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So... here's a bone-headed move by yours truly. I hope you laugh as hard as I did.

I was deploying a package via SMS earlier this morning. I had only sent the package out to a small number of machines (as a test) for a particular WinXP Hotfix (KB912919). The test group included everyone in my office, including my boss. Here's where the fun starts...

In a rush to get the package deployed I had forgotten to suppress reboots upon package execution. In short - I forced every machine in my office (only 12 or so machines) to reboot unwillingly, whether or not the user had any unsaved or open programs/files. Oops

Conversation with the boss went something like this:

Me: Hey boss, has your machine rebooted yet?

Boss: Why no, why do you ask?
(Boss turns around just in time to watch his machine reboot)

Me: No reason
(Runs out of room, laughing uncontrollably)


That is all, enjoy!

Nice.... The closest thing I have to that was the day I was "cleaning up" the patch panels in the closet, just unplugging cables, rerouting them and plugging them back in. Could always tell which ports had computer savy folks on them, i'd unplug the cable and 3 seconds later my phone would start to ring. I'd plug it back in and then the phone would stop ringing. One of the department managers came up and knocked on the door and asked "having fun?"

I can remember taking a sever down that "no one used" only to have someone go looking for my boss and the conversation was something like this:

Them: where is kevin?
Me: I dont know, can i help you?
Them: yes, our server just went down
Me: Oh really? *looks at server sitting on table* well, I'll get right on that.
Them ok

I pluged it right back in

another one was me setting up the APS backup monitor on our servers and i could monitor that on my machine as well, that was until i reinstalled stuff and then an error occured. So I closed the error box and went back on my way, and i got a phone call asking if i was virus scanning peoples computers. I said no and walked over to the person that called me. I had forgotten to put that I was the only IP that could see it, so the error got sent to every machine on the subnet.... ummm oops!!!

Back when I was a TA for EVSC 3xx , I wsa helping out in a summer class. there was this one student who needed a bit of help (was teh hot). One day I had figured out how to banner in the unix boxes. Two rows of six stations were facing the instructor for that days ex.

I thought I would be slick and send her the scripts to use for the ex to get the answers. Well, her login was the same login as the other 11 stations. For two hours I was giving the answers away to the whole class and didn't even know it 'till after. Amazingly the whole class finished early and had the corre ct answers so he cut class short.

Every other person came by and said "thanks" or winked or something. I couldn't figure it out untill I walked back behind the monitors and saw the banner window up on all the monitirs.

Man, there are some good ones here!

I have a couple, that I'll just KIS:

One day I was working on a "test" Terminal Server at a local hospital. I wasn't supposed to know the admin password, but I had, um, aquired it as it made my life much easier. I was doing some config changes when I went to log out, but as we all know, Winblows defaults to whatever was done last when hitting LOG OUT, this time it showed "Restart". I realized this just as I hit <enter>. I ran to the phones to catch all the calls while this slow ass Citrix box rebooted

While changing permissions on a prod. Unix mail server, I issued the command:
chown -R <user> .
The idea was to get all files in the present directory and all directories contained in the directory. As with all Unix commands though, with great power comes great stupidity, I mean responsibility. When the command started taking a *little* longer than expected, I realized that . should have been a * The . actually did do the intended, it got all of the files in that directory, but then it went DOWN a directory and hit the main tree... luckly, that wasn't root... it was just ALL OF THE Fing MAILBOXES for 3000 people... So, all mail started going to a central mailbox... VERY quickly, I wrote a script that corrected the permissions and then started sorting the mail that was being stored into the proper directories. I just about shat myself.