How badly did you ever fuck up?

I once flashed a wrong bios to my asus nforce board. I was lucky that my buddy had the same board and the eeprom was socketed. Hotswapping eeprom's is fun.

I tried to build something with dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/sda in configure script (or makefile, I'm not sure).

Dude, I fuck up? I'm up till 5:00am making that shit is tight by morning. Nobody will ever see my mistakes.

Intense fear/ massive adrenaline/extreme embarrassment.

Thanks for the nostalgia!

>Was cleaning up my girlfriend's mom's computer.
>She's really protective of her shit, but also doesn't understand why her computer gets slow from all the questionable shit she's installing.
>after two hours of scanning and uninstalling toolbars and complimentary bloatware, computer is finally running better
>"hey user can you also get rid of the 'windows copy isnt genuine? I cant get my background to stay"
>remembering I always used kms activator or whatever the fuck
>decide to google it instead of torrenting
>first link looks like an official site
>"thats odd, didnt know they had one"
>from the moment the installer executes, a tidalwave of malware spews forth destroying all of my work
>"is it done yet?"
>"wow uh, yeah i guess it was worse than I thought, theres uh...way more viruses here, we'll have to scan it again"
>we're out of time and have to leave, so I dont have time to undo my mistake
>frequent calls from her afterwards about all sorts of problems
>she ends up buying a new computer

I fucked up

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Typing rm -rf not knowing what it does
I was 10, and so the traumatic Linux experiences began

I named a file I worked on for a considerable amount of time in GameMaker with a single letter filename. Wanted to go back to it some time later, never found it again. I was like 12, I think I actually cried.

Same

This, but it was on a linux command prompt for windows. I was trying to compile something for the first time.
Thankfully the developer had accurately estimated the intelligence of the average windows user and had built in a safeguard.

Since when does an 8 year old want to look for porn, too?

I was expecting this to be a story of you finding kinky porn on your gf's mother's computer. Maybe even using it to blackmail her into sex. Was pretty disappointed.

When I was very little, I put cardboard inside the floppy drive of the family's MS-DOS computer.

My mom told me I had broken the computer and my father beat me.

Now twenty years later, I realize that putting cardboard in a floppy drive doesn't break a computer.
Fuck you mom.

Never used it.
Too little too late for me.

I walked on a cable and I stuck a broken jack in my friend's macbook pro when I was high. The laptop was 3 months old.

I'm sorry that you have shitty parents, senpai

I hate normalfags.
Sorry that you have tech illiterate normalfag parents.

>used to put gingerbread men into my brother's floppy drive
>broke 2 drives over the years
Surprised he didn't beat my ass for being such a little shithead

>Thank you for installing with us

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Should've installed linux on her PC

I seriously worry for our species when humans unironically fall for things like these, then as if that wasn't bad enough, blame things they don't understand (shockwave, online games, CD games) rather than their own behavior. I seriously asked permission to install Shockwave on our home PC but wasn't allowed since my mother claimed it was a virus. Then obviously I grew up and learned she was full of shit, but the games that required it disappeared forever.

god, I know this feeling. my gfs laptop was overheating like hell so I deleted some bloat and took the laptop apart like I always do to clean out any dust (she used it in her bed so it got real filthy real fast). apparently I fucked up and something happened to mobo. damn, this is painful to remember.

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Not cool. Just communicate you piece of shit. You're literally not even sorry about subjecting her to your lies and taking advantage of her tech ignorance.

>first actual job as sysadmin
>hp server stands under desk in the server/storage room
>put coffee on desk next to server
>splash the entire cup into the server
>the server runs ad, file server, the mail server and the company datebase for the cheap sap clone.
>hesdeadjim.jpg
>took the company weeks to recover
>havent had a job since now studing cs

* rm -R over my /home folder once. Deleted almost half of my files.

* rm -R over /usr/lib folder. Everything was still working, just reinstalled every package with files in /usr/lib

* Deleted every installed file of glibc package trying to fix a locale issue. I got panicked because everything stopped working but just I had to chroot over the root directory from a livecd and reinstall glibc.

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How bad was the first one?

It certainly can happen. He was probably curious to see edgy stuff.

>communicate
this is a containment bored for the anti-social crowd.

if this is true, that is fucking hilarious.

as someone who has used Windows for at least 20 years and upgrades to the latest version of Common Sense Premium Edition every year, the """"official"""" kms site almost got me once. I downloaded it but after thinking about it I knew it was fake

rm -r the wrong customer's container. I promptly restored it from our backups. no one was the wiser...

The nigger said he had a girlfriend. I know you're memeing, but what he's sorry about is his ego being hurt, not the failure to help the one he was trying to help.

I executed Lostboy.exe even after numerous posts warning about it being a virus. I even disabled nod32.

Messed up two ext4 partitions once and overwrote my few years old, customized gentoo setup with debian. Thank dog my /home was on a separate partition.

>nigger
>he's sorry about is his ego being hurt
>moralfag

gtfo normie, you contribute nothing, and you sound like a women.

Absolutely disgusting.

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lost about 4tb worth of movies because i didn't backup

get fucked, windows 10 is best windows ever

I was specially hurted about the a folder which contained a lot of family pictures and videos of years, including vacations, holidays, etc, and the half of 10 year old Music folder. I didn't had backup.

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Are you retarded? You have no defence except calling me buzzwords and strawmanning I must be something you dislike. I literally demonstrated you were wrong as well, and saying the word "nigger" doesn't prove normalfaggotry. This is the most desperate grasping at straws I've ever seen, but you've won, good job.

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>No replication
>No backups
It was a disaster waiting to happen.

exactly. user should be promoted for finding such a serious issue with their IT setup

>but you've won

Thank you sweetie

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>mfw haven't fucked up anything in my tech career

who /careful/ here

>converting a db from pgsql to mysql
>this db is critical to our work environment, been planning this for months. smaller company, it gets assigned to me
>created a pg backup, stopped pg, deleted pg service and package
>doing research, found a script that converts a pg backup into a mysqldump file
>ok, source script and run it
>didn't fully understand syntax of script
>script overwrites my pg backup file
>OH FUCK. no other backups that I know of at all
>the output file is a fucking malformed frankenstein of mysql and pg syntax, won't import, and there are no FUCKING KEYS AT ALL
>have to manually tweak, fix, write regex, and all the foreign and unique keys
>takes like 5 hours
>finally it imports and works like a charm
>"yeah, ran into a few hiccups but overall it went smoothly."
>nobody knows we almost lost everything
holy fuck I was thrown into the furnace with shadrach meschach and abednego but an angel saved my fucking life. We should've been fucking toast

You're a liar or a big fuck up is waiting to happen. EVERYONE fucks up in ANY job.

>Was SCCM tech for an Air Force base
>An order to trunk all ports going to databases came down from above
>Tell serveradmins what needs to be done
>Serveradmin decides they are too busy to trunk the ports and assign me to do the job
>I was a Serveradmin previously but never fucking trunked ports before because we have an entire workcenter dedicated to do it.
>Got a guy from our network team to come give me a hand
>He walks me through everything, even shows me a few things about VM that I had no idea about
>We finish up and decide to apply the settings the next day
>His wife has an obesity attack or something next day so he doesn't show up to work the next day
>deadlinesmustbemet.jpg
>Pull his apprentice to take a look at the work we did
>Apprentice says some settings look wrong, and changes a few thing
>Should be good he says
>Apply the settings
>Kills the host server
>No big deal, the VMs were on in a database not on the host
>Can't restore the host because we didn't have the funding for tape drives to use for backups and nowhere had enough space to store the host
>Can't idrac because nobody set it up beforehand
>None of it mattered because nobody knew the admin password to the fucking host anyway
>Several base worcenters are unable to do anything to include base medical and dental
>Decide to rebuild the host from scratch
>Only takes a few hours to restore the host but the VM's wanna be bitchy
>Spend the next 72 hours working nonstop to restore all the databases
>When done I let bosses know everything is up
>They "let" me go home (their words)
>Come in the next day, apprentice already laid all the blame on me
>Guy from network team says I should have called him
>They decide it was all my fault and I get reprimanded for the entire scenario.
>Can't dunk the trunk.
I tried calling the network guy but his phone went straight to voicemail, which was full so I couldn't give him a voicemail. I know I was set up for failure but I still think it was my fault.

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How to spend $10,000 in taxpayer money in 20 seconds:
>reinstalling final amplifier assembly in UPX-27
>"The long screw fits here. I guess that's where it goes.
>NOPE

When I was 8 I deleted all the files on my UT2004 install folder thinking the game only needed the .exe to run. I regretted that so hard.

- I was 5 or something and saw my brother play Mortal Combat on his machine. I took one of his blank CDs, wrote "Mortal Combat" on it and thought that would enable me to install it on my machine. I was fucking retarded, dunno what I was thinking.
- I wanted to install GTA 2 but didn't have enough space. So I just deleted all files (including Windows files) that were not linked to be opened with any application. I thought they were useless.
- Downloaded RPG Maker from the internet in the early 2000s. I had like thousands of viruses, still remember the name. It was called "W32.Pinfi"
- Norton Anti Virus lel

>Make Malware
>Accidentally run it
That was in 2009.

Here's a Recent one:
>Want to move from HDD to SSD
>nvme is faster
>Decide to get PCIe adapter
>BIOS can't see it due to reasons
>Okay I'll just use compact flash to IDE and use my bootable IDE to PCI
>Causes BIOS to hang despite working on USB
>Give up and use a small old flash drive for /boot

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When I first time installed windows xp I used full disk format function.
It took so long so I manually rebooted PC which killed my HDD.
Also a couple of times forgot something to backup and deleted it from disk.

dd to the wrong disk, fucked up my 4TB drive. I had backups but it took a million years to restore and I lost the work of a very productive day.

One time I fucked up when I was converting a debian server to dual boot to windows, I ended up breaking a RAID array and losing about a terabyte of movies and TV series, dozens of programming projects, and a few game servers I had set up.

>WAAAAAAAAH

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>backup
>always, there are two of them
If it's *critical*, make another backup, in a location which won't be immediately affected

There was a time I formated my dad's Camera
I didn't know what format meant.

A total of 10 rupees have been deposited into your account. Good job!

YAMEROOO

Accidentally loaded a project to a live home automation system, wiping all changes and improvements made that day. Whoooooops

I got another

>Was an SCCM tech with the Air Force
>Have this one particular POS SCCM server
>Server was so old that it was legal to have sex with it in every state
>Server comes up and goes down as it pleases
>Request the server be replaced
>No funding because the commander would rather spend all his money on a desk (I'm not even kidding)
>Server decides it wants to take a 4 month long nap
>During the first month of the server being down our commander decides he wants to have a network inspection
>Every machine on base is behind on patches by 4 months
>Commander demands that we get everything up to date in one week, by hand
>Lol no, write a Powershell script to do all the updates for me
>Push it out to every machine and force a restart
>Workstations look good, time for servers
>Use the same Powershell script for the servers
>End up restarting every server in the middle of the day
>Some servers literally forgot their server roles (DNS, Firewall) and have to be reconfigured
>Network went down for 2 days
This one was definitely my fault but I don't feel nearly as bad about it because it wasn't the primary network. It really is amazing how shitty the military has it with their hardware. Instead of updating all of their old equipment the commander would rather buy a $30K desk. (I wish this was an exaggeration)

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So you're saying you don't do anything, or do you not work in tech? Everyone fucks up in tech and frankly it's the best way to learn from something.

>Summer of 99
>4gb hdd was full
>wanted space to install videogames
>deleted system files

>>"wow uh, yeah i guess it was worse than I thought, theres uh...way more viruses here, we'll have to scan it again"
this always works, everytime.

CRINGE

I didn't kill myself.

> First website I ever made, used by an organization of ~40 people to track hours worked
> Fucked up writing the "update" method in one of the controllers
> Somehow this goes undiscovered for a year
> Admin tries editing somebody's hours
> Website overwrites everybody's hours with the one edited submission
> Months of important data lost, backup didn't work

I learned a lot of hard lessons that day about proper software engineering practices. I was a freshman in college though so better to fuck up early.

>Windows 10 is the best windows ever!
Anything times zero is zero.

When I was like 10 I fell for a lie and got backdoored. Guy started talking to me, he was nice and didn't do anything. Told me to be more careful in the future and not download any random executable files.

yeah you don't have to tell me twice now

I corrupted my Super Mario World romhack which I had spent weeks on when I applied the patch to the rom. I had zero backups, and the worst part is that I didn't get to play it even once. I deleted everything related to romhacking and never went back.

is the desk made of fucking diamond encrusted gold bars or some shit? where do you even get a $30K desk?

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military budgets have to be spent or the division loses that extra unspent money on the next cycle. Of course the commander sounds like a egotistical faggot, purposely allocating the budget to stupid stuff, but thats the military for you.

Sad story, user

>I was expecting this to be a story of you finding kinky porn on your gf's mother's computer.
Same here.

I used static huish to remove dust from inside computer case.

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I was installing Ubuntu in a hurry to my dad's computer and clicked a few nexts too fast.
>hmm it's formatting everything, sure you have backups dad?

Thanks to my tech wizardry I got all data back but still that was scary.

Only if your using ltsb

It was a large desk for the meeting room. What drove the cost up so much was the huge ass fucking glass panel that ran across the top. They had to get it custom made because of the size. The best part is that within 6 months the desk was moved elsewhere and a new one was procured from elsewhere.

>2001
>Aunt buys me a cheap "100 pc games" cd in a random shop.
>Play it, well, it is not bad. Some driving games, many crap stuff...
>Suddenly, I start a game called RSP
>It is a Hentai Rock Paper Scissors game!!!
>Oh my pre-teenager erection.
>Life is good.

You can download it here for free, if you're feeling "funny" (abandonware):
abandonware-france.org/ltf_abandon/ltf_jeu.php?id=1325&fic=liens

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I shutdown my computer before "it is now safe to shutdown your computer"

Are you me?

>I want to copy a game on a CD, so I take the shortcut icon and I burn it.

Seriously, I used to be retarded af.

At 3AM one day I saw a bunch of police cars outside my window. I'm talking like 20+, entire street was lined with them.

Then I saw some officers get out their car and start running in the direction of my house. I freaked the fuck out and 3-pass wiped all my data. When I looked out the window again I saw that they were actually going inside my neighbors house, not me. I spent the next following weeks feeling really shitty.

upgraded too early

I can't laugh, cause I know I'd totally have done the same thing...

But at least I have encrypted backups, if I wipe my hard drive you could subpoena the entire world and not recover anything, and my backups will still work

the absense of genetalia is somewhat disturbing.

Every single fockin' time.

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I know. Japanese censorship, I guess... But I used to fap to this like a monkey.

REEEEE FUCK YOU

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Right click
Format C:

Good old win95

wow yeah never trust those "official" looking sites for activators. i tested a Microsoft word activator from one of those sites on my spare laptop and it contained a tun of viruses. Torrents are the best way because they actually have comments and seeds indicate that it is genuine.