I did something to screw up my CS account recently, but for the life of me I have no idea what it was. I was just re-compiling my pattern recognition assignment, and my machine crashed on me. No big deal, I think, I must have used up the working memory, and I'd saved backups of everything. So I go to log back on: "The home directory for that account does not exist." What the hell, thinks I?
So I figured that the problem might just be on that particular machine, and went to another machine in the lab. The previous machine had a single login screen (type in your username and password, hit enter), but the machine I moved to had two screens (type in your username, hit enter, you go to another screen where you type in your password). So I type in my username, and the machine immediately crashes. ****.
So I go to a different lab -- same deal, the machine crashes as soon as I type in my login. This being 4:30 on the Friday before Memorial Day weekend, the entire CS support staff was gone, and the regular University support staff was clueless ("Your CS account? Those are Unix machines, right? Sorry, can't help you, talk to the CS support staff"). At this point I figured that I'd somehow wiped my account, but hey, that just gave me a decent excuse to go home and get drunk. I sure as hell wasn't going to get any work done, now that I had the Midas Touch...
Forty hours later my account was back to normal, as if nothing had ever happened. I've still got no clue what I did to crash my account. Oh well...
So I figured that the problem might just be on that particular machine, and went to another machine in the lab. The previous machine had a single login screen (type in your username and password, hit enter), but the machine I moved to had two screens (type in your username, hit enter, you go to another screen where you type in your password). So I type in my username, and the machine immediately crashes. ****.
So I go to a different lab -- same deal, the machine crashes as soon as I type in my login. This being 4:30 on the Friday before Memorial Day weekend, the entire CS support staff was gone, and the regular University support staff was clueless ("Your CS account? Those are Unix machines, right? Sorry, can't help you, talk to the CS support staff"). At this point I figured that I'd somehow wiped my account, but hey, that just gave me a decent excuse to go home and get drunk. I sure as hell wasn't going to get any work done, now that I had the Midas Touch...
Forty hours later my account was back to normal, as if nothing had ever happened. I've still got no clue what I did to crash my account. Oh well...
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