PEBCAK and frustrated stupidity still exists -- be warned!

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This note is just to get some frustration off my chest and to remind the
Fedora community that stupidity can reign no matter how smart you might
think you are.

Just did a virgin Fedora 14 reinstall after completely screwing up my
operating system because I thought I had a failing disk drive.  The one
that has all my backups.  Compounding my problems by losing grub and my
WindowsXP partition.

After spending more than a day working on it, and a couple of calls to
my vendor, my solutions got more and more inventive until I managed to
just about blow the whole machine up.

Only then, in my frustration, did I think to take the side panel off my
computer, jiggle the cables to the harddrive, remove the cable and
reattach it.  Fixed everything.  Now I am busy trying to get everything
back to the way I like.

No reply necessary.  Just thought someone else might be in the throws of
some frustrated, non-thinking stupidity and might need a warning to
stop, take a breath, indulge in the sin of your choice and think before
doing any more damage.  Particularly, try to keep screwdrivers out of
your hands at times like these.

I know you might say, I have been there, done that.  Even bought the
T-shirt.  But PEBAK continues exist in the best of families.


-- 
Regards Bill
Fedora 14, Gnome 2.32
Evo.2.32, Emacs 23.2.1

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