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Lessons to self

Posted: 2003-12-06 08:09pm
by Faram
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

Posted: 2003-12-06 08:21pm
by Mr Bean
Did you think of trying a very large electro-magnet?

Posted: 2003-12-06 08:25pm
by Faram
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.

Posted: 2003-12-08 03:00am
by TrailerParkJawa
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.

"I dont recognize this odd partition. Hmmmm....I should back everything up before messing with it. Naw...its okay. Its just the head of Sales laptop."