• PrettyFlyForAFatGuy@feddit.uk
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    2 months ago

    i used to work in remote tech support. one time i disabled the network adapter on the customers computer that i was remoting into

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      2 months ago

      I work a lot with remote servers. I locked myself out in a similar way once or twice before. I felt like the dumbest person alive every time it happened.

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      2 months ago

      I changed some of my router’s VPN settings from abroad once because it wasn’t performing as expected.

      To apply the setting (through the GUI), I remembered you had to press the stop button and then the start button (there was no restart button in that menu). Guess what happened.

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      2 months ago

      That’s pretty minor.

      I’ve done some terrible things. That’s how you learn (you know what they say, test in prod)

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        2 months ago

        oh i’ve done other fuck ups too…

        e.g. one time i ran

        rm -r /* 
        

        on a server.

        luckily it was a test server, but i did manage to wipe one of the drives shared across the entire testing cluster with that one

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      I was tech support in college. I was handed a hard drive to wipe.

      Connect HDD to laptop, load up DBAN, select drive, kick it off. NBD.

      Oops, I selected the laptops os drive…