I can't believe I did that

[machinebacon]

Luke 6:37

;)

[noo_b_nomnoms]

All my recent fails are well-documented right here, lols. Just check the stupid questions/smart answers section,lols.
Those darn Dell laptops and their confounded wifi switches! I have turned it off while online and spent ten minutes or better trying to figure out what went wrong!
I won't use some Linux distros simply because I wasn't paying enough attention during an install and accidentally installed over my dedicated data drive, lols. Wasn't their fault! 8-))
"I believe if I had a brain it would be disastrous, because I am already dangerous without one." Moi

[Dr_Chroot]

FTR, I can't believe I haven't noticed/remembered this thread before. It's been fun to read through :D

[ivanovnegro]

Those darn Dell laptops and their confounded wifi switches! I have turned it off while online and spent ten minutes or better trying to figure out what went wrong!

On my Thinkpad I spent even more than 10 minutes to figure out the damn switch. I cannot remember why I switched it off at all.

[machinebacon]

somebody here on the forums wondered why ctrl-a in tmux doesn't work if tmux is not running ;)

(sorry, this one had to be :D)

[machinebacon]

i share this one because it might even be useful to somebody:

got an eeepc 900 the other day, 2nd hand, it came with an old XP installation on one of the internal drives. told the vendor I'd like to have a US keyboard on that one (not a japanese). after I had got it i wanted to wipe XP and bang a bbq on it. could never get to the boot screen (at boot hit <F2> IIRC, where you actually choose which drive to boot from). /dev/null-ed the USB stick, formatted with ext2, dd-ed the ISO on it, then the same with fat32, all no werky. booted to XP, found that F2 actually yields F1, so F3 is F2 (reason: the japanese keyboard layout has one key more in the F-row). yey. rebooted, pressed F3, still nothing. checked the interwebz and found a blog post: https://lionpress.wordpress.com/2008/04 ... -settings/

long story short:
- remove the battery and power source, turn computer on <short flash of the led possible>
- wait a few seconds
- plug battery and power source back in
- boot up and press F2

pffff.

[noo_b_nomnoms]

^^Lols! I conveniently forgot about that! True story! There should be (figuring my brain-werkin's, atm) a few more before that adventure ends, lols.

[ivanovnegro]

Another story. I always told you my old HP rig did not boot from USB, damn how dumb I was. I always pressed the wrong key in the BIOS to boot from USB, for years!! When I retired it to stale and stable OSs it boots every ISO from under the sun shine.

[Theo]

Another one, and I guess I'm not the first or the last one that made this mistake. Two identical computers needed a new install. After the first one was finished I disconnect it and put it away. The next day I took that computer instead of the other one. During the installation I got that strange feeling.. Damn.. :P

[simgin]

^ Life is tough ehh? :D :P

This thread is nice and honest, it is about being human! We can be "super human" but we still leave marks in our underwear.

[Theo]

^ True, and making mistakes is an opportunity to learn something :)

[GekkoP]

Not me this time, but father-in-law.

He opened an email attachment without looking at the FROM field in his Thunderbird window. Crypt0L0cker kicked in, blasted his files and now is asking for a ransom of 300€. He's 66 years old, desperate about his documents and his photos. He listened to me and regularly backs up his files and directories, so not everything is gone, but still some files had yet to be saved on another drive.

I tried recovering the lost files using some Windows software such as Shadow Explorer and Recuva, but nothing good came out of those. Damn, what a day for him. I honestly feel sorry.

I never heard of this Crypt0L0cker before, actually never heard of any viruses in ages. This is pretty nasty, bastards have really improved in virus making since the last "Your computer is owned by the FBI" screen I saw.

[franksinistra]

Goddamn ransomware.... Sorry to hear that

[rhowaldt]

damn Gekko, that sucks. Hope you can sort it out somehow :/

not so much a "I can't believe I did that" but more of an "Ooooops": student wanted to show me something on the internet. Wanted to use the classroom PC but it was switched off and those fuckers are slow so we wouldn't have enough time cause it was the end of the lesson. So I said: use my phone. Kid types in URL bar: "www." - and Chrome dutifully autocorrects to whatever it think I should see first, which is "www.xvideos.com - Free Porn blablabla". Oh wellllllll. No response from the kid though. Maybe he decided it was best left unmentioned :D

[franksinistra]

^ one of the reason i clear my history whenever i finish surfing..... Your student seems quite the polite one though, bit rare these days. :)

[bones]

^ One of the reasons that I stick with Firefox: "Always use private browsing mode" - the only browser that allows me to NEVER save history. I don't get why other browsers don't offer this as a default option.

[machinebacon]

if you create a launcher for Chrome (using a wrapper), you can put the flag(s) there:

https://www.chromium.org/developers/how ... with-flags

There is the option for private browsing. I disable some gpu stuff that won't work on my old hardware anyway.

[franksinistra]

^^ but.... he said it's his mobile phone browser...... :)

[bones]

^ Yes, but even with desktop Chrome/Chromium, you can't choose "private browsing" as the default (unless you hack it), you have to choose it per session.

[Theo]

There is firejail which seems to be a good sandbox for security issues.