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khrath
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 Posted: 07/27/05 - 06:39 Post subject: Most asinine thing you ever did with computers?
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One time I set up a beowulf cluster with my server that connected to vmware virtual servers as slaves on my winxp boxes.....and actually made it work.
Just curious if anyone else does stupid computer shit just for the sake of being able to say they did it.
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Mugaaz
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Posted: 07/27/05 - 06:52 Post subject: Re: Most asinine thing you ever did with computers?
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| khrath wrote: | One time I set up a beowulf cluster with my server that connected to vmware virtual servers as slaves on my winxp boxes.....and actually made it work.
Just curious if anyone else does stupid computer shit just for the sake of being able to say they did it. |
I tried to build my first comp. Knew everything, just had never done it before. Turn it on and would not f*****g work. Not even POST. Tried every f*****g thing I could think of, talked to whole bunch of people, nothing would f*****g work. Finally I realized I had forgot to put the motherboard on risers when I had attached it to the case. I fried every piece, so I just returned all for a refund, saying I just didnt want it and had changed my mind, then moved.
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Celestra
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Posted: 07/27/05 - 06:55 Post subject:
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That time I opened AIM to talk to you.
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Tamena
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Posted: 07/27/05 - 07:40 Post subject:
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told my father in law how to get on the innernet [sic]
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Zab
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Posted: 07/27/05 - 08:07 Post subject:
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Was putting my wifes computer together. had all the parts sitting there. thing wouldnt boot up. could not figure it out for hte life of me. then finally it dawned on me, i had forgot to put the processor in.
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motherface
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Posted: 07/27/05 - 08:11 Post subject:
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When I got my first computer, I didn't know how to do anything. Someone told me that to use a floppy disk you had to format it first, so I figured the same thing applied to the hard drive. My mother then had to drive 60 miles back to the computer store to have them reinstall the OS (I think it was DOS 3 or 4 at the time).
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Frax
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Location: Fuck yoiu fucking fuckers
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Posted: 07/27/05 - 08:25 Post subject:
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At the end of a deployment to Ft Benning, we had something like 75 sun sparc stations set up, and we had some tools that would remotely run commands on some or all of the boxes at once. Someone decided it would be a good idea to have evey single one of them play one of the default sound files that came with Sun OS back then.
They ran it, and most, if not all of the commans looped. I think we spent about 20 minutes manually killing all of the processes off while some very irate people scowling at us. It was like 75 car alarms all going off at once.
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Occulis
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Posted: 07/27/05 - 10:58 Post subject:
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If asinine includes "complete waste of time" I would have to say rewriting part of an mp3 player to spit out various statistics into a database. I would then gather currently playing, most played, etc., and sort in descending order of popularity, then grab the top 3. This gave MP3 stats.
Next, I had a script which updated the date and time of a porn file every time I viewed it. I called it "load balancer." Hah. This way I could always view the least recently viewed pics of lesbians kissing. With a constant slurp of l*****n kiss photos from NNTP, I would come home from work and greet the fruits of my dial-up connection: 3000 new dyke photos to beat meat over. From this list, I would categorize them (pretty, ugly, butch, old/young, young/young, old/old) by hand. Once categorized by hand, they were sent to load balancer.
Given those two stats as examples, you can imagine how I sorted incoming email, also. I had a "top 10 most recently written me" list. Also a top 10 list of who had written me the most. My girlfriend and best friend were of course in the top 2. The stats from this represented my 1-degree-of-separation social network, at least the online one, pretty well.
I dumped all 3 of those stats into the sig of every email I sent. It also had a random unix fortune. The script to dump these stats looks like this:
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#!/usr/bin/perl
$fname = "/home/jdunn/.signature";
$fortune = `/usr/games/fortune`;
$sysStats = `/home/jdunn/bin/sys_summary`;
$bookmark = `/home/jdunn/bin/rand_bm_bookmark4u`;
$vm3 = `/home/jdunn/bin/vm-latest.pl`;
$lesboList = `/home/jdunn/bin/latest-carpet-munchers.pl`;
$mp3Stats = `/home/jdunn/bin/myoozak.pl`;
open(HSIG, $fname) or die("no file $fname");
while(<HSIG>) {
s/\$\s*SYS_STATS\s*:\s*\$/$sysStats/;
s/\$\s*FORTUNE\s*:\s*\$/$fortune/;
s/\$\s*BOOKMARK\s*:\s*\$/$bookmark/;
s/\$\s*VM3\s*:\s*\$/$vm3/;
s/\$\s*MP3\s*:\s*\$/$mp3Stats/;
s/\$\s*DYKEZ\s*:\s*\$/$lesboList/;
print "$_";
}
close(HSIG);
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If that's not asinine I dunno what is.
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Aviger
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Posted: 07/27/05 - 11:11 Post subject:
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I play EQ on mine....
