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    Lost User
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    ...by downloading the ROOT bios to the BOOT bios. :doh: Always slightly amusing when I cost the company more in a day than I've earnt them. What's the most you have cost a company in a day?

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      ...by downloading the ROOT bios to the BOOT bios. :doh: Always slightly amusing when I cost the company more in a day than I've earnt them. What's the most you have cost a company in a day?

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      P0mpey3 wrote:

      Always slightly amusing when I cost the company more in a day than I've earnt them.

      The only way I earn something for a business is when I buy what they're selling.

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        ...by downloading the ROOT bios to the BOOT bios. :doh: Always slightly amusing when I cost the company more in a day than I've earnt them. What's the most you have cost a company in a day?

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        In a day, certainly somewhere in the hundreds of thousands and probably into $USD1M+

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          In a day, certainly somewhere in the hundreds of thousands and probably into $USD1M+

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          Bert Mitton
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          Woah ! That's a chunk of change to toss down the drain !

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            ...by downloading the ROOT bios to the BOOT bios. :doh: Always slightly amusing when I cost the company more in a day than I've earnt them. What's the most you have cost a company in a day?

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            Bassam Abdul Baki
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            For my first company many moons ago, I installed BlackIce on their website on a Friday with the default settings. The site was down for the weekend. Not much money was generated from our website, but still. :D

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              Woah ! That's a chunk of change to toss down the drain !

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              Dan Neely
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              More like a chunk of change that didn't come up the pipes: Dave's job is to keep a money fountain working. When you're dealing with billion dollar capital investments, and dozens of workers for operation downtime gets horribly expensive really fast.

              Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason? Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful? --Zachris Topelius Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies. -- Sarah Hoyt

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                Woah ! That's a chunk of change to toss down the drain !

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                DaveAuld
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                That's peanuts compared to some of the guys 'mistakes'. Everything from wiping out multi-million dollar compressors and gas turbines to shutting down 40% of the UK's oil and gas output. The latter obviously made a few people upset.

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                • B Bassam Abdul Baki

                  For my first company many moons ago, I installed BlackIce on their website on a Friday with the default settings. The site was down for the weekend. Not much money was generated from our website, but still. :D

                  Web - BM - RSS - Math - LinkedIn

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                  Lost User
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                  Yeah we suffer from 'Friday improvements' too. Also people here like to install major changes just before they go on a two week holiday - leaving the rest of us to mop up.

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                    ...by downloading the ROOT bios to the BOOT bios. :doh: Always slightly amusing when I cost the company more in a day than I've earnt them. What's the most you have cost a company in a day?

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                    Corporal Agarn
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                    Only have managed to destroy a couple of thousand(USD) in a day. I use to work in destructive testing and I miss judged the failure location. Thus losing instrumentation. I now can cause endless grief as a DBA but usually I do not cost the company (too much) money.

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                      That's peanuts compared to some of the guys 'mistakes'. Everything from wiping out multi-million dollar compressors and gas turbines to shutting down 40% of the UK's oil and gas output. The latter obviously made a few people upset.

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                      Bert Mitton
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                      Well, as long as you don't drop the internet. That would be catastrophic. :laugh:

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                        Yeah we suffer from 'Friday improvements' too. Also people here like to install major changes just before they go on a two week holiday - leaving the rest of us to mop up.

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                        Bassam Abdul Baki
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                        Learned my lesson. :)

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                        • B Bassam Abdul Baki

                          For my first company many moons ago, I installed BlackIce on their website on a Friday with the default settings. The site was down for the weekend. Not much money was generated from our website, but still. :D

                          Web - BM - RSS - Math - LinkedIn

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                          Bassam Abdul-Baki wrote:

                          BlackIce

                          :doh: I read that as BlackLace and instantly had visions of you lot dancing round the office singing Agadoo[^] :doh:

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                            That's peanuts compared to some of the guys 'mistakes'. Everything from wiping out multi-million dollar compressors and gas turbines to shutting down 40% of the UK's oil and gas output. The latter obviously made a few people upset.

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                            Jorgen Andersson
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                            How's employment safety looking like?

                            Wrong is evil and must be defeated. - Jeff Ello

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                              Bassam Abdul-Baki wrote:

                              BlackIce

                              :doh: I read that as BlackLace and instantly had visions of you lot dancing round the office singing Agadoo[^] :doh:

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                              Brady Kelly
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                              Push pineapple... :laugh: :~:~

                              No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly. - Oscar Wilde

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                                How's employment safety looking like?

                                Wrong is evil and must be defeated. - Jeff Ello

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                                DaveAuld
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                                From what perspective....people hurting themselves or people's job security? On the hurting themselves, things are very good, safety is a priority over everything else. On the jobs, well that is up for debate, there is a skills shortage, but that doesn't remove the risk of an indiustry downturn and investment cuts result in projects pulled and units shutdown due to costs. Over the next 20 years, decommissioning is going to be the growth arena I feel (in the NS at least).

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                                  Push pineapple... :laugh: :~:~

                                  No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly. - Oscar Wilde

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                                  You are going to be singing that all night now.

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                                    From what perspective....people hurting themselves or people's job security? On the hurting themselves, things are very good, safety is a priority over everything else. On the jobs, well that is up for debate, there is a skills shortage, but that doesn't remove the risk of an indiustry downturn and investment cuts result in projects pulled and units shutdown due to costs. Over the next 20 years, decommissioning is going to be the growth arena I feel (in the NS at least).

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                                    Jorgen Andersson
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                                    I was thinking of job security in the perspective that a mistake can make a lot of people freeze in the winter.

                                    Wrong is evil and must be defeated. - Jeff Ello

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                                      You are going to be singing that all night now.

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                                      Brady Kelly
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                                      I am going to bed very early tonight and am so not singing that all night.

                                      No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly. - Oscar Wilde

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                                        ...by downloading the ROOT bios to the BOOT bios. :doh: Always slightly amusing when I cost the company more in a day than I've earnt them. What's the most you have cost a company in a day?

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                                        I destroyed one of only three existing protoypes of a new model of printer, by plugging the mains connector in one pin out, and putting 240VAC onto it's earth line. While building it, the day it and both it's pals were due to be driven out to a 10 day trade show in Germany by the company owner... Direct costs: Print head £1000. Dead as a dodo. PCB: around £4000 as there were only three in existance (and one of them was rather flaky since it was the first build and had the most changes). All SMT, all built by hand, including a 0.4mm lead pitch 304 pin QFP processor of which 4 had been specially flown over from Japan for the build... Very, very dead. Over 50% of the tracks vaporised... Indirect costs: Unknown. Only two machines on a stand designed for three? Oops. :-O In my defence, I immediately changed the company standard PCB mains connector so it couldn't happen again, and I had been working every hour there was for 5 months to get the hardware and software from "fag-packet" sketch to hardware.

                                        Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...

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                                          ...by downloading the ROOT bios to the BOOT bios. :doh: Always slightly amusing when I cost the company more in a day than I've earnt them. What's the most you have cost a company in a day?

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                                          CPallini
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                                          I've bricked some SBCs (not is the same day, though).

                                          THESE PEOPLE REALLY BOTHER ME!! How can they know what you should do without knowing what you want done?!?! -- C++ FQA Lite

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