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Ever done an embarrassing computer blunder?
Ever done anything embarrassing with a computer, like something very obvious when you were using it or setting it up that later you had forgotten to do, or done in the wrong way? I for one just did this week on Monday with learning the lesson of "BACK STUFF UP" or in my case not....... I wiped my hard disk to put win 7 64 bit on.... It all went well. But........ I had made a fatal boo boo.. When I did the reinstall I was so sure I had backed up all the stuff I needed I find out later that I didn't check "My pictures" and lost all the copies of all the photo shoots I have done over the last 3 years........ I'm actually laughing about it now rather then crying....... Nov 16 12 01:07 am Link Not really. But you can likely recover most, if not all of those photos if you haven't written anything else to the hard drive. Nov 16 12 01:08 am Link R_Marquez wrote: too late, and I have. Nov 16 12 01:09 am Link thats funny actually for the first time a few days ago i thought about my computer breaking& losing all my pictures(..again) so i started moving them to sds Nov 16 12 06:39 am Link Reply All. Nov 16 12 06:43 am Link The "cloud" is our friend . . . everything automatically backed up . . . of course, me just tryin' ta turn the danged computer on can be embarrassing . . .  SOS Nov 16 12 06:45 am Link To Unix people, We wrote an rdel script, similar in action to rdist.. and I used it on roughly 100 workstations as a superuser, instead of rdist To non Unix people. I deleted, with one key stroke a computer application from 100 workstations instead of updating it. It was an oops moment. Nov 16 12 08:10 am Link Bought a Mac once. Boy was my face red! Nov 16 12 08:55 am Link Back up early, back up often. You should have a minimum of 3 copies of every file, 1 local working set of files, 1 local backup set of files, 1 off site backup set of files. Hard drives are cheap these days. I take it one step further and have a 4th set of files uploaded to an online data backup. Nov 16 12 01:45 pm Link AdelaideJohn1967 wrote: Nov 16 12 02:23 pm Link AdelaideJohn1967 wrote: I've done that. Since then, I keep my OS drive for my OS and programs, and keep all data (images, music, etc.) on separate, physical drives. Nov 16 12 02:46 pm Link My company's owner sent an 'open letter' to business blogger he had a disagreement with. Apparently he sent it to us only for informational purposes. I thought he wanted internal feedback, so I wrote a response critical of the blogger and his motives (with a few barbs) and replied all. I thought it was an internal list only. Apparently the blogger was on the list. Blogger ended up publishing my comments. Got his panties all in a bunch. Brought more heat and attention on our owner. Somehow I escaped relatively unscathed. Nov 16 12 02:54 pm Link I once deleted my Linux kernel by accident, back when it was a file stored in the root directory. This was in 1994 or thereabouts. Figured it out before I rebooted and managed to move the backup kernel into place. Boy was I red! # rm ./foo /* (note the extra - and fatal - space) instead of $ rm ./foo/* (yeah, I didn't notice that I was in a root shell  )Nov 16 12 03:19 pm Link Lawrence Guy wrote: LOL rm -rf. Nicely done Nov 16 12 05:06 pm Link  Nov 16 12 05:13 pm Link Aaron Lewis Photography wrote: Never lost data either - at least, not permanently. Nov 16 12 05:17 pm Link Like accidentally deleting 45gb of negative scans at 4am in the morning? Nope, never. Nov 16 12 05:35 pm Link In college, i was running out of storage room on my computer (PC), so i was going through and deleting all the files I had that I didn't really need. I was also doing a potential virus clean out too-- and I somehow managed to completely screw the windows operating system by deleting an important file. Whoops  I don't even remember exactly what it was- but my friend was all "you managed to do WHAT?" What can I say? Whatever it was looked pretty useless. I've been better since then Nov 16 12 05:35 pm Link |
