Stupidest thing you have done with a computer?
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Ow that reminds me of another I did about 8 months ago,
Was working on an HP ML server (can't remember the exact model though I know it was a rack one) and the fans were running really loud and was giving me a blinding headache so I took 3 of them out and then 5 minutes later the machine turned itself off - the heat-sinks on the dual Xeon CPU's were roasting!
Thankfully no harm done, though it did take a while to get rid of the thermal shut down errors in the BIOS
Not With my computer but one of my fans had come loose and fell onto the floor next to my computer (the side of my computer was off) and i started my computer up, the fan went crazy and one of the screws that came undone came flying up and smacked me in the eye, i then kneed my computer and broken my case
Made me lol
Not sure what mine is... will put one tomorow when I think of one.
Brought the fan heater over to face my chair as it was chilly one evening.
Must have fidgeted or something and knocked the fan heater so that it was pointing directly in the front fan ducts.
I physically couldn't touch the case (Aluminium Lian-Li) it was that hot and the power and reset buttons had melted.
Still working though.
I just have to poke my finger inside the front cover now to access the "stalk" further in to switch it on.
Must have fidgeted or something and knocked the fan heater so that it was pointing directly in the front fan ducts.
I physically couldn't touch the case (Aluminium Lian-Li) it was that hot and the power and reset buttons had melted.
Still working though.
I just have to poke my finger inside the front cover now to access the "stalk" further in to switch it on.
Managed to get onto a work colleague's login and into his Outlook, then as a joke typed out an email that went like this:
"Please sack me asap, I would like to have sex with you and your wife, you can have a go with mine, she's a bit of a dog but what the hell"
(word for word - it's kind of burnt into memory now)
In the 'To' I addressed it to the main boss of the entire department, then being funny (in retrospect it wasn't) and with a crowd of laughing co-workers I pretended to hit send - only I did actually send it.
Que immediate drainage of all blood from my face and the sudden realisation I have just lost my job, followed by the panic reaction of turning the box off - didn't know about recall message until after doing this
So yeah, last I heard that story had started doing the rounds in offices in Swindon, the colleague who I sent the mail from was suspended, I got fired after an internal investigation, and I live in fear of said old boss finding me and taking me up on the offer!
Scort.
"Please sack me asap, I would like to have sex with you and your wife, you can have a go with mine, she's a bit of a dog but what the hell"
(word for word - it's kind of burnt into memory now)
In the 'To' I addressed it to the main boss of the entire department, then being funny (in retrospect it wasn't) and with a crowd of laughing co-workers I pretended to hit send - only I did actually send it.
Que immediate drainage of all blood from my face and the sudden realisation I have just lost my job, followed by the panic reaction of turning the box off - didn't know about recall message until after doing this
So yeah, last I heard that story had started doing the rounds in offices in Swindon, the colleague who I sent the mail from was suspended, I got fired after an internal investigation, and I live in fear of said old boss finding me and taking me up on the offer!
Scort.
Went to build a mates pc, put it all together and it wouldn't boot.
While it was ON, I switched the PSU from UK to US, a great flash of light a a huge bang blinded a deafened me for about 10-20 seconds.
Now I know what it's like having a flash bang go off right in your face.
While it was ON, I switched the PSU from UK to US, a great flash of light a a huge bang blinded a deafened me for about 10-20 seconds.
Now I know what it's like having a flash bang go off right in your face.
I did that in school with a fake email but forgot Hotmail adds your real name to the end in form of a signature...
So I got caught and suspensed and had to right an apology.
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Decided to kick off a partition resize - wait for it - Whilst on the bus with my laptop !
Fortunately the battery didn't fall out/didn't get a loss of power - If I did I would have lost all my data. With the fresh new partition I kicked off a windows xp sp3 install.... and it was as you would expect from windows - RUBBISH
Back on Linux posting this albeit minus 8gig that has been wasted on windows xp
Decided to kick off a partition resize - wait for it - Whilst on the bus with my laptop !
Fortunately the battery didn't fall out/didn't get a loss of power - If I did I would have lost all my data. With the fresh new partition I kicked off a windows xp sp3 install.... and it was as you would expect from windows - RUBBISH
Back on Linux posting this albeit minus 8gig that has been wasted on windows xp
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Many years ago on a very cheap case I was poking out the pci-blanking plates (the kind that have a little tab of metal holding them in still, yeah.. cheap kind).
Anyway my screwdriver wasn't to hand and so I used my instead.
I still have the scar where it literally flayed the skin off!
Your What?
no you didn't... there is no way you could "fry" the electrics in your mates house by doing that.
no you dont.
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