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Faram
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Next time I mess around with secpol.msc remember what I changed and save myself a reinstall.

Succeeded in killing all outside acces to and from my computer...

And no i don't use system restore
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Did you think of trying a very large electro-magnet?

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Mr Bean wrote:Did you think of trying a very large electro-magnet?
Yepp but I could not fit it through the disk drive slot so...

The stupid thing is that I mess with that stuff for a living, should not be making stupid misstakes like that.
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"Either God wants to abolish evil, and cannot; or he can, but does not want to. ... If he wants to, but cannot, he is impotent. If he can, but does not want to, he is wicked. ... If, as they say, God can abolish evil, and God really wants to do it, why is there evil in the world?" -Epicurus


Fear is the mother of all gods.

Nature does all things spontaneously, by herself, without the meddling of the gods. -Lucretius
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Faram wrote:
Mr Bean wrote:Did you think of trying a very large electro-magnet?
Yepp but I could not fit it through the disk drive slot so...

The stupid thing is that I mess with that stuff for a living, should not be making stupid misstakes like that.
You would think so, but I think everyone in an IT environment has done something rather dumb. There are normal mistakes, like bumping into a rack and pulling the plug out of a server. And there are the you should have known better mistakes, like the one I once made.

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