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What Was Your Worst Computer Accident?

Posted by timothy on from the you-mean-besides-the-railgun dept.

Anonymous Writer writes "I learned years ago to backup regularly and never keep a drink on the same table as a laptop. I accidentally spilled a drink onto my laptop's keyboard where it drained into the laptop's innards, ruining the motherboard, CD-ROM, and hard drive. Thousands of dollars and all my data disappeared in a flash. Considering that there are even people out there that intentionally damage hardware, I was wondering what kind of disasters Slashdot readers have experienced."

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  1. Worst Accident by Chris+Tucker · · Score: 0, Troll

    Buying a Windows machine instead of a Macintosh?

    (Would this be considered a generic /. post?)

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  2. Re:The Worst. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    I just tried the "rm -rf" thing and I get:
    "Bad command or file name"
    You must have some weird-ass operating system

  3. Re:Mouse Pee by AngusOg · · Score: 0, Troll

    When I want grammar advice from a smartass, I'll beat it out of you.

  4. Re:Worst computer accident? by snake_dad · · Score: 0, Troll

    He disabled Win95, not an OS! ;)

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