I work a lot with remote servers. I locked myself out in a similar way once or twice before. I felt like the dumbest person alive every time it happened.
I changed some of my router’s VPN settings from abroad once because it wasn’t performing as expected.
To apply the setting (through the GUI), I remembered you had to press the stop button and then the start button (there was no restart button in that menu). Guess what happened.
i used to work in remote tech support. one time i disabled the network adapter on the customers computer that i was remoting into
I was tech support in college. I was handed a hard drive to wipe.
Connect HDD to laptop, load up DBAN, select drive, kick it off. NBD.
Oops, I selected the laptops os drive…
i’ve done something similar with dd before
I once decided to actually use the dread command.
I was nuking the OS, so fuck it.
Forgot to unmount my data first…
I work a lot with remote servers. I locked myself out in a similar way once or twice before. I felt like the dumbest person alive every time it happened.
I changed some of my router’s VPN settings from abroad once because it wasn’t performing as expected.
To apply the setting (through the GUI), I remembered you had to press the stop button and then the start button (there was no restart button in that menu). Guess what happened.
average router GUI