What have been some of your biggest fuck ups while doing Jow Forums things

What have been some of your biggest fuck ups while doing Jow Forums things

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wiping my main drive instead of usb drive

Not really a "fuck up" I suppose but some dumb shit. I have this obsessive-compulsive thing where if I see some or hear some specific things I wipe my drive and do a full clean install and reconfigure my OS. I probably used DBAN on my SSD 30+ times before I started using Secure Erase.

This is going to sound like I'm lying but I haven't really had any. I one broke my phone screen but it was a an easy repair that only cost me $20. The first computer I ever used was one of those old PPC iMacs with MacOS 9, and that was in 2001 when I was 8 years old. Ever since then I've been interested in computers. I've been using Linux for close to 9 years, but only switched fully to it as my main OS for the last 5. Not once have I ever broken my systems or deleted something I shouldn't have. I've used mostly Ubuntu and Debian and they just work if you aren't retarded.

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fucked up RAM when taking of heatspreader.
chipped GPU when replacing cooler.

installing linux on a desktop

That photo is from a third party D&D book about traps released in the 80's isn't it?

or vietnam era us military handbook

My first job was tech support in local hospital. Coworker taked vacation and i stayed all alone as a kind of "sysadmin" without any privileges to do anything. As soon as i started, there was huge network malfunction, related to "loop on the switch" (you probably know what it means). I did have no idea what to do so i decided to unplug wires from one router and plug it to another router that was in same closet, because i thought that router is broken (it was actually unpluged). I fucked things more because of that, and there was some system on VM to send data from hospital to another - and it went down because of me. Today i think it was trap, senior sysadmin did switch himself because he wanted to get me fired. Worst is i still mostly dont know what i did wrong, as i know shit all about networking

Wrote a script to move a bunch of files out of subfolders recursively.
It didnt move anything so I thought it was an admin permissions thing.
Ran it as admin but that set the working directory to C:\ inadvertently moving all my system files around and breaking the install.

I do not believe that installing a kernel update has not once fucked your systems.

Fried my CPU by running the computer without a heat sink.

Installed a GPU water block. Left on stock thermal pads instead of using pads that came with water block. Stock pads were too thick and GPU wasn't making contact with water block. Fried the card.

>while doing Jow Forums things
Bought a Gigabyte AX370. Have to cold boot the thing every time in order to get it to acknowledge my sound and other cards. They still haven't fixed this even though they just had a bios release weeks ago.

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I was trying to set up vanilla Hackintosh, it took me 2 days to get it working.

>6th grade
>hey user go to the computer lab and reinstall win95 on that computer
>alright
>next day
>who the fuck deleted all the new year school schedules???

Removed ram from a laptop while it was still powered on.
I was working through checking a whole pile of hundreds of donated business laptops, so after I realised i'd fried the ram and the motherboard I just dumped it in the pile with the ones that had come in broken.

broke mobo of my crushes laptop

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1
>accidently resize linux filesystem
>all data corrupted
>no backups
2
>whenever I cd into a dir I have it autorun "ls" to list the files in the dir I just cd'd into
>be in ~
>be learning vim
>have ~/vim/vim test files
>want to remove them
>ls vim
>thought I cd into vim
>rm -rf *
>pisspants.html
>FUCCKCKKCKCKCKCKC.nigger
>no backups also

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Bent 2 CPU pins on a brand new server 10 minutes after racking it like an absolute retard. After several hours with a sewing needle, a magnifying glass, and a ridiculous looking setup of multiple lamps, I was able to fix it.

