mrbogus wrote:
jonarob wrote:
Never done it, but I did once spend two weeks making a presentation only to have my PC delete its entire hard drive when I tried to back the file up to a CD the night before I was due to present it. Had to spend all night recreating it. And re-installing bloody Windows.
With a week to go before my undergrad dissertation was due in, and almost no progress made to date, I decided to spend the afternoon reflashing my BIOS to a beta grade one that promised greater performance in Half-Life. It didn't, and when I flashed back to the production one, it killed the motherboard stone dead. I had to swap the mobo out of my only other running system, a tiny little Shuttle one, into my enormous full tower case and work on that. Somewhere I have pics of the motherboard totally lost in the upper corner of the case.
Then, with hours to go and scrambling to get it printed and bound, I accidentally deleted the entire thing when I slipped with the command prompt, and then watched in horror as the print job in progress then crashed. Thinking a bit quick I snagged the PDF files from out of the printer queue before the system cleaned the print job up, reprinted, and calmly strolled into college nearly half an hour late, only to join the fifty people long queue for submission. I was quite pleased with myself for that.