Technology moment that freaked you out when it was nothing
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Gazza
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Re: Technology moment that freaked you out when it was nothi
When I was new to AutoCAD, and did that noob thing where I was on a composed sheet, zoomed in towards a viewport till it was the whole screen, double clicked to activate it, and then tried to zoom out, but was stuck zooming in and out within the viewport, and couldn't zoom out to see the whole sheet.
Didn't know about the PAPERSPACE command, and thought I had mucked up my drawing by 'trapping' myself in the viewport.
I guess only AutoCAD users would get this, it happens lol https://www.google.com/search?btnG=1&pw ... n+viewport
When I was new to AutoCAD, and did that noob thing where I was on a composed sheet, zoomed in towards a viewport till it was the whole screen, double clicked to activate it, and then tried to zoom out, but was stuck zooming in and out within the viewport, and couldn't zoom out to see the whole sheet.
Didn't know about the PAPERSPACE command, and thought I had mucked up my drawing by 'trapping' myself in the viewport.
I guess only AutoCAD users would get this, it happens lol https://www.google.com/search?btnG=1&pw ... n+viewport
Colossus
Giga Poster
Re: Technology moment that freaked you out when it was nothi
When I first got Kinect on my 360, I was trying out the mic function for the first time, whilst trying to iron out the teething problems having a little fun with it I commanded it to open the disk drive, and instead of obeying that command, it decided to take me to some payment screen for a 12 month gold family membership which was about £60, so I promptly turned off the console without saying a word in case it confirmed the payment.
When I first got Kinect on my 360, I was trying out the mic function for the first time, whilst trying to iron out the teething problems having a little fun with it I commanded it to open the disk drive, and instead of obeying that command, it decided to take me to some payment screen for a 12 month gold family membership which was about £60, so I promptly turned off the console without saying a word in case it confirmed the payment.
ATTACKHAMMER
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Re: Technology moment that freaked you out when it was nothi
When I got a laptop screen of death.
When I got a laptop screen of death.
Re: Technology moment that freaked you out when it was nothi
Gazza, I'm probably the only person lolling at you right now - though only because AutoCAD is the only bit of software that has ever remained a complete mystery to me (I support three ACAD LT Users :lol: ).
Just had one of those moments actually. Was formatting a backup drive on our Hastings Server (Hastings is about a 5 hour drive away, so I remote in).
Formatted and it came back to the Disk Management screen and the main data drive was highlighted. Had one of those fantastic feelings, you know where all the blood drains from your head down and gets replaced with an icy chill and all the skin tightens and your scrotum becomes the size of a pea pod (though for some of you that may be engorged
).
There was no way I'd formatted the wrong drive (The drive name was "Hastings - Monday Backup"), but for just those two seconds until the intelligent part of my brain kicked in, all I could see was all the **** hitting the fan :lol:
This is why I usually spend ages before doing anything irrevocable and triple and quadruple check first. This morning I just did it without thinking too much which is why it caused panic
Gazza, I'm probably the only person lolling at you right now - though only because AutoCAD is the only bit of software that has ever remained a complete mystery to me (I support three ACAD LT Users :lol: ).
Just had one of those moments actually. Was formatting a backup drive on our Hastings Server (Hastings is about a 5 hour drive away, so I remote in).
Formatted and it came back to the Disk Management screen and the main data drive was highlighted. Had one of those fantastic feelings, you know where all the blood drains from your head down and gets replaced with an icy chill and all the skin tightens and your scrotum becomes the size of a pea pod (though for some of you that may be engorged
).There was no way I'd formatted the wrong drive (The drive name was "Hastings - Monday Backup"), but for just those two seconds until the intelligent part of my brain kicked in, all I could see was all the **** hitting the fan :lol:
This is why I usually spend ages before doing anything irrevocable and triple and quadruple check first. This morning I just did it without thinking too much which is why it caused panic
bmac
Giga Poster
Re: Technology moment that freaked you out when it was nothi
Gazza I had the same thing happen to me, too. Once it happens for the first time it never happens again.