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gotissues68
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Posted: 07/27/05 - 11:20 Post subject:
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I was running something like 14 boxes at once in my apartment... people would come in and hear the buzzing and whirring and see the green lights at night and exclaim "jesus christ its like the f*****g brige of the starship enterprise"... I know have only 1 box at home.... 
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Aviger
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Posted: 07/27/05 - 11:24 Post subject:
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| gotissues68 wrote: | | I was running something like 14 boxes at once in my apartment... people would come in and hear the buzzing and whirring and see the green lights at night and exclaim "jesus christ its like the f*****g brige of the starship enterprise"... I know have only 1 box at home.... |
rofl, that's exactly what my friends say..
And then i go "what ? you don't have a 1.2 terabyte fileserver at home? what do you use, DVD's?
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Brael
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Posted: 07/27/05 - 11:30 Post subject:
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| gotissues68 wrote: | | I was running something like 14 boxes at once in my apartment... people would come in and hear the buzzing and whirring and see the green lights at night and exclaim "jesus christ its like the f*****g brige of the starship enterprise"... I know have only 1 box at home.... |
Did you have a captains chair?
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Desflurane
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Posted: 07/27/05 - 11:43 Post subject:
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My most stupid computer move was creating a username and password for Realpoor
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Ishmael
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Posted: 07/27/05 - 12:59 Post subject: Re: Most asinine thing you ever did with computers?
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| Mugaaz wrote: | | khrath wrote: | One time I set up a beowulf cluster with my server that connected to vmware virtual servers as slaves on my winxp boxes.....and actually made it work.
Just curious if anyone else does stupid computer shit just for the sake of being able to say they did it. |
I tried to build my first comp. Knew everything, just had never done it before. Turn it on and would not f*****g work. Not even POST. Tried every f*****g thing I could think of, talked to whole bunch of people, nothing would f*****g work. Finally I realized I had forgot to put the motherboard on risers when I had attached it to the case. I fried every piece, so I just returned all for a refund, saying I just didnt want it and had changed my mind, then moved. |
Hehe, done that.
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Overon
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Posted: 07/27/05 - 13:03 Post subject:
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once I couldn't get my computer to boot up after doing some shit with it .. i forget what .. something with installing the motherboard probably .. I spent forever trying to fix it myself .. finally called abit about it to make sure I wasn't misunderstanding something
it ended up being that I accidentally disconnected the connector to the hard drives while fiddling around in my case
it took me forever to try and find the problem ... finally i was talking with someone at abit and they were like "check the connectors on your hard drive to make sure .. .. . " and i was like "ugh damn it I'm not some idiot over here" ... and then I saw that was the problem and felt really awful
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ATM Banana
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Posted: 07/27/05 - 13:05 Post subject:
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| Desflurane wrote: | | My most stupid computer move was creating a username and password for Realpoor |
for truth
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Ishmael
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Posted: 07/27/05 - 13:07 Post subject:
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| Quote: | All right men, rape the cattle and kill the women
Ummmm.... captain don't you mean...
You have my orders...! |
lol
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Leilu
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Posted: 07/27/05 - 13:23 Post subject: Re: Most asinine thing you ever did with computers?
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| Ishmael wrote: | | Mugaaz wrote: | | khrath wrote: | One time I set up a beowulf cluster with my server that connected to vmware virtual servers as slaves on my winxp boxes.....and actually made it work.
Just curious if anyone else does stupid computer shit just for the sake of being able to say they did it. |
I tried to build my first comp. Knew everything, just had never done it before. Turn it on and would not f*****g work. Not even POST. Tried every f*****g thing I could think of, talked to whole bunch of people, nothing would f*****g work. Finally I realized I had forgot to put the motherboard on risers when I had attached it to the case. I fried every piece, so I just returned all for a refund, saying I just didnt want it and had changed my mind, then moved. |
Hehe, done that. |
Yeah I did that with the first computer I built. Except the motherboard sparked and ignited a small fire when I turned it on. It only melted a little and the fire was small enough for me to just blow out like a match. Surprisingly, I returned it to whoever I bought it from and said it came defected. I specifically remember the guy saying, "Ma'am, it was caught on fire. This is unusable!" And I was all, "YEAH! MY THOUGHTS EXACTLY. So how soon can I expect my new one?" I still can't believe I got away with that one.
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sinrakin
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Posted: 07/27/05 - 13:47 Post subject:
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Never did anything too asinine. Except maybe the time I overclocked my video card and it started overheating, so I used a rubber band to mount an old CPU fan to the card (the chip faced down), except that after two days the heat made the rubber band dry out and break and it dropped the fan onto the motherboard and fried it.
