Worst thing ever happened to your computer

[callumacrae]

So what's the worst thing that's happened to anyones computer?

Today I woke up to fine a 260gb log file, and couldn't shut it down until 280gb! It was doing about 1gb a minute, I worked out it has a total of 5343656617 errors (wc -l). Still working with the author of the script to work out what caused it XD

~Callum

[vishal]

Whatttttttttt ??????? OMG!!!! sounds strange

[callumacrae]

It was slightly crazy

~Callum

[essellar]

Things that "happened", or things I've done? The "happened" category has involved things like inadvertent catastrophic flight testing of a $7500 laptop, complete with scored disk platters after impact, due to a wet-ice-under-snow situation on a Toronto sidewalk. "Things I've done" involve smoke-emitting serial port experiments, bricking motherboards during BIOS updates, and devoting nine clustered servers to the task of sending mail to a single user for two hours (my autorespond script, his "out of office" messages, twin T3 lines and fail-over at both ends -- OUCH!).

[callumacrae]

OUCH

~Callum

[essellar]

Well, it did teach me the value of testing "impossible" things in a separate testing evironment before releasing to production...

[Livewire]

and devoting nine clustered servers to the task of sending mail to a single user for two hours (my autorespond script, his "out of office" messages, twin T3 lines and fail-over at both ends -- OUCH!).

I'm having the hardest time deciding if that is Epic Win or Epic Fail.

My C# eightball says Epic Win though XD


Worst thing here was a trojan horse somehow getting into a system that -wasn't- being used. Firewall was on, the whole 10 yards. It got in god only knows how - the system was acting as a wifi hub for my house but Mac Address limited, blah blah blah. Still not a clue how it got on there - every system in the house other than that one was clean. It was running the same OS, Firewall, and Antivirus apps as the other 2 systems as well.

No Cd's, no DVD's, no flash drives. Just a pinpoint attack on that system, somehow.

[Gouri]

Once I was checking a Linux live CD inside the Windows using Some emulator kind software. Which reinitialized the HDD.

So Partition Table gone. Once restarted The system won't reboot, The bad thing is It is 1TB full of DATA in that 200GB is my personal Data which is very important.

But somehow I managed to restore the Partition Table which recovered the Primary Partition and then using some tools and rebuilt the Table again and got the full Data back.

At one point I thought entire Data has gone.

[callumacrae]

lucky XD

~Callum

[Gouri]

lucky XD

~Callum

Yeah

I don't want to repeat this, That is why I thought to separate the OS Partitions and purchased a new SSD. It is in transit.