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coopsweb asks "What's the most expensive mistake you've ever made? Should I mention a certain employee who caused 4 hours worth of delays in Central London and got his company fined £500k?"

No points for stories about the time you had a few and thought it'd be a good idea to wrap your car around a bollard. Or replies consisting of "my wife".

(, Thu 25 Oct 2007, 11:26)
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Bought new computer processor fan
Switched on computer for a few seconds without clamping new fan and heat-sink down properly.

Instant toasted AMD Athlon. Dead, with a nice scorch mark on the warranty label underneath as a bonus.

A hundred quid, GONE. Just like that.

Okay, not as bad as the eleventy billion pound losses some have described, but THIS WAS MY OWN MONEY. :-(
(, Sun 28 Oct 2007, 19:07, 4 replies)
You...
...should have gotten an Intel anyway.
(, Sun 28 Oct 2007, 20:31, closed)
Oh no!
AMD/Intel wars!
(, Sun 28 Oct 2007, 22:14, closed)
Intel Wins
Every Time
until AMD releases their quad core line
/geek, relurks

(, Sun 28 Oct 2007, 22:26, closed)
I did that too.
And sent it back to Dabs, who sent me a replacement.

Which I promptly torched again. And got it replaced.

By which point I'd worked out what I was doing wrong. Third time lucky.
(, Sun 28 Oct 2007, 22:46, closed)

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