What's your scary tech story /g/?
Old bread: >>55443295
>>55470678
>go to some internet forum years ago
>place is fine, no virus or anything
>adblock is on so it's ok, no flash ads or anything
>go there to see some news
>"Russian miners found hell in old Siberian mine"
>lel, let's see
>click the link to read some more
>PC screen shuts off
>damn Intel driver probably crashed again
>couldn't get on again so I had to do a hard reset
>hear a loud GAAHHRRR in my headset
>tactically shit myself
>get PC on again
>go to the website again to see what the fuck is going on
>404 not found
>>55470678
>Windows 7
>PC is turned on
>I'm sitting next to it reading a book
>floppy drive randomly starts working
>>55470740
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>>55470678
>Streaming Chinese cartoons fugging
>FaceB window pops up without any input
>Logged out
>Log in, nothing unusual except for private info harvesting
>Deactivate for a week.
>>55471295
>Windows 7
>PC is turned on
>I'm sitting next to it reading the Sensible Chuckle Magazine
>HDD goes 100% and won't stop 'till I interact with the computer
Why can't windows just fucking idle like a normal OS
Guy with the greasy optiplex 330's here from last thread.
Update: nobody changes their danm filters and they're all greasy again
Kill me please
>repair old desktop around my basement
>starting tactical disassembly
>remove old shitty part
>clean dust and dirt
>replace by newer parts
>get to the cpu
>touch the heatsink
>A THOUSAND SPIDERS OF PURE BLACK COME BLASTING OUT FROM THE INSIDES OF THE HEATSINK FINS
>I LITERALLY JUMP AT THE CEILING LAMP
>they start spreading around my room
>well shit
To this day I still find some of those fuckers running around.
>>55471613
holy shit, that's really terrifying
I installed linux
>/Thread
>>55471639
kek
>>55471613
>A THOUSAND SPIDERS OF PURE BLACK COME BLASTING OUT FROM THE INSIDES OF THE HEATSINK FINS
Time to burn down the house.
>Been "hacking" with kali. I actually had no idea, just tried to run any scripts...
>Running any shit as root by default
>After less than a week i browse my home directory, see a textdocument called "icanberoot"
>Find other weird filed, called .$(randomnumbers), that would execute, when i click it
Freaked out, erased partition and installed noobunto, never again installed kali after this incident..
>>55470678
>ls in home folder
>a file named dead.letter shows up
>wft
Spoopy experience. Turned out that some program created the file when I killed the process.
>>55470678
Not scary, mostly just dumb as hell.
>work for small town computer consultant, basically IT for little restaurants and shit
>Go to install wifi antenna in a business
>Internet isn't working, seems like it's the ISP's fault
>Call ISP, they say it's fine
>Boss calls and bitches at them, they send a tech
>I meet the tech there, she says it's fine, looks irritated
>Equipment still isn't getting Internet
>wtf, follow the wires back
>They're connected to a DSL modem
>Tech is confused, that's not where the modem was supposed to be
>Shows me the actual modem, nothing is plugged into it
>Turns out, these fags upgraded from their DSL line like 2 years ago, but no one actually plugged the equipment into the new modem
>They'd been paying out the ass for a better line for 2 years and never used it
I suppose if these people weren't stupid I wouldn't have a job
>work industrial company
>remote into site
>do monkey level maintenance on a machine (backups, check event log, ect)
>log out
>incident is emailed out about site >1M damages
>computer problem listed as cause
>full blackout since generator emergency shutdown
>2 days later my boss pulls me aside after 2 days of incident meetings
>tells me how he is frustrated that another employee caused all this
>the other employee logged in after me and fucked shit up
Variations of this shit happen every 4 months to me
One time I worked with a bunch of .NET """coders""" who published a TCP/IP server that could handle a whopping 20 requests per second sending small messages over a local network.
When shit hit the fan and clients were having connectivity issues their crunch-time solution was to run 15+ instances of the server with a batch file that ran each on a different port and then use an elaborate flag file system in a read only file share for the users' client machines to know which one to connect to.
The best part is that not only did they not understand multi-threading, but they also didn't understand how to make a Windows service so all of these servers had a windows form on the screen with just a textbox that output server messages which made everything even slower.
I wrote a proper multithreaded service that benchmarked 30000 messages per second on multiple machines hammering it at the same time and then I got laid off so fuck them.
>>55472841
people skills > talent
It is a hard concept for me as well.
