So easy its hard

[Disturbed]

Ever have one of those moments? The one where you make a simple mistake, and spend hours trying to figure it out? I do that all the time, here are some stories.

Dial-up disaster

Well, I recently got dial-up, and I'm someone who doesn't like to look at the manual. So , I place all the wires in the slots on the modem, and what not. I turn on the computer. and none of the lights go on.. So I'm thinking... what the... So, I fiddle with it for about an hour till I confront the manual, sure enough, It didn't say anything about it. So, I call bell, and I begin a conversation with a Technical adviser. We talk for about 30 mins, untill I told him he wasn't much help, and I'll fiddle with it again. I'm looking under my computer desk to see if something was wrong... Sure enough, it wasn't even plugged in. So I plug it in. Sure enough, it works. By now I'm pretty happy... So, I go on, and open up IE. And it doens't work... So I go back and double check all my work and the wires, sure enough everything is fine. So I confront the manual. Nothing. So I call Bell again, we begin a conversation, sure enough the first thing he asks me was "Did you log-on and connect" I blurted out quite loudly "You have to connect?!" Then, hung up the phone. Sure enough I connected and it worked :D After 4 hours :D

Share your stories :D

[erisco]

Nice lol :lol: :rofl:

Mine usually consist of idiotic errors in my code that I beat around at for at least a good hour. Too many times that has happened to give one story :p

[Disturbed]

I also did one when I was uploading Ajem, I was trying to look at the site, and it kept coming up as "Page not found" Turns out I didn't even upload it

[welshsteve]

:lol: I've done some daft things in my time. I spent ages trying to figure out why images weren't showing on a friends website I designed for him. In the end it was my fault as the site was stored on a linux server so was therefore case sensitive. I had to go back through the image files changing them all to lowercase (I'd coded in lowercase only).

Then there was the time I had to apply an image to a PC and got it the wrong way around and ended up applying a blank image to the image hard disk instead.

[Pegasus]

I've lost count of the number of times I've miscoded the punctuation in javascript or CSS, usually forgetting the ;

I think my biggest gaffe, though, was using Canadian spelling for the code. "Colour" just doesn't work in HTML or CSS.

Peg

[Horus_Kol]

you want a simple mistake with big consequences...

take an electrical cable... wire one end into a plug and test without terminating the other end... pop, bang, frazzle...
luckily, I did not make contact with the bare ends, but a piece of nylon had bridged the gap and it was that which popped - then the RCD broke the circuit.

[Disturbed]

I think my biggest gaffe, though, was using Canadian spelling for the code. "Colour" just doesn't work in HTML or CSS

When I first started HTML, I did that all the time (Damn you HTML)

take an electrical cable... wire one end into a plug and test without terminating the other end... pop, bang, frazzle...
luckily, I did not make contact with the bare ends, but a piece of nylon had bridged the gap and it was that which popped - then the RCD broke the circuit.

Or take two ends of a cut cable, with one in the socket, and connect the two... Boy, that wasn't fun

[feonten]

Horus gave me the horrors with his cable story as
electricity has been trying to wipe me out for years.
I was decorating a shop once and a length of bare wire
was hanging down in my way where I wanted to paint.
I wrapped it around the fuse board!
I think I may be dead.
It blew me off the ladder across the room and I had a few
burns but nothing major.

[Disturbed]

I bet that hurt :D :lol:

[feonten]

more scary than hurt.
being dead doesn't hurt much.:cool:

[althalus]

being dead doesn't hurt much.:cool:It's all in what circle you end up in, eh? ;)

[feonten]

could be:eek:

[Horus_Kol]

Horus gave me the horrors with his cable story as
electricity has been trying to wipe me out for years.
I was decorating a shop once and a length of bare wire
was hanging down in my way where I wanted to paint.
I wrapped it around the fuse board!
I think I may be dead.
It blew me off the ladder across the room and I had a few
burns but nothing major.
heh... it wasn't the first time I had a brush with electrics... i worked as a sparky's mate for a bit before I went to Uni... had a nasty belt then as well and, like Feonten, I was on a ladder at the time - not the best place to go all limp and unconscious (if only briefly).

[nox-Hand]

Hah, take that :D

Sorry, that was funny. The worst I remember I did, was when I wanted a new kernel made for my Linux (( actually, I said this here once :| )), and I couldn't get it to compile. I spent hours trying to get the stupid thing to work, untill I found out, that my HDD had overheated, and, thus, one byte had been copied wrong X(. So, I recopy that part, and five minutes later I had the kernel working. :P

Well, I tried my sister, she kept on about how her PC wasn't working, she was sure it was all plugged in and stuff, and I go into the office, flip the walls power switch, turn on the PC, and walked out without a word. That was so funny ;)

nox-Hand

[Giselle]

Implementing my first perl script, which took weeks for me, the instructions were pretty clear after I finally caught on, but all those error messages, just about went crazy and was ready to forget the whole thing until I asked for help from my hoster. :lol: