Stupidest thing you have done on a computer?

The cooler on my old 9800pro feel off, god knows how, so I bought a new cooler it also feel off I never noticed! It was clocked and got pretty hot, it went on fire! :(
 
Checked I chose the right drive/partition to format and reinstall Windows on. Checked again. And again, and once more before finally formatting the WRONG drive/partition and losing a load of work and some important stuff that belonged to the wife.

I now have at least 3 backups of everything important on USB drive, laptop, main PC and portable HDD, so even if I do **** up, I can laugh at sod's best efforts to thwart me.
 
Brian8bit said:
I usually use ps -ax to see what's running then use kill and the (PID) number of the process running. Though there's probably a saner way of doing it.
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Code: 
ps aux | grep 'process you're looking for' | awk '{ print $2 }' | xargs kill

Or just use killall as I said above, but make sure you're on Linux or similar. ;)

If you've run a command and it's running in the foreground of your shell, generally a good old two fingered salute of ctrl + c will kill it.
 
I forgot I had a Doris on MSN webcam when a mate knocked me back door, I made a T & sat down for a chat with me mate. :p
She was Not happy. :eek: + :D
 
Put a 486 processor in around the wrong way, the PC did a little bang and the turbo window cracked. At the time I was about 15 so it was a while before I managed to buy another one. :)
 
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Last stupid thing I did, was reach around the back of the modem to pull out the power cable, and accidentally grabbed the RJ11 cable.. Took me about 4 seconds of pulling to realise what was going on :o
 
Playing everquest 1 while very drunk managed to die in some far off zone, this was before corpses poped to zone in lines or pok.

Next time I logged it I did not even remember getting killed took a day and a half running round naked to find my corpse

Only eq players will get this I know.....
 
Just tried to open this thread to the warning of..

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everywhere else on ocuk seems to be alright. Has something to do with the link in mattyfez sig it seems.


So potentially continuing to open the thread and post this is the stupidest thing ive done :p
 
Jonesiani said:
Not what i did, but a mate of mine got stupidly drunk on Christmas Eve about 6 years ago.
He got up in the night and did a weewee on his keyboard and desk.
Silly boy.
His girlfriend wasn't impressed, as she awoke to watch the whole ordeal
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haha my best mate did the exact same with a laptop. he lifted it up like a toilet lid ****ed all over it then closed it back up. ****ing hillarious xD
 
4T5 said:
Wonder how many people have tried to give a fan a quick clean whilst it's spinning & snapped a blade off, I have. :o
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You obviously did it with the wrong fan.

A 120mm Delta wouldn't have broken that easily, although you would probably have required a new PC as they tend not to like the blood and the bits of finger spattered over their insides for some reason.
You may also have required a new finger or two...
 
I fell asleep on the start line of an online race & only woke up when the dude behind me crashed into me when the flag dropped. :D
 
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