The Most Stupid Mistake

Most stupid mistake done with, on or too youre favorite personal computing device ! Let's laught at our selves for a bit. Or just at me, that's also ok.

Who will be the bravest ?

Electric coolaid for everyone, except me, never touch the stuff !

I own a P4 1.6 and put it on a Intel D845WNL motherboard.

<font color=red><i>Happy Canuck</i>!</font color=red> ' '

This is not computer related, but what the heck.
My mistake is that I got up from bed today, I have a bad feeling about this day...
Something bad will happen to me, I can feel it somehow.


*** SWEDEN ***

Neerly forgot, most important piece of advise:
When you need to go oui, oui, in a public area, wait till someone else goes and follow closely to the inside. Yes, yes
you will get strange looks, but at least that way, THEY will not get to you.

Best of luck for today, and if we never hear from you again then you will just be one more statistic of misissing persons ! Too bad.

Danny

Electric coolaid for everyone, except me, never touch the stuff !

Err - I installed linuk redhat on my Pentium 75. This was a mistake in many ways.
a)I hadn't a clue how to use it
b)I didn't know any commands in the "dos bit"
c)Them eyes that follow you in the GUI freaked me out
d)WTF is the gimp thing?

And the best of all.

e)I forgot my logon.

It wouldn't let me reformat - I didn't know the command. Windows wouldn't install over it. "Operating sytstem already detected on the computer" - arrggghhh bastard.

Sold the hdd in the end and got a new one.

<font color=purple><b>Techie2001</font color=purple></b>
<i>(Forum Techie)</i>

You only have to tell us once.

BTW, are you going to register a new nick on Jan 1st?

<font color=orange>Quarter</font color=orange> <font color=blue>Pounder</font color=blue> <font color=orange>Inside</font color=orange>

Why would he want to do that?

<b>Bees are on the what now?</b>

true. Wouldn't want that. He might change it to trannie2002

<font color=purple><b>Techie2001</font color=purple></b>
<i>(Forum Techie)</i>

Dread to think what he'ed do with yours.

<font color=purple><b>Techie2001</font color=purple></b>
<i>(Forum Techie)</i>
If it ain't broke, Don't fix it.

This isn't my most stpuid mistake, but it's recent. Saturday, installing a new PSU. Push the power button, nothing happens. I start to think I got a bad PSU, then I think maybe it's the motherboard connector. Opened the computer up, pushed it all the way in (just sticking out a tiny bit), and it worked perfectly.

Yeah, not a horrible mistake, but I haven't made any interesting mistakes.

<font color=orange>Quarter</font color=orange> <font color=blue>Pounder</font color=blue> <font color=orange>Inside</font color=orange>

O, do tell! Here's my chem mishap (actually, my friend's- I just saw something going as fast as a bullet fly across teh room, and a huge ball of flame that wouldn't go away).
Ok, experiment was using fire and pure oxygen (compressed). It was in a test tube, with a stopper, but u were supposed to have this lining so if necessary, gas woudl escape. My friend didn't have it, so the top suddenly flies off at an amazing speed, while the oxygen ctaches on fire, and burned of his eyebrows, despite safety goggles. The lab was then cancelled.

NOS and a <font color=red> Ferrari </font color=red> can be fun!

Our Lab Tutor (he was mad and always wore a white coat) Was mixing two chemicals behind one of those temporary plastic saftey screens. The two chemicals were supposed to generate some heat, make a small explosion and combine themselves (he was demonstrating endo and exo chemical reactions) Anywayz He got something wrong and boom. Next thing we knew - no window next to him, Not much saftey screen left and one sore teacher.

Other mishaps.

1)Ever tried melting the insulation on wires. - Don't. Thick white acrid smoke with an asthmatic sat next to me.

2)Don't try linking power packs up in serial - well not more than four anyway.

3)When cutting through paper with hotwires make sure you don't set fire to the paper. After setting fire to the paper ensure the guy sat next to you isn't a nervous wreck who will start jumping round his seat like somehting demented while trying to smack the paper. Also ensure the burning paper dosn't land on the gas taps at the back of the desk.

4)Don't light the gas taps. (seriously that was an accident)

5)When testing boiling liquids over a bunsen burner with lithium paper. Be careful not to knock the solution flying all over your mate.

6)Don't trail wire round your desk and then plug into power adapter. If you decide to do this - ensure you don't bend the wire to spell your initials. (wow did I get bolloxed 4 that one)

Thats chem class for today folks.

<font color=purple><b>Techie2001</font color=purple></b>
<i>(Forum Techie)</i>
If it ain't broke, Don't fix it.

No but we disected a heart.

<font color=purple><b>Techie2001</font color=purple></b>
<i>(Forum Techie)</i>
If it ain't broke, Don't fix it.

You know how medical students studie the practise of surgery and learnd the different parts of the internal anatomie ?
That's right, they dissect human corpses.
When i was youger, in college, a university medical student got me in her dissection lab so i saw this myself.
A bunch of corpses all over the room , covered of couse, waiting for diverse parts being cut open.
For what i saw it was only a lab on arm muscle tissue, not too bad.
This people are, or were, ok because they must certinly have donated their bodies to science for this precise purpose.
Anyone of you ready to give up your bodies. :-)
Actually can't see a mistake in what i did ?

Danny

Electric coolaid for everyone, except me, never touch the stuff !

2 nd time trying to post this, always timed out !

Anyway, this happened to me:

I was 15 and my cousin 19 (close to 30 years ago).
We decided on going for a 18 day wilderness boat trip 300-400 km north of Montreal, Canada. A large reservoir called "Gouin". We had a small 14 aluminium cartop boat and a 6 hp motor, tent and gear.
We had a wonderfull time, even went into a remote indian reserve. We explored and fished an area of close to 200 km (100 each way). Up that far north, 30 years ago, it was remote. Probably still is.
Well it was the last large stretch of water that gave us some surprise on the last day. We started to negociate the open water (20km long by several wide), when i noticed the wind and waves were quit severe. I was at the motor. To get back that day we had to ride the lenght of that open stretch.
At first it was ok, 3' to 4' waves, no breaking creasts. However it only took a few seconds to realise that things were getting worst and fast. 5' and 6' waves with breaking creasts and strong wind. Water was entering the small boat from the wave side. It looked very bad. As i said, a very remote area, had'nt seen anybody for days. It was early september. The water was starting to cool off. We had NO lifejackets. We were 15 & 19. We were indestructible, right!
Not much choice in moves. To my right side the waves were crashing on a rocky shore and that was the close shore. Strait ahead was asking to go under for sure. So the last choice was left, cross that windy stretch of reservoir to the other side. I steared at an angle to get the least water in the boat and went for it. It was bad enough that my cousin untied his hunting boots and was ready to go under. I held the throdle for dear life, just hoping to get to the other side before the water sent us to the bottom. I do not beleive to this day, that with all the metal tent pots and gear that we had that the boat would have stayed afloat.
Well we of course, did get to the other side. Sandy beach, protected from the wind and waves. After stombling out of the boat, i went to my knees and vomitted out of pure nervousness. It took hours before the wind died down and also for us to mount up some courage to finish the trip .
We went back to that wilderness 4 more times. Only now we added lifejackets and experience to our trips.
True story.

Danny


Electric coolaid for everyone, except me, never touch the stuff !

Don't forget the indians.

<font color=purple><b>Techie2001</font color=purple></b>
<i>(Forum Techie)</i>
If it aint broke,Dont fix it.

i has rebooted the colleague pc when i was in remote login (Unix) from my pc & he has lost everything he doing without he understood something.

ouch, he worked on the salaries !!!!


EasyInfo
I would like to Invest for my PC !!
ok, buy nothing.

I don't get that. It's always red when it should be white?

What if your life moved.....2 inches to the left?

Le plus drôle dans cette histoire, c'est que je n'avais rien bu !

Votre français est tout à fait correct.
Lisez-vous des livres en français ?



EasyInfo
I would like to Invest for my PC !!
ok, buy nothing.

ok for a third round...

but where is the battle ?


EasyInfo
I would like to Invest for my PC !!
ok, buy nothing.