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[dasickninja]

Acts of God so count. Thanks and Welcome to the Forumz

 

[dasickninja]

I got to thinking (not safe for the world) we all talk about the hardware screw ups that we're commited but what about the software. As in what software have you ever loaded onto your rig, and it completly screwed it up. Norton anyone?

 

[ches111]

Welcome to THG Lapsed!!

 

[ches111]

Crystal Reports used to be an almost guaranteed fubar...

 

[HYST3R]

I got to thinking (not safe for the world) we all talk about the hardware screw ups that we're commited but what about the software. As in what software have you ever loaded onto your rig, and it completly screwed it up. Norton anyone?

anyone ever try to skin windows xp, or change the way that it looks?

i had a short run in with a program called, "windows blinds". lets just say you want to be extremely carefull when messing with the way that windows looks. one time instead of choosing one option at a time, i was eager to get it all setup so i checked all of the options at once and hit apply changes. well the next thing i know, my windows explorer is acting up all the tabs and buttons on windows are all jumbled. any command is taking near five minutes to respond, including opening the start menu. had to fix it by right clicking the icon by the clock, waiting five minutes, then uninstalling the program. a reboot and everything was normal. wow, a close one, and i had just installed windows and all programs and games, i did not want to do it all again.

 

[bga]

I have been lucky and not burned a lot of hardware, but through the years I have still seen some pretty unfortunate things happen...

One of the most strange and destructive events, was when the CFO of my work burned quite a lot of equipment, probably due to ESD or improper grounding. Even to this day it is a mystery how things could go that bad.

The actors in the drama was: 1 CFO, 1 IT supporter (me ), 2 Olivetti M24 PC's (8086 - 6MHz - top of the line at that time) and two matrix printers.
First the CFO disconnected printer 1, from PC 1, without turning off the equipment first. Then he connected printer 2 to PC 1.
... No printing... Nothing. Hmmm, he thinks for him self, something must be wrong. I'll try to connect printer 2 to PC number 2. Still no printing.
Ok, printer 2 must be bad.
Then he reconnects printer 1 to PC number 1 - that ought to work ..... dead silence... nothing...
After that he calls the IT department, and I climb upstairs to the executive offices to see whats wrong. After testing the equipment, I could conclude that the casualties consisted of two dead motherboards and two dead matrix printers. I had told him it was best to turn the equipment off, before changing connections, but having seen me earlier on changing printers rather carelessly, he concluded that he could do the same - no such luck, though.
Turns out, that I was the only one favored by the gods of (static?)electricity.

I have had a few software disasters. One involing FDisk and forgetting to change active disk to the correct one, before deleting and recreating partitions. And no current backup. It only took a day, while sweating profusely, to recreate the disk with the help of a diskeditor 😳

 

[dasickninja]

Somehow, I feel less and less like going into the IT field...

 

[uber_g]

Now where the hell is my anatomy class?

8===D <-- there :lol:

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[dasickninja]

[g]..Bastage...[/g]

 

[Flopmouth_Fish]

[g]..Bastage...[/g]

WHAT THE HELL DOES THAT MEAN?

 

[dasickninja]

Oh nothing Ducky. Nothing at all.

 

[Flopmouth_Fish]

Oh nothing Ducky. Nothing at all.

please; call me fishy. i like this name a lot more than the other one.

 

[dasickninja]

Alrighty then Fishy.
Haven't you taken a step down in the evolutionary chain though?
From Duck to Fish?

 

[Flopmouth_Fish]

Alrighty then Fishy.
Haven't you taken a step down in the evolutionary chain though?
From Duck to Fish?

 

[7H4_D00D3]

I got to thinking (not safe for the world) we all talk about the hardware screw ups that we're commited but what about the software. As in what software have you ever loaded onto your rig, and it completly screwed it up. Norton anyone?

