards of glass. PC load letter? WHAT THE f**k DOES THAT MEAN?

Why does it say Paper Jam when where is no Paper Jam?!

when i went out to california to start my first real job as a firewall admin, i was learning solaris and sendmail (i only knew checkpoint gui policy stuff and basic solaris route adds/deletes for NAT) when i encountered one of our customers filesystems was full. I thought I'd be slick and do a find -mtime +15 | rm * to impress some friends on network side of the house, yeah i freed up some file space alright..... I emptied out the entire email que for a whole customer corporation lol, those god damn quotes!

I still get teased about this... Of course, now that i think about it - its pretty god damn funny.

i have been playing with 12 left over netra 1280s using them as 'redundant' backup for my little ultra 10 workstation, the netra 1280s are emc'd as well, i really just got carried away with rsync.

Leilu wrote:

Ishmael wrote: Mugaaz wrote: khrath wrote: One time I set up a beowulf cluster with my server that connected to vmware virtual servers as slaves on my winxp boxes.....and actually made it work. Just curious if anyone else does stupid computer shit just for the sake of being able to say they did it. I tried to build my first comp. Knew everything, just had never done it before. Turn it on and would not f*****g work. Not even POST. Tried every f*****g thing I could think of, talked to whole bunch of people, nothing would f*****g work. Finally I realized I had forgot to put the motherboard on risers when I had attached it to the case. I fried every piece, so I just returned all for a refund, saying I just didnt want it and had changed my mind, then moved. Hehe, done that. Yeah I did that with the first computer I built. Except the motherboard sparked and ignited a small fire when I turned it on. It only melted a little and the fire was small enough for me to just blow out like a match. Surprisingly, I returned it to whoever I bought it from and said it came defected. I specifically remember the guy saying, "Ma'am, it was caught on fire. This is unusable!" And I was all, "YEAH! MY THOUGHTS EXACTLY. So how soon can I expect my new one?" I still can't believe I got away with that one.

I was just about to do this with a computer I built for my aunt.

After reading this post I'm about to check to see if it has spacers I think it does but I was not paying attention when building it.

I hooked up every PC to that SETI Program back before I got laid off. Had like 350+ PC's on it.