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I was root on a pretty critical production server in my early days of system administration (Yikes). That was a bad start in itself. I was writing a shell script to automate some task and for testing something in that, I awk'd the first column of each row from /etc/shadow to a file.
I was a newbie using mouse, opened that file, selected the entire content to save it on my local notepad, and at that moment the mouse decided to ditch me, the extra sensitive right click got clicked right there on that root terminal and all the words got pasted and executed there.
As a child in the 80s I removed the SID (sound-)chip of my Commodore 64. Connecting headphones and 12 Volts from my Lego train transformer to different pins of the IC did not create the expected sound experience but a silent C64...
Purchased a brand new laptop. While opening the packaging I spilled a whole cup of water right on top of the keyboard. Luckily it was not turned on. I took it all apart and dried everything off. Waited a few days just to make sure all the moisture was no longer present. I was happy the battery was not inserted as well. However, that laptop always had overheating problems. It was one of those Dell Inspiron 5150N (I think?) I still attribute the overheating to the water I spilled on it. To this day I refuse to keep any drinks or food on or near my office desk.
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I'm not sure how to break this to you, mralk3, but it's more likely that your taking the laptop apart did something like disturb the thermal paste between a chip and heatsink or similar than the water itself caused any issues. Personally, I would have just applied paper towels then used a hair dryer because I'm impatient but, if as far as I know, the general advice would have been to buy a huge bag of dried rice and keep the laptop in it for a good few days.
While opening the packaging I spilled a whole cup of water right on top of the keyboard. --snip-- To this day I refuse to keep any drinks or food on or near my office desk.
Purchased a brand new laptop. While opening the packaging I spilled a whole cup of water right on top of the keyboard. Luckily it was not turned on. I took it all apart and dried everything off. Waited a few days just to make sure all the moisture was no longer present. I was happy the battery was not inserted as well. However, that laptop always had overheating problems. It was one of those Dell Inspiron 5150N (I think?) I still attribute the overheating to the water I spilled on it. To this day I refuse to keep any drinks or food on or near my office desk.
Nah, most of those Inspirons have heating problems, wasn't the water.
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