your biggest **** up..

Burnsy2023 said:
RP? Ouch. What is the game plan for them now?
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na the catholic one :)

there is no real game plan, my manger is right behind me, it should not have been in that folder or using our SIMS SQL, but clearly i still feel terrible :(

on there point seriously not backing up a SQL database of that importance for 5 years !! eeek
 
_Jimlad_ said:
on there point seriously not backing up a SQL database of that importance for 5 years !! eeek
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I've seen it a few times round these parts, went to one school and they were receiving off-site backup completion notifications every day but as far as we could see, none of the important stuff was actually being backed up. :confused:

My biggest ****-up so far has been leaving a piece of paper with some IP ranges and passwords scribbled on lying around in a classroom. The kids wouldn't have been able to access the switches from those workstations, but it's still not the kind of thing you want them to get their grubby paws on.
 
After having the usual daily argument with my dearest Father, he gets in a flat panic because his PC has stopped working and he needs it for a subset of his work on the other machine. He starts blaming me and asks me to fix it for him. Remembering that the machine runs a mixture of SATA and SAS drives, I ask him what one is the boot drive, which is answered with some swearing and a tangent, but not what I need to know.

The machine is upright with the side off to allow for disk configuration changes. Mid way through the install, he pushes me out of the way to get past and knocks the computer over and manages to pull out the SAS connector. I asked him what drive it was since there were 4 in there and I'm met with more abuse, but no answer. He says that "you cannot run SATA drives on a SAS controler" in an indirect attempt to say "use the SATA drive". Not only was he wrong about the connectivity but none of the drives were different. Taking a guess I picked the top drive since normally you put the top drive on the primary port and boot from it.

After kicking off the install again, dad finally plucks his head from his backside and asks me what drive did I use?. "Well the top one because you couldn't give me a straight answer". "NO DON'T ****ING USE THAT DRIVE. IT HAS ALL MY DATA ON IT!. WHAT THE ****'S WRONG WITH YOU DO YOU NOT LISTEN?".

Had enough of him by this point so my retort was "Well it looks like you were wrong about the SAS controler. And since when I do anything to help you all you do is moan, moan, and more some more, you can ****ing finish it".



Not the best way of doing it but not a bad blooper :o
 
My biggest ****-up was intending to send a drunken suitably graphic text to an ex girlfriend, but accidentally sending it to my mother instead.

I doubt she ever expected her son to ask 'that' of her, nor expect him to bring the lube.

What made it more awkward was the fact I was invited over to my parents for a Sunday roast the very next day.

A traditional 'roast' before anyone asks.
 
Obligatory xkcd:
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I have to echo the A-levels comments :(
 
Thankfully nothing too major yet. At work the most visible of which was plugging in a 10Gb switch that formed a spanning tree loop in the network. Visible effects were a couple of small blips in the network and QoS working over time.
 
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