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Laptop-shooting Tops Computer Mishaps Poll
News An American who became so frustrated with his laptop that he shot it with a gun before realising there was important data saved on the computer has topped a list of most bizarre computer mishaps. The top ten most bizarre computer mishaps indicate...
[October 13, 2003, 17:05]
Laptop-shooting Tops Computer Mishaps Poll
Talkback A ghekko lizard once climbed into our laser printer. It must have short-circuited something, and in the process destroyed both itself and the laser printer. What's more, as anybody who has ever worked in the tropics will know, dead ghekkos smell...
[October 15, 2003, 11:15]
Laptop-shooting Tops Computer Mishaps Poll
Talkback An airport shuttle van was dropping me off at home after a long business trip. As the driver removed my luggage from the back of the van, I began to move it from the driveway to the lawn. Distracted by a friend, I looked away for a minute.
[October 15, 2003, 8:07]
Laptop-shooting Tops Computer Mishaps Poll
Talkback I have had a customer whos floppy drive failed due to a 2 inch stell washer being jammed in the works. Maybe he though it would reveal some arcane engineering data? Another claimed not to know why his PC had failed but on removing the lid I noticed...
[October 14, 2003, 21:15]
Laptop-shooting Tops Computer Mishaps Poll
Talkback I had a user who brought her laptop in to me after she had a car accident. She stated that she wasn't able to get it started. When I opened the lid, I noticed sand and it smelled of sea water. I asked what happened and she stated that she was...
[October 14, 2003, 14:17]
Laptop-shooting Tops Computer Mishaps Poll
Talkback In the late eighties Psions main mini computer was effectively buzzed to death by an enormous vibrator! This all proved a bit too much for the main development mini computer which suffered the computer equivalent of a cardiac arrest.
[October 14, 2003, 14:12]
Laptop-shooting Tops Computer Mishaps Poll
Talkback My wife came home drunk one night and lied down on the couch next to my new laptop. A few minutes later she complained of feeling a little unwell and promptly vomited all over my laptop. I had to go around to my friends house who is a hardware...
[October 14, 2003, 8:33]
Laptop-shooting Tops Computer Mishaps Poll
Talkback Most clients tell me they simply wish to throw their PCs out the window. House windows in the south of Spain have bars on them though. Laptops would fit nicely. Laptops with sherry spilt on them smell nice.
[November 28, 2003, 15:28]
Top 10 Data Destruction Disasters
News Ontrack Data Recovery unveiled its 2004 list of the 10 strangest and funniest computer mishaps. A week later, his nephew admitted that he used its screen as a punching bag to relieve his frustrations with the slow computer.
[August 22, 2005, 11:45]
News Roundup: Microsoft Source Code Stolen
News Could stolen Microsoft code lead to more security mishaps? While the largest computer company in the world tries to explain this extraordinary lapse in security, experts, pundits and security gurus try to make sense of the mess.
[October 27, 2000, 15:56]
2000 Roundup: Cybercrime Goes Global
News Over the summer, some of the UK's biggest high street names suffered embarassing security mishaps including Barclays, Powergen and even dear old Woolworths. In February, computer hackers demonstrated that even the biggest Internet companies remain...
[December 26, 2000, 6:12]
'Overclockers' Turn PCs Into Hot Rods
News Mishaps of the wallet and body Other mishaps are common. Tom Leufkens remembers, all too well, the day he looked inside his computer and discovered a block of ice growing there. Life isn't simple for "overclockers," a speed-obsessed breed of...
[April 11, 2000, 9:00]
Microsoft Moves To Integrate Windows With BIOS
Talkback The windows OS is so riddled with worms, trojens, and viruses that this move would make it even harder to control mishaps. I'm only a computer engineer. You've got to be kidding! Let's open a new can of worms.
[August 31, 2004, 18:22]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Apart from a couple of minor mishaps ("It doesn't seem as if you've been provisioned.oh, perhaps I should plug in the cable") the whole thing goes sweetly. Shortly afterwards, so does he, leaving me and Goodwins Minor staring in awe at a computer...
[February 23, 2001, 16:21]
NASA Hacker Is No Neo
Talkback Ofcourse happily agreed with by all those who are at least partly to blame for the mishaps in questions. The computer did it" is nowedays greatest excuse to get away with practicely anything and the once-in-a-while time that someone needs to get...
[June 22, 2005, 22:00]
A Hippocratic Oath For Digital Medicine
Leader Such mishaps are regrettable in any class of software. A product must not make a computer harder to use, more unreliable or introduce new security problems. Symantec is not doing well with Norton. Not only does the company regularly attract huge...
[March 31, 2005, 15:10]
Security Calamity Shakes US Banks
News This enormous security breach overshadows most other recent security incidents and will undoubtedly confirm fears over Internet banking security sparked by more minor mishaps. A UK-based computer expert has reported breaching security at some of...
[September 25, 2000, 9:15]
Friday
Blog Luckily, he's in the right place for such fundamental mishaps: a steady stream of new portable toys is always hurtling through the office, and I believe he's already been re-equipped for the price of a 400-word review.
[October 25, 2002, 18:27]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Global warming, nuclear accidents, GM mishaps, cellphone brainburn, ozone depletion, Russian atomic gangsters, antibiotic-immune superbugs, Y2K, dot.com stock market meltdown, air traffic control overload.
[December 19, 1999, 21:52]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
News Global warming, nuclear accidents, GM mishaps, cellphone brainburn, ozone depletion, Russian atomic gangsters, antibiotic-immune superbugs, Y2K, dot.com stock market meltdown, air traffic control overload.
[December 19, 1999, 21:52]
