Funny (and noobish) things you've accidentally done

[Macha]

When he was about 4 or 5, my little brother was sitting on chair by the computer which I was playing. While I was changing the CD, he was kicking his legs and ended up putting his foot through the open drive.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

A few minutes ago, I was wondering why my drive was grinding so much, if it meant a virus or crappy drive. About 10 seconds ago a popup came up saying the anti-virus was done scanning!!!!

 

[Genocidicbunny]

When he was about 4 or 5, my little brother was sitting on chair by the computer which I was playing. While I was changing the CD, he was kicking his legs and ended up putting his foot through the open drive.

Once, when my sister was younger, she put a DVD into the dvd player when there was already one in there. When it began to grind she hit eject and because the second DVD was on top of the first one and the friction wasnt strong enough to stop it, it was still spinning. it shot out and hit her in the face.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

When I was 8 or 9, I accidentally wiped the hard drive on the old Aptiva IBM by doing something I wasn't supposed to, just to see what would happen. Luckily we had a recovery CD.

Mom was not too happy...

Okay, I remember what happened. I put the recovery disc in and rebooted.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

This one's a classic --

When I was 5, just starting out on the PC, I just thought the Shift key was there just to be there. So whenever I wanted to type a capital letter, I pressed caps lock, then the letter, then caps lock again. Which was awful slow. Until mom showed me the shift key.

Also, according to my mom (I don't know if I believe her), at first, when she first brought home the PC I ran to my room screaming.

 

[lndm]

When I was 5, just starting out on the PC, I just thought the Shift key was there just to be there.

You need to use a manual typewriter to appreciate why it's called that

Also, according to my mom (I don't know if I believe her), at first, when she first brought home the PC I ran to my room screaming.

I've seen enough kids do that kind of thing. Apart from the distress, it's kinda cute. Especially when they come back in and get to know the "offending" item.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shift_key

The shift key's name originated from the typewriter, where one had to press and hold the button to shift up the case stamp to change to capital letters.

 

[SS-18 ICBM]

Our desktop computer didn't have an extra 20 GB (yes, it's old) of hard drive space for two years because it turns out the 20 GB weren't allocated yet.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

So I accidentally extracted a zip archive onto my desktop. And then when I was trying to drag and drop them into the recycle bin, I missed by half an inch and for some reason they all made duplicates of themselves:

Spoiler :

 

[Genocidicbunny]

Tried hitting ctrl-z?

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

Didn't think of that.

 

[Gooblah]

That's pretty fun. I discovered that hitting Ctrl-A on the desktop, then right-clicking and selecting Copy Shortcut (and repeating this procedure) would create thousands of copies of the same core items. Normally, you can undo this by hitting Ctrl-A again, then holding down Ctrl only and clicking on the originals, then hitting delete.

Imagine my surprise when I accidentally hit ctrl-A then shifted the original items out of view! Panic ensued until one of my partners looked over, rolled his eyes, and told me to keep deleting items until the original appeared. (When I FINALLY deleted everything and emptied the recycle bin, it took about two minutes)

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

LOL.

I've been working with a lot of DVDs lately (ripping with DVD Decrypter, encoding to AVI, then editing the AVI to get the part I want) and those VOB files can get huge. So I put them in the recycle bin and then I noticed that the HDD space was getting lower.

'cos I forgot to empty the recycle bin. I got back like 80 gigs of space (I had 80 VOBs in there, each was about 0.99 GB)

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

Was trying to fix a video's aspect ratio. Didn't turn out quite right, I got something like 32:9.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

Just accidentally installed three copies of Vista on the same computer. I don't know how I managed that but it showed three copies in the boot switch thing.

 

[Narnia]

In my C++ class, I wrote a program. I debugged it and everything worked fine. I was about to submit it but had the bright idea of testing it. It didn't run. I checked the code, compiled it again, debugged it again, and basicly did everything I could think of to get it to work. Nothing helped. The problem would only show up when I ran the exe file. After a week I found the problem: The exe file refered to a xml file. I had the folder with the assignment, inside of that was a folder and the exe file. Inside of the folder was everything else (cpp files, xml file, etc). The reason it would work in the debugger was the xml file was in that folder but I failed to realize that I would also need to have the xml file in the same folder as the exe file for it to work.
I once took a Digital Photography and Graphics class. It should have been called "introduction to Gimp". I spent 5 hours on an assignment. I finished it and Gimp crashed. I thus lost all of my work. I then spent almost a full hour looking for the backup before realizing that unlike MS Word, Gimp does not autosave.
I just tried to open a file on my computer because it contained information on a really stupid mistake I recently made on my computer. I actentally opened the wrong file (didn't see the lnk file ending), and somehow messed up a bunch of settings. My computer now believes that it is supposed to open all lnk files on my computer with Notepad.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

That reminds me of the time I spent over an hour trying to figure out why an XHTML file wouldn't validate. I forgot a semicolon.

 

[Genocidicbunny]

And this is why we use syntax checking!

I just tried to open a file on my computer because it contained information on a really stupid mistake I recently made on my computer. I actentally opened the wrong file (didn't see the lnk file ending), and somehow messed up a bunch of settings. My computer now believes that it is supposed to open all lnk files on my computer with Notepad.

Right click file, open with, select the right program, check the "always" checkbox. Bam, all good.

 

[Narnia]

And this is why we use syntax checking!



Right click file, open with, select the right program, check the "always" checkbox. Bam, all good.

Lnk files don't display on windows 7. The only difference between the two files I was trying to open was one had a lnk ending and the other did not. Because the lnk ending didn't show up and I didn't notice the other file in the search results, I had no way of knowing that this was the wrong file.
I realized later that the mistake I made was clicking the always open with notepad option.

 

[Samez]

I once burned an image file (as file) on an empty dvd... And wondered why it was not usable as bootdisc....