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Whoops.....

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Cleared my CMOS last night after memory timing madness and I just noticed my time and date were wrong (2008 date). Changed it and all my WU's deadlined out and sent the WU's back incomplete thinking the deadline had passed. Drat. 6 WU's lost!!!
 
Oh yeah, I hate it when I do a bonehead move like that. My bonehead move of the week - I joined the Lattice project on a freshly installed Linux 64-bit system. I got "compute errors" on the first two WUs before I realized I had forgotten to install the 32-bit libraries. :eek: I very rarely have WU problems and take pride in how stable my systems are so this was very embarrassing to me even if I am only an embarrassment to myself and no one else cares. :p
 
I'll drink to that. I once forgot I needed a floppy drive to reinstall my RAID drivers. I had everything ready for a reload and then had to drive back to work to get a floppy drive (and diskette). Added about 45 minutes to what should have been a quick and easy install. Bleh!

Anyone else with a "Whoops"?

<grabs a beer and a bowl...of popcorn> ;)
 
accidentally formatting the partition with all my data instead of Windows. In my defence the command-line thought it would be a good idea to rename C:/windows to D:, luckily I was able to recover everything though.
 
not paying attention in the early hours of the morning with little sleep and many console windows open....rebooted a production server instead of the dev box

*cough* damn network issues *cough*
 
About 8yrs ago, accidentally formatted wrong partition on a computer for the drafting dept. Lost about 3 days of work.

Problem diagnosis: hard drive failure :)
 
Heh. Early in my consulting career, I had one, or was it three, too many beers at the pub after work. Got back to the hotel room where my work laptop was on the desk and ended up spilling a bottle of water on it while it was running.

Problem Diagnosis: I got stuck out in a big down pour the day before and my laptop bag got soaked. This is partly true as I did get stuck in a big rain storm that day walking a ton of city blocks in Manhattan. :eek:
 
While we're all posting unbelievable dumba$$ goofs. Check this out :( Way back when I was installing the LinSMP client for the first couple of times (musical OS's, that's me) I almost stuck to the very straightforward F@H home page directions (I should have done better than "almost"), I forgot to expand the F@H client tar.gz (the damn boxen kept sayin' there weren't no folding executable)

Oh yeah, like what brother Tobit said about the 32bit-libs, if I don't pay attention to the Linux distro I'm installing I find myself trying to install the libs when they're already installed (some distros already have the 32 bit libs in the 64 bit version) :rolleyes:

DCing for the CURE
 
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