I fucking hate LGA. Put the pins on the CPU. If you cock those up it's so much easier to fix, or in the worst case you can just replace the CPU. If you destroy an LGA socket your entire machine is trashed. I place the blame squarely with Intel for making the LGA meme so ubiquitous

Really unfair of them to put you in that situation, don't blame yourself too much user

Yeh nah that's pretty fucked up mate

This. I feel bad for the poor sap that works IT at my company. Almost all of the previous IT quit and most of the security people quit as well thanks to shit government regulations, so now there's almost nobody that actually knows what to do and anyone that gets hired is going to be completely useless for a long time

>Had private key to my ether wallet which had $50k worth of erc20's and eth saved in notes temporarily while i held it in MEW to transfer to another exchange later
>reconfigure some shit using sudo
>fuck up my system somehow
>ohshit.jpg
>need software working by tomorrow so dont have time to figure out what the fuck i did wrong
>reset whole laptop
>forget about private key
>2 days later
>I realise
>fuck.jpg
>FUCK.jgp
>FUCKCCCCKCCKKCKCK.gif
>mfw

why did you do things if you didn't have any privileges to?
do you also try to do the surgeries for the doctors on vacation?

it's mostly bending/breaking/shorting pins and stuff

most recently though, losing all my user data on chrome while trying to fix a stupid constant crashing issue since friday

Yeah, that's what I was thinking too. Or Korea. I remember my grandfather telling me about how they would set up those traps for American soldiers in Korea, but the Koreans would ejaculate on the spikes to supposedly cause further infection. Humans do weird shit to each other.

Fry a multimeter by measuring current of wall sockets

That’s what happens when you use a hobbyist OS for your desktop computer

A classic

thanks, i got hired through family connections, i worked there long enough and earned enough money to purse CS degree despite my incompetence, so i think its fair to blame myself a bit. I just liked programming desu, i guess i was not ready for being everyman that need to know all technical stuff and crutches of networking

Deleted a bunch of shit I thought I'd backed up in a prod CRM instance. Boss had my back though, which was dope.

But the average Intel CPU is more expensive than the average mobo, even moreso with how fast the price ramps up on server CPUs.

fpbp
>Had my vita and an SD card plugged in
>Need to repartition the SD
>Repartition the vita
>Vita had 30+ games
>Fuck.png

formatted the wrong drive for a customer
he laughed it off, did not want recovery
but he used to come often and I have not seen him come for over a year

I was in a hurry and he was constantly talking to me
I still dunno how could I made that mistake
but fucked it feels bad

btw, isnt there some easy way to recovery deleted partition as whole?

I know that in linux when I just cfdisk to delete partition and then go there agai, it tells me that its still there if I want to recover it or something like that

I should probably do some testing

Years ago when I was a wee junior admin, I was handed Atlassian as a project to set up with the directive that "We need to have this deployed two weeks ago."

Without knowing much, I had our DBA create a single database thinking naively that SURELY this respected, well-known software development company had distinct database schemas for each of their products and that SURELY they could safely co-exist in a single database.

A week or two later, the whole house of cards came toppling down on itself and our developers lost all of their project-tracking-related stuff from the time they started using JIRA et al.

I had to have the DBA create separate databases for each Atlassian product we're using and since then, everything is been smooth except for the JVM for JIRA and Fisheye/Crucible running out of memory every so often.

I fucking hate Atlassian.

>loop on the switch
Enable STP next time

i'm really scared by this

>bricked a new to me thinkpad flashing the white-list off the bios
>bricked a cheap smartphone playing with specious roms
>accidentally corrupted a usb drive with important work documents and spent an entire weekend recovering the data
>cheaped out and used a toss PSU in a file server temporarily and it died and took the who NAS with it
>fixed a friend's iPhone and ended up nuking the battey with an accidental discharge
>hung cables for a new ham antenna in my garage and forgot to secure the mast bolt afterward, ended up with a large owl nearly destroying my setup and garage
>retrofitted a slick head unit into my Ford F100 pickup then forgot to properly seal the rear of the case so it died from water damage in one year
>bough some chink batteries for backup on my thinkpad and one of them nearly torched my work bench
>soldered the wrong thing and destroyed a cheap tv I was trying to repair for my neighbor
I swear I break only half as much as I fix.

>white-list off the bios
What kind of jewish shit is that?

>time to root this device and get rid of the carrier bloat
>root successful
>open SU, everything checks out. Dialog box tells me to reboot to install something. A kernel update maybe, I don't remember.
>"reboot later" and continue on to installing file explorers and shit
>read that you can remove some carrier branding by changing a line in build.prop
>do that, make new build prop, delete old build.prop.
>>>delete old build.prop.
>can't move the new build.prop into the appropriate directory because I lack permissions granted by rebooting earlier.
>what do? I know! I'll just reboot now and hopefully it won't be fucked up
>never boots again
>stock firmware isn't available
And that's how I lost my G3

I've done this once too. Pic related.