The first day I got my new phone I somehow managed to lockout the SD Card, still don't know how the hell I managed to do it.
Gazza I had the same thing happen to me, too. Once it happens for the first time it never happens again.
The first day I got my new phone I somehow managed to lockout the SD Card, still don't know how the hell I managed to do it.
Re: Technology moment that freaked you out when it was nothi
Yeah, capacitors (caps we call them in the trade ) can hold a charge for a long time and if you have a short from one, you can get a shock.
Not as bad as old CRT screens, the charges they could hold could be tens of thousands of volts, even when unplugged!!!
Yeah, capacitors (caps we call them in the trade
) can hold a charge for a long time and if you have a short from one, you can get a shock.Not as bad as old CRT screens, the charges they could hold could be tens of thousands of volts, even when unplugged!!!
FaceYourNemesis
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Re: Technology moment that freaked you out when it was nothi
Back in 2004 I installed Slackware Linux, but somehow messed up the bootloader configuration. Obviously neither operating systems would boot and I was convinced I'd deleted my XP partition. A simple LILO reinstall fixed the problem.
Looking back, I was a complete newbie to Linux and probably shouldn't have been messing around with an advanced "distro". At least it put me in at the deep end, though
Back in 2004 I installed Slackware Linux, but somehow messed up the bootloader configuration. Obviously neither operating systems would boot and I was convinced I'd deleted my XP partition. A simple LILO reinstall fixed the problem.
Looking back, I was a complete newbie to Linux and probably shouldn't have been messing around with an advanced "distro". At least it put me in at the deep end, though
Nic
Strata Poster
Re: Technology moment that freaked you out when it was nothi
Me and my Uncle went halves on this dumb terminal thing once just because we were intreagued and wanted to play with it. Within an hour we'd managed to put it into some kind of neverending loop on boot that was impossible to get out of, thus killing it. Oh well, it was only £20.
Me and my Uncle went halves on this dumb terminal thing once just because we were intreagued and wanted to play with it. Within an hour we'd managed to put it into some kind of neverending loop on boot that was impossible to get out of, thus killing it. Oh well, it was only £20.
TarinMaria
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Re: Technology moment that freaked you out when it was nothi
I was with my friend messing around on her Blackberry, and she put on some recording of white noise, and it was really annoying, so I told her to turn it off, and she tried to stop it, and it wouldn't, and then she turned off the phone, and it was still playing, so she took the battery out... And it stopped... :|
I was with my friend messing around on her Blackberry, and she put on some recording of white noise, and it was really annoying, so I told her to turn it off, and she tried to stop it, and it wouldn't, and then she turned off the phone, and it was still playing, so she took the battery out... And it stopped... :|
Re: Technology moment that freaked you out when it was nothi
I was apart of a design studio my senior year at University of Cincinnati, during which we created a simulated 2020 class that utilized an entire wall screen interaction.
Imagine this but spanning a 30 ft. wall.
In order to have it run properly, we needed technical help directly from Cisco, and the ability to tap into UC's servers for proper bandwidth. Our presentation swam perfectly, but during the tear down, the server backup was accidentally disconnected. This was not caught, and that night UC had a huge electrical storm that caused problems with these same servers. When they attempted to boot from a backup, they were not able to access the backups - potentially meaning that three colleges worth of data had been lost. Gratefully, they were able to work around it - but I felt like I had lost a year of my life from worry!
I was apart of a design studio my senior year at University of Cincinnati, during which we created a simulated 2020 class that utilized an entire wall screen interaction.
Imagine this but spanning a 30 ft. wall.
In order to have it run properly, we needed technical help directly from Cisco, and the ability to tap into UC's servers for proper bandwidth. Our presentation swam perfectly, but during the tear down, the server backup was accidentally disconnected. This was not caught, and that night UC had a huge electrical storm that caused problems with these same servers. When they attempted to boot from a backup, they were not able to access the backups - potentially meaning that three colleges worth of data had been lost. Gratefully, they were able to work around it - but I felt like I had lost a year of my life from worry!