I can't believe I did that

[ivanovnegro]

I was not a smoker at that time. Ok, I was heavily into passive smoking.

[ChefIronBelly]

^^^

Engineering it was the early 90's and they just assumed hard drive failure ;)

[GekkoP]

Did it today: resizing partitions (shrinking /home, more space for /) without any care whatsoever about the fact that I had still 4hrs of work to do. It took gparted 3 and half hours to finish all that, plus e2fsck and resize2fs to notify my system that now / is bigger. Well, still 20 minutes before leaving, so I guess I won somehow. Still, I'm an idiot.

[machinebacon]

The moment when you want to move the info window of gparted but the content doesn't get refreshed:
"Hm, should I xkill this now or wait?"

Love it.

[DebianJoe]

And if you change the content of files: comment, comment, comment :)

No! You can't make me.

[chilli]

Blew out the corporate public-facing web site. Blew out the backup on another server (within seconds of the first).

That was a nice 20 minutes or so until the restore from sysops. Right as soon as I realized what I'd done phones started ringing all over the place. I stood on my desk and made eye contact with my employer and mouthed something like "Me- sorry". After it was all back to normal I made the long walk over to his office. I just said "Housekeeping". He nodded his head.

[4eyes]

@GekkoP

Ditto - lost a huge chunk of yesterday doing the same thing :)

[wuxmedia]

@ chilli, sounds like an episode from here;
http://bofh.ntk.net/BOFH/index.php
(best read in links2 or other text based browser)

[chilli]

^Yup. Close to the same era too, but a bit later (still required a tape restore). Most everyone did something like that (rebooted the employee work server thinking they were just doing their local Sparc box, etc.), but this was one of my very own shining moments. :p

Thing was- it was so easily prevented, it was one of those procedural things you just do and don't even think about until it goes way south. After that I started color coding my xterm windows by server so I could tell right away whether I was in live space or work space.

[ChefIronBelly]

Thing was- it was so easily prevented, it was one of those procedural things you just do and don't even think about until it goes way south.

Are you sure (y,n)

- of coarse I'm sure :D

[franksinistra]

Thunder fried my lenovo g400 box this morning..
Gone now the motherboard, vga, psu and 1TB worth of p0rn

[machinebacon]

that sux. i lost a motherboard and a hard drive, too, thanks to weather. and two other hard drives because the hardware is made of rubbish. increase in size, decrease in life cycle.

[rhowaldt]

man, i don't get why they keep letting weather get away with this shit. where are the police!?

[wuxmedia]

another victim to Thor, I got lucky I had a lightening strike kill the onboad sound and LAN, nothing more.

[franksinistra]

the weather sux big time everywhere now
extreme winter here , flood and heavy rain there, raining thunder in my small town. Thor and Poseidon must be pretty horny right now

[machinebacon]

FS, are you in South East Asia? Stay safe, the weather can be quite a bitch there.

[franksinistra]

it is quite a bitch even now , i was forced to close my shop here due to the flood

[GekkoP]

Happened this morning:

- downloaded OpenBSD 5.4 iso
- happily burnt the iso to a CD
- inserted the cd in my Aspire 1304XC
- forgot about network cable and of course wireless needs a driver

[machinebacon]

wrong BSD version ;)

[elixir]

This is my favorite thread. Unfortunetly, I have many mistakes such as these so too many to share. I will keep you updated in the future though :D