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  • Jonathan
    Senior Member
    • Mar 2004
    • 1229

    most idiotic thing you've done (comp related)

    Well, tonight I had a terrible time

    I locked myself out of the mySQL server (on personal comp),
    screwed up and accidently deleted phpMyAdmin (2.5.6);

    then nearly killed off the comp when I used
    DOS Command Promt trying to
    flush the mySQL password so I could reset it.

    After all this, have yet been able to
    get phpMyAdmin working again
    "How can someone be so distracted yet so focused?"
    - C
  • Crimzon
    Junior Member
    • Apr 2004
    • 13

    #2
    The most idiotic thing I have done is not made backups of my data, worst thing is when you lose it

    Although I try to burn a CD of my latest backups these days.

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    • Valr
      Junior Member
      • Mar 2004
      • 7

      #3
      Let my mother use my computer.


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      • avenuex
        Member
        • Apr 2004
        • 51

        #4
        rm -rf / home/user

        enuff said.. (note the space after /)

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        • openbox
          Senior Member
          • Mar 2004
          • 238

          #5
          Go from a 220V power source to a LAN party, switch my PSU to 120V, play 8+ hours of Warcraft/Starcraft/Diablo2, go home forget to switch PSU back to 220V and pop! After buying another $80 PSU and kicking myself......

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          • bd2003
            Junior Member
            • Mar 2004
            • 20

            #6
            Originally posted by avenuex
            rm -rf / home/user

            enuff said.. (note the space after /)

            thank gawd.. i thought i was the only one.. (only i didn't just limit it to user)...

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            • Grunfeld
              Senior Member
              • Mar 2004
              • 209

              #7
              I use to host with Feature Price ........a couple of years ago, well that was just nasty when they crashed and burned first time , I followed it after that and the second time was worse and I guess the third time ....well who knows and who cares .......
              Cheers,

              Gary
              (This space for rent)

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              • Jim
                Member
                • Mar 2004
                • 44

                #8
                Remember when DVD drives were real expensive.. well I had just bought mine and had the tray open and forgot about it. Well, something caught my attention and as swivled in my chair, my knee hit the open tray and ripped it right out of the drive sending it flying across the room.

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                • -Oz-
                  Senior Member
                  • Mar 2004
                  • 545

                  #9
                  Originally posted by Jim
                  Remember when DVD drives were real expensive.. well I had just bought mine and had the tray open and forgot about it. Well, something caught my attention and as swivled in my chair, my knee hit the open tray and ripped it right out of the drive sending it flying across the room.
                  Did the same thing when I had just gotten a CD-R (8x, cost me $300 at the time). Amazingly I was able to put it back together, also, I didn't learn and did it again later, and once again put it together again
                  Dan Blomberg

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                  • Jim
                    Member
                    • Mar 2004
                    • 44

                    #10
                    HEHE Glad I'm not the only one..the tabs/guides on the back of mine snapped right off.

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                    • Buddha
                      Senior Member
                      • Mar 2004
                      • 825

                      #11
                      I'm not saying! I'm also not sure of the statues of limitation or civil liabilities. Even if it has been 20 years!
                      "Whatcha mean I shouldn't be rude to my clients?! If you want polite then there will be a substantial fee increase." - Buddha

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                      • LVZ
                        Member
                        • Mar 2004
                        • 52

                        #12
                        Originally posted by Buddha
                        I'm not saying! I'm also not sure of the statues of limitation or civil liabilities. Even if it has been 20 years!
                        Statue of Limitation -- did GW Bush or Dan Quayle get memorialized?

                        ... or did you mean "statute"

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                        • Buddha
                          Senior Member
                          • Mar 2004
                          • 825

                          #13
                          Originally posted by LVZ
                          Statue of Limitation -- did GW Bush or Dan Quayle get memorialized?

                          ... or did you mean "statute"
                          Well, guess I'll leave like that!

                          ( That should drive him nuts! )
                          "Whatcha mean I shouldn't be rude to my clients?! If you want polite then there will be a substantial fee increase." - Buddha

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                          • Pedja
                            Senior Member
                            • Mar 2004
                            • 329

                            #14
                            Originally posted by avenuex
                            rm -rf / home/user
                            Similar thing. I was on networked computer (Windows 200 network) and wanted to clear directory so typed del .

                            w22 reported that I am on UNC path so he cannot execute but he will go back to my local disk and proceed. Message was so alike the usual warning that all data form the directory will be erased, that I did not pay attention, clicked Y and Enter.

                            In the middle of the deleting job I realized that I am killing folder of my current project...

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                            • Andy
                              Senior Member
                              • Mar 2004
                              • 257

                              #15
                              Most idiotic thing i have done was fdisk the wrong drive....Twice. First time too lazy to back up drive, becuase "I knew what I was doing", and lost all my data. Back ups i had were old, because I was lazy to back up. After getting everything,(well most things) back. I fdisk the wrong drive,(same drive) again. This time I had backups of my data I needed.

                              That was over a span of less then a month.

                              Now I have automated backups running every 3 hours, and archiving the previous 3 versions, and replacing the zip disk often as well.
                              Andy

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