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Ishmael
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Posted: 07/27/05 - 13:56 Post subject:
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| sinrakin wrote: | | Never did anything too asinine. Except maybe the time I overclocked my video card and it started overheating, so I used a rubber band to mount an old CPU fan to the card (the chip faced down), except that after two days the heat made the rubber band dry out and break and it dropped the fan onto the motherboard and fried it. |
That is...ghetto, lol
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Owyyn
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Posted: 07/27/05 - 14:04 Post subject:
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Back in the days of Windows 95 I contracted that trojan BackOrifice. I didn't know what it was at the time... so I just went into the running proccesses menu and looked at what was running.
"msmsgs32.... what is that? Hmm... end task... delete file"
I learned a lot about formatting and installing Windows after that one!
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Bait Masterson
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Posted: 07/27/05 - 14:24 Post subject:
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Went into the RP IRC channel.
oh and once, I was wizard on a mush and I did a search and delete on some users items, hmm I must have used a bad wildcard , I deleted the whole Mush DB.
ROFL about 600 active users and everything they owned and built gone, thank god for backups 
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Bait Masterson
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Posted: 07/27/05 - 14:26 Post subject: Re: Most asinine thing you ever did with computers?
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| Leilu wrote: | | Ishmael wrote: | | Mugaaz wrote: | | khrath wrote: | One time I set up a beowulf cluster with my server that connected to vmware virtual servers as slaves on my winxp boxes.....and actually made it work.
Just curious if anyone else does stupid computer shit just for the sake of being able to say they did it. |
I tried to build my first comp. Knew everything, just had never done it before. Turn it on and would not f*****g work. Not even POST. Tried every f*****g thing I could think of, talked to whole bunch of people, nothing would f*****g work. Finally I realized I had forgot to put the motherboard on risers when I had attached it to the case. I fried every piece, so I just returned all for a refund, saying I just didnt want it and had changed my mind, then moved. |
Hehe, done that. |
Yeah I did that with the first computer I built. Except the motherboard sparked and ignited a small fire when I turned it on. It only melted a little and the fire was small enough for me to just blow out like a match. Surprisingly, I returned it to whoever I bought it from and said it came defected. I specifically remember the guy saying, "Ma'am, it was caught on fire. This is unusable!" And I was all, "YEAH! MY THOUGHTS EXACTLY. So how soon can I expect my new one?" I still can't believe I got away with that one. |
From all accounts you are teh supar hawt and im sure that had something to do with it.
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merdocc
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Posted: 07/27/05 - 15:01 Post subject:
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Beer through the vent hole in the top of my case, that was pretty bad.
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Leilu
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Posted: 07/27/05 - 15:10 Post subject: Re: Most asinine thing you ever did with computers?
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| Bait Masterson wrote: | | From all accounts you are teh supar hawt and im sure that had something to do with it. |
Except it was a mail order company and any interaction I had was over the phone. HAH!
I did include a signed 8x10 glossy with the receipt though.
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IceIsFun
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When "disposing" of my obsolete, virulent PC in high-school a friend and I took turns whacking it with a bat and/or hatchet. We got bored and started in on the monitor (hard to shatter the screen, lol!), which promptly filled my lawn with shards of glass.
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sinrakin
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Posted: 07/27/05 - 15:32 Post subject:
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| IceIsFun wrote: | | When "disposing" of my obsolete, virulent PC in high-school a friend and I took turns whacking it with a bat and/or hatchet. We got bored and started in on the monitor (hard to shatter the screen, lol!), which promptly filled my lawn with shards of glass. |
PC load letter?
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Gethy
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Posted: 07/27/05 - 16:01 Post subject:
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| sinrakin wrote: | | IceIsFun wrote: | | When "disposing" of my obsolete, virulent PC in high-school a friend and I took turns whacking it with a bat and/or hatchet. We got bored and started in on the monitor (hard to shatter the screen, lol!), which promptly filled my lawn with shards of glass. |
PC load letter? |
WHAT THE f**k DOES THAT MEAN?
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lotek
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Posted: 07/27/05 - 17:47 Post subject:
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wrote a program for a basic stamp to act as a watchdog for an isdn t1 router. When everyone started getting isdn and it was a fixed price, everyone got these routers that would nail up the connection, so people would start getting busy signals
To combat it, SWB would drop the connectivity of your line. The basic stamp talked to the router, and triggered a relay resetting it if packets couldnt get through.
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Deiahova
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Posted: 07/27/05 - 18:12 Post subject:
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| Gethy wrote: | | sinrakin wrote: | | IceIsFun wrote: | | When "disposing" of my obsolete, virulent PC in high-school a friend and I took turns whacking it with a bat and/or hatchet. We got bored and started in on the monitor (hard to shatter the screen, lol!), which promptly filled my lawn with shards of glass. |
PC load letter? |
WHAT THE f**k DOES THAT MEAN? |
Why does it say Paper Jam when where is no Paper Jam?!
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