Biggest software screw up = McAffee

I already told this on my post here, but I will never get tired of saying it

My mom had the pc formatted and well, the guys she paid to do (I could do it for free but nooooooooo "you're not certified".....) installed McAffee, everything was running "fine", everything was up to date and it seemd ok, then, the first mail that comes in is a virus, so McAffee "handles it"...next thing I know, a lot of entries had been added to my register and the pc stars to behave differently, well, I lost the pc in less than 24 hours due to macaffee super hyper antivirus protection....

The only time that norton screwed me was a looooooooong time ago that some virus fakd this thing so hard that I barely could back up some stuff to format, EVERYTHING was damaged, you couldnt execute ANY app cuz it would crash or give an error

My last story is a very bad luck one, my uncle downloaded some satellite images for his work and he then moved them to his external HDD, when he plugs it into his pc it wouldnt recognize it, after a while ...there was no fat....120Gb could have been lost if it wasnt for file scavenger. BTW , he was using kaspersky (up to date at the time 😛)

That's all for now 😛

to ninja: thinking is not unsafe for the world, in fact your awareness comes from thoughts that allow you to perceive reality and process it in order to output a response....in essence, you make your own world by thinking about it, and lots of that psico mumbo jumbo stuff

 

[Flopmouth_Fish]

Biggest software screw up = McAffee

Eeeeww... I hate McAffe. Norton is okay; I'm using it right now, and have never had problems with viruses. I really like AVG, though.

My mom had the pc formatted and well, the guys she paid to do (I could do it for free but nooooooooo "you're not certified".....)

By any chance, were "the guys" the Geek Squad? My dad's like that, too, but I understand his logic. He goes by the "If it ain't broke, don't try to fix it" theory, and I go by the "If it ain't broke, it doesn't have enough features" theory.

 

[dasickninja]

I go by the if it isn't broke, I haven't turned it on yet. Or overclocked it.

 

[Flopmouth_Fish]

I go by the if it isn't broke, I haven't turned it on yet. Or overclocked it.

Is your computer stable?

 

[7H4_D00D3]

Geek Squad?

I think they are the DORK squad....they do not deserve to be called geeks

At least they let me handle format & backups 😛 but since this pc is still on warranty, well, I can't touch it (much)

Oh, and if I forgot to mention it, STAY AWAY FROM McAFFEE

if it isn't broke, I haven't turned it on yet. Or overclocked it.

LMAO!

I go by the if it isn't broke, I haven't turned it on yet. Or overclocked it.

Is your computer stable?

Stable as plasma being contained in a fluctuating magnetic field...

Oh wait, that's MY pc....goddamn via....

 

[dasickninja]

I go by the if it isn't broke, I haven't turned it on yet. Or overclocked it.

Is your computer stable?
Very.

 

[7H4_D00D3]

stock cooling, water cooling or just ninjutsu that you learnt watching naruto?xD

 

[dasickninja]

A combination of TEC, A/C and ninjutsu.
(I actually studied the Shinobi arts for 5 years before returning to Capoeira )

 

[7H4_D00D3]

KAGE COMBO WONDER BANANA FANA BUSHIN NO JUTSU! xD

The closest I've been there is getting pwnd by a friend that practices (and shows off) aikido moves with me (it actually kinda fun), that and that I studied japanese for a couple of weeks before to retunrning to spanish/english

Anyways....I think this is becoming more a chat room than a "worst pc screw ups ever" thread 😛

I'm out (for a while)

Cheers

 

[clue69less]

I think they are the DORK squad....they do not deserve to be called geeks

So you think it's that easy to stereotype techs at hundreds of stores across North America? I've met some useless GS'ers and some very informed GS'ers.

 

[7H4_D00D3]

I think they are the DORK squad....they do not deserve to be called geeks

So you think it's that easy to stereotype techs at hundreds of stores across North America? I've met some useless GS'ers and some very informed GS'ers.
Im not doing such a thing, I refer to the dorks as the people that "fixed" my pc that time, that's all, if you want to think another thing, be my guest, but I'm not responsible of your actions and stuff