1)Dad got a new 286, I was thrilled, because I got the 8088 for my room. I would play on the computer bbs and such until one day I deleted the command.com file thinking it was useless.
Mom & Dad were due home in an hour and had called ahead letting me know they needed the computer. Suffice it to say, I got a quick education in dos basics that night.
2)Working on a clients computer, I didn't pay attention as I was plugging in the power for a floppy, plugged it in so that one pin was not connected (I'll let you guess which.) Turned the pc on and the floppy spun up and started to smoke. Never worked again, new drive fixed the problem.
3)Bought a Targus laptop backpack, $80, put it was padded all around, except for the top. Put it on a bench at a restaurant one night when out with friends, it fell and my wifi card went into the motherboard and ripped the pcmcia slot clean off the board. PC worked fine though.
4) Was at a clients once working in their office on the machines, the comptroller was asking me why I what my ESD was and why I was wearing it, told him it was to prevent static electricity from jumping from me to the pc and shocking me or frying it.
I went to demonstrate how to use it but was holding the alligator clip by the metal part, a few inches away from the case this blue arc jumped and my arm went limp for a few seconds and stung like a SOB the rest of the day.
5)Another static story, I crawled under a clients desk to plug in their new HP all-in-one, again, an arc, some pain and the USB header was fried. The all-in-one never worked right either, they took it back to staples and got a new one.
6) I had gotten a special preview release of an MSI KT266 mobo, was so excited to test it out, but I was having problems getting my cd-burner seated. Figuring it was the case I smacked it with the palm of my hand and ripped off a capacitor, the board wouldn't boot. Got a new one soldered on the next day.
A few weeks later I was playing with the over-clocking ability and read in the manual about the bios trip to reset it, reading carefully where it said, DO NOT PUT THE JUMPERS ON 1-2 with the power on. Good advice I thought, inadvertently did it anyway and toasted the RTC in the BIOS.
All that being said, it's amazing I still work in this industry huh?
I run one these types of webhosts. I use the income I generate from it to host sites for myself and friends, which are quite a few, and then some left over for domains and other toys for my pc. It works quite simply, we buy a block from the reseller and sell it to our clients in thier package. When you think our account allows us to resell 10gb/month, and I use maybe 500mb in total (one user uses 400mb) then there's alot of room for unlimited users. I don't offer an unlimited service, but my users get 2 or 3gigs per month for only bout $15cdn/month ($10 americian.) So if they go over (which has only happened once.) I just get a bill from my supplier, $2/gig over. No biggie.
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1)Dad got a new 286, I was thrilled, because I got the 8088 for my room. I would play on the computer bbs and such until one day I deleted the command.com file thinking it was useless.
Mom & Dad were due home in an hour and had called ahead letting me know they needed the computer. Suffice it to say, I got a quick education in dos basics that night.
2)Working on a clients computer, I didn't pay attention as I was plugging in the power for a floppy, plugged it in so that one pin was not connected (I'll let you guess which.) Turned the pc on and the floppy spun up and started to smoke. Never worked again, new drive fixed the problem.
3)Bought a Targus laptop backpack, $80, put it was padded all around, except for the top. Put it on a bench at a restaurant one night when out with friends, it fell and my wifi card went into the motherboard and ripped the pcmcia slot clean off the board. PC worked fine though.
4) Was at a clients once working in their office on the machines, the comptroller was asking me why I what my ESD was and why I was wearing it, told him it was to prevent static electricity from jumping from me to the pc and shocking me or frying it.
I went to demonstrate how to use it but was holding the alligator clip by the metal part, a few inches away from the case this blue arc jumped and my arm went limp for a few seconds and stung like a SOB the rest of the day.
5)Another static story, I crawled under a clients desk to plug in their new HP all-in-one, again, an arc, some pain and the USB header was fried. The all-in-one never worked right either, they took it back to staples and got a new one.
6) I had gotten a special preview release of an MSI KT266 mobo, was so excited to test it out, but I was having problems getting my cd-burner seated. Figuring it was the case I smacked it with the palm of my hand and ripped off a capacitor, the board wouldn't boot. Got a new one soldered on the next day.
A few weeks later I was playing with the over-clocking ability and read in the manual about the bios trip to reset it, reading carefully where it said, DO NOT PUT THE JUMPERS ON 1-2 with the power on. Good advice I thought, inadvertently did it anyway and toasted the RTC in the BIOS.
All that being said, it's amazing I still work in this industry huh?
I run one these types of webhosts. I use the income I generate from it to host sites for myself and friends, which are quite a few, and then some left over for domains and other toys for my pc. It works quite simply, we buy a block from the reseller and sell it to our clients in thier package. When you think our account allows us to resell 10gb/month, and I use maybe 500mb in total (one user uses 400mb) then there's alot of room for unlimited users. I don't offer an unlimited service, but my users get 2 or 3gigs per month for only bout $15cdn/month ($10 americian.) So if they go over (which has only happened once.) I just get a bill from my supplier, $2/gig over. No biggie.