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[Buzz762]

spent three hours troubleshooting a dead segment of a network before I figured out that I accidentally unplugged one of the cat5 cables on the patch panel Turns out that the cable just pulled back enough to not be a good connection, but looked as if it were still plugged into the spot. I finally noticed, and pushed it in further and it clicked.

You know. I'm surprised I'm not upset about this. I just find it funny that I did something so stupid.



Alright.. Now since this thread is otherwise pointless, share your tech blunders so that we all may learn from your mistakes!

 

[Zepp88]

Retard alert class! /southpark

 

[Kagami]

I hate it when that shit happens

 

[Leon]

d'oh!

providing minor tech support to my friends can sometimes prove to be a major pain in the ass. there's been a few times where they've said, "oh wait, should this be plugged in?"

 

[JJ Rodriguez]

Putting laptops back together that come in for warranty, you almost always end up with screws left over. I just check over the case, make sure all the external screws are in place, shrug and say fuck it

 

[eleven59]

When I replaced the pickup in my Ibanez AX112XL and plugged in for the first time I was getting really low levels out of the guitar and a high pitch squeel from the amp and figured I had screwed up my first soldering job.

Then I remembered my shitty cable and shitty input jack on the amp, wiggled it for a second, and then went like this:

 

[Benzesp]

I killed a $500 server board and a pair of Xeon's.....Uh yea it's good to unplug a server when you are about to swap hardware....Bone head move haha, that shit happens when you have too many things going on at once.

 

[nitelightboy]

At least it wasn't a wireless network.....then that would've been weird

 

[grimmchaos]

Lab and production network boxes with the same names are a no-no. Thought I was in a lab box, ended up being in a production box. Disabling a dynamic routing protocol on a production box is a BIG no-no. Whoops!