[Jaqie Fox]

The first time I ran linux, when I was a total noob at it. I logged in remotely to my dialup ISP which ran BSD on their server. Their setup was very insecure and stupid - which was a good deal of the problem.

I did not realize I was still logged into their machine instead of mine... I decided to have some fun before I reformatted and installed DOS again on my machine so I did a

rm -R *

I watched for a while... then saw it deleting account directories of people I knew in town... I could not stop it in time, as soon as I realized, the SSH session terminated at the other end and I was without an internet connection soon after.

I was still in high school when I did this... this was the days of windows 3.11 and DOS.

Their sysadmin thought the system just had a hardware failure and replaced the entire system... set up prettymuch the same. I never had the heart to tell them it was me...
The admin eventually got fired for incompetence. that was far from the only time the system caused an outage of dialup internet...

[vaempire4wii]

I have dun many mistakes. but the most recent was today only, i was downloading a 100 mb file with idm and when it was half way done my connection got lost due 2 my experiments . i didn't searched for temp files which were created by idm and i formatted my system. forget 2 mention that m on dialup.

[sonu27]

Buying a WinME computer, when WinXP just came out.

This post has been edited by sonu27: 07 January 2007 - 05:48 AM