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10 Computer Mishaps

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the i-got-a-few dept.

Ant writes "ZDNet UK posted Ontrack Data Recovery's 2004 list of the 10 strangest and funniest computer mishaps... Some of them are funny!" My best mishap was installing the alpha video driver on an NT 3.51 box thinking that it was just an alpha driver. Of course since this Alpha meant DEC and this was an x86 box, the server barfed pretty hard. Also the time I spilled an 8oz glass of water on my laptop and lost all my email from 1994 to 1999 and my backup was corrupted. That I liked too.

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  1. Facts? by Kimos · · Score: 0, Redundant

    This is nothing but a list of vague semi-technology related stories. They're not particularly funny either. This looks more like a lame email forward than a slashdot story...

  2. Re:My ones by mattcurrie · · Score: 0, Redundant
    It was quite cool to be able to see my muscles moving around as a huge piece of skin flopped open exposing the tendons in my hands.


    Ouch!

  3. Re:Beer + Keyboard by JasonBee · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Towel?? What the hell will that stop? I'm going for the full-on ten-layer saran-wrapping and a layer or barbed wire just to be safe. Screw towels. Oh and by the way...you wouldn't be that "random dude" would you?

  4. Re:Dull dull dull by Reapman · · Score: 0, Redundant

    putting a HD in the freezer in an attempt to get it to work

    Very true, I've gotten about 3 hard drives to go from dead to alive by just putting in the freezer for about 10 minutes, if only long enough to grab the data off of it.

    I thought my friend was crazy when he suggested it, but damn did it work.