the award for most clueless pc user ever - my candidate.

[cranioscopical]

In the 60's, I could open by Dad's passenger side VW Beetle with one of those long handled metal combs!

-CleverCat (March 27, 2008, 03:41 AM)

Was that a permanent solution?

[CleverCat]

 

[mediaguycouk]

I nominate myself for this award today.

I managed to plug (accidentally) a switch (network hub) into two different wall sockets and took out a building. You really wouldn't think it was that easy....

[Carol Haynes]

Ooo - I bet you were popular.

Actually I would have thought it would blow the switch if anything ???

[Deozaan]

I nominate myself for this award today.

I managed to plug (accidentally) a switch (network hub) into two different wall sockets and took out a building. You really wouldn't think it was that easy....

-mediaguycouk (April 18, 2008, 04:27 PM)

I didn't even know that was possible! All the outlets I've seen here in the USA are spaced in such a way that it would be very difficult to accidentally plug something in to two sockets.

[mediaguycouk]

Excuse my English, it's only my first language. By sockets I mean network sockets. So I had a 10 port switch and 2 of the network points were plugged into two different network sockets on the wall causing a loop. The loop basically caused a DOS attack on itself and didn't allow any other traffic. It meant that all users couldn't get on any file servers for the building as they were on the same 24 port switch in the switch room.

So 'took out a building' was a buildings network, not the concrete or anything.

[Carol Haynes]

So 'took out a building' was a buildings network, not the concrete or anything.

-mediaguycouk (April 18, 2008, 05:36 PM)

Now that has conjured an image!

[wreckedcarzz]

A dialog could pop up saying "Warning! Are you sure you want to install this virus that will wipe out your computer completely and release a new strain of the black plague which will destroy humanity?" and someone would just click "okay" because they never read those things.

-Deozaan (March 07, 2008, 06:04 PM)

Too bad April fools has passed, but nonetheless, I know some people that are totally oblivious to dialog boxes...

*Wreckedcarzz goes off to create said program*

[Deozaan]

Too bad April fools has passed, but nonetheless, I know some people that are totally oblivious to dialog boxes...

*Wreckedcarzz goes off to create said program*

-wreckedcarzz (April 22, 2008, 12:00 AM)

Mouser already did it with Dr. Windows.

[cranioscopical]

Mouser already did it with Dr. Windows

-Deozaan (April 24, 2008, 02:05 PM)

A little discretion, please!  This is a family site.
KATR isn't due for another nine months.

Spoiler

Kiss And Tell Robot

[Deozaan]

Mouser already did it with Dr. Windows

-Deozaan (April 24, 2008, 02:05 PM)

A little discretion, please!  This is a family site.
KATR isn't due for another nine months.

-cranioscopical (April 24, 2008, 06:41 PM)

I was not expecting what I said to be thought of that way!