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I don't have anything too bad. On my first ever build, I bent some of the USB3.0 pins for my case on the mobo because they were in a bad position; they plugged in horizontally with the mobo instead of vertically. It was too close to the back panel and the connector was too bulky so after half an hour of being delicate, I got frustrated and tried to force it in and broke it.

Oddly enough, about a year later, when I took the case off to upgrade a few things, I tried fixing the pins with a screwdriver in what I knew was a futile attempt and didn't think it'd work. Plugged it back in, put a flash drive in the front of my case, and it recognized it instantly.

Pungi spikes and no they pissed and shit on them

Just disable fast boot until it's fixed

That's what happens when you play with fake internet money

Yeah, """professional"""" OS's are so much more reliable!

Back in the day I let the Ubuntu installer do a side-by-side install but I misclicked and let it wipe windows. It wasn't a big deal tho.

Both suck. It should be like IBM does it, where neither the cpu or mobo have pins. They are in a thin plastic layer, sandwiched between them.

pls user. no. i still have a lot left in crypto and its still crashing everyday. it hurts so much

deleting a partition is the easiest thing to recover, since you haven't actually damaged the volume at all
all you need to do is make the partition again with the same offsets (can be found through scanning if need be), and you're done

>Just disable fast boot until it's fixed
That's the kicker: it didn't help.

The network wasn't his job to do except for a couple of days and he didn't even have any privileges anyway. The network admins are responsible for the network setup. If the network isn't you're work field you should never have to be responsible for the network at all and certainly shouldn't make changes because you probably don't even know the procedures and how every change should be documented. The network guys were the once that should have set up stp already and them failing to do so means they were shit network admins anyway.

The only thing did wrong was actually trying to change the setup. Only if he would have identified the loop removing it would have been the acceptable change.

Honestly their IT department sounds really shit and a lot of people in the network team should have been fired for being this incompetent.

t. network admin

moving to linux

Many laptops have a white-list for what kind of wlan-adapters it will accept. So if it dies or you have to replace it for whatever reason and it's not on the whitelist FUCK YOU!!!!!!!!

Accidentally broke reimports for pro customers because our ES backups into our local ceph setup were saturating the 20Gb link on the LB. I had to disable the daily snapshots until Monday and they had to deny our IP ranges at the LB to get the clusters to stop finally.

We really need like quadruple that bandwidth to reliably backup :/ or multiple LBs to round robin between.

Another fun one: one of our largest ES clusters went from 130TB of data across 50 nodes to zero in under a minute because an old master from two months ago joined the quorum, stuck around and was eventually elected master. It promptly said all the data we had currently wasn't valid and instead asked where the data from two months ago was. The data nodes followed suit and deleted all of their data. I got pinged on Slack about it from my colleague who had been woken up by the alert and was like "can you check this? 22k unassigned shards", he was in genuine disbelief.

Looking at the grafana graphs for storage is soul crushing. Literally went from ~130TB across a ton of nodes to literal 0 in less than the time it took for the alert to send.

Perfect coincidence that I happened to take a relatively good backup two days prior with ~1% failed shards. Found some glaring issues with the restore process too.

>friend asks me to help assemble new PC
>I get to his house after he's opened the parts up and started
>See there's standoffs already in, assume they're all in
>Assemble all parts
>power on, it spins up then spins down
>"Uhoh"
>Try a few more times, same thing
>Partly disassemble and check, eventually pull out Mobo
>Turns out he didn't do one row of standoffs, board was contacting case
>There was a odd discoloration, maybe even a scorch mark, under where the Mobo was contacting

Lucky we didn't blow the board, or snap it

mixed up sda and sdb in a dd command and ruined a windows install when i was trying to clone it

>Try to format usb, nuke 4 drives
>Try to recovery tools, all of them cost money
>Goto piratebay
>Search datarecoveryproFree
>Install that shit
>Win iPhoneX has been downloaded
>Lulz
>Install os again

>Next day
>Paypal notification
>50€ iTunes card bought
=)

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dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/sda

forgot to backup

migrated to firefox because chrome kept fucking up on me, then one single process always kept being in a state where it couldn't be terminated so i had to restart my whole pc everytime fucking chromeshit crashed, which it did ever more frequently

fuck google, honestly what the fuck man

did you learn your lesson?

List volume doesn't list the volumes of selected disk and don't save your passwords in chrome.

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No.
The correct answers were:
* always have backups
* testdisk/photorec/ddrescue
* disconnect ALL OTHER DISKS before doing data wipes
* don't give anything you pirate admin privs

Not gonna make the same mistakes again!
Thanks user :)

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I live in constant paranoia and fear that I'm going to accidentally do this.
I'm sorry, user.

Frying motor controllers.

I've been using ddrescue recently and GOD DAMN does this worry me every time. I double-check so often, even with --ask.

is it wise to stay away from or don't run any kind of executable or installation file you would get from a public tracker, or are malware/antivirus scans usually good enough to detect any tampering?

Came here to post this

Be as cautious as you can be, user. This is crime you're dealing with.

Had to make it fit somehow

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you saved you paypal password in your browser?

be me
sent on a course to learn Pick
get bored
write a script to create subdirectories within subdirectories
start it up just before the lunch break
course convener notices the lag, shrugs it off
lunch break
i've filled the hard drive with subdirectory descriptors

Pick does not have a way to recursively remove subdirectories. i had to CD all the way down to the bottom and remove them manually before they got back from lunch. couple of thousand of them.

i did this.
also completely fucked a drive with fdisk by not knowing what i was doing.

you can't fuck a drive with fdisk, it only writes to the partition /table/, not partitions
worst case with it is that you may need to scan for your partitions and manually write them back into the partition table
wiping a partition table is like accidentally an index page in a book, it makes it harder to find shit, but you can pretty easily make a new index

>replacing thermal paste on CPU in my shithole apartment
>only non-carpeted space kitchen and bathroom, obviously go to the kitchen
>gently pull out CPU, place pin-side-up on the ground
>turn around to get thermal paste
>lose balance, stick hand out to stabilize
>plant palm right on CPU, pins go fucky
Sixty niggers. Couldn't manage to get it straight again, either. Was kind of due for an upgrade though, so my retardation wasn't a complete failure.

Used winzip to compress system32 because it was using too much of my 256mb hd

>hanging out with friend
>slam desk while joking around for comedic effect
>computer freezes completely
>try to reboot
>no dice
>an hour of troubleshooting later and I confirm that it's busted
>salvage the working parts and bin the fucker
I was just done with fixing it up due to some other problems too, but whatever it was on death's door anyway. Only had it for 3 years. Thankfully I had my thinkpad to fall back on so I could still do my work.

>site3server4 has crashed, fucking netware
>reboot site4server3
>panic
>reboot site3server3

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>This is going to sound like I'm lying but I haven't really had any.
Why are you posting then? Fucking retard.

Why would a person need to take it off in the first place?

>if I see some or hear some specific things I wipe my drive
you mean the cheese pizza, right?

>tfw you'll never ejaculate on a trap

When I was younger I plugged an Apple monitor into a sound card and melted the port

>$50k
>no backup

>expecting anything involving intelligence from a 3rd world cryptotard

>respected, well-known software development company
>straya

backup you dumb bitch

speaking of which, I'm a dumb cunt
>inb4 let he who has proper backup procedures cast the first stone

>in 2001 when I was 8 years old
Leave.

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now this sounds more professional

dude, he's like 25

not killing myself

Whatare you doing here gramps?

>like IBM does it, where neither the cpu or mobo have pins. They are in a thin plastic layer, sandwiched between them.
how can I find more info about this? a quick googling didn't get me anything useful, and BGA/LGA related articles seem to miss it too

Anime is for manchildren.

Preemptive thank you for the advice
I hope I don't need it but that is good to know

genuinely cackled out loud
you silly bastard

>boomer math

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installed some crap third-party software that did not have an uninstall EXE