I work a lot with remote servers. I locked myself out in a similar way once or twice before. I felt like the dumbest person alive every time it happened.
I changed some of my router’s VPN settings from abroad once because it wasn’t performing as expected.
To apply the setting (through the GUI), I remembered you had to press the stop button and then the start button (there was no restart button in that menu). Guess what happened.
Forgot to unmount my data first… And that was before I even knew that recovery services existed, so I just chucked it in the trash. Fuck me. If I still had the drive (and an IDE controller,) it would take all of 5 minutes to re-obtain access to my “lost” data. I’m a fucking idiot, but past me was also an utter moron.
i used to work in remote tech support. one time i disabled the network adapter on the customers computer that i was remoting into
I work a lot with remote servers. I locked myself out in a similar way once or twice before. I felt like the dumbest person alive every time it happened.
I changed some of my router’s VPN settings from abroad once because it wasn’t performing as expected.
To apply the setting (through the GUI), I remembered you had to press the stop button and then the start button (there was no restart button in that menu). Guess what happened.
average router GUI
I was tech support in college. I was handed a hard drive to wipe.
Connect HDD to laptop, load up DBAN, select drive, kick it off. NBD.
Oops, I selected the laptops os drive…
i’ve done something similar with dd before
I once decided to actually use the dread command.
I was nuking the OS, so fuck it.
Forgot to unmount my data first… And that was before I even knew that recovery services existed, so I just chucked it in the trash. Fuck me. If I still had the drive (and an IDE controller,) it would take all of 5 minutes to re-obtain access to my “lost” data. I’m a fucking idiot, but past me was also an utter moron.
That’s pretty minor.
I’ve done some terrible things. That’s how you learn (you know what they say, test in prod)
oh i’ve done other fuck ups too…
e.g. one time i ran
rm -r /*on a server.
luckily it was a test server, but i did manage to wipe one of the drives shared across the entire testing cluster with that one