BUGS

[Null]

We all know what is a software bug. Anyway, I'm sure you remember few bugs which were very strange/caused damage/make you look like an idiot/and etc. So, please share your experience with me!
The most damaging bug for me was... maybe whe i created a small program to format hard disk and then... Blue screen of death with this msg: PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA
i couldn't run windows in safe mode, last known good configuration didn't worked, even when i tried to reinstall windows i saw blue screen with the same msg!

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The worst bug I've coded was right when I was in my final build of a small 2d adventure game I wrote using SDL/OpenGL. I made one VERY small change to my code and I guess was calling the wrong function, called moveMouse instead of mouseMove (fixed the naming later). Bascially every event, keyboard, mouse, or otherwise, I was capturing and doing something with. Unfortunately I was calling moveMouse so everytime the mouse was moved and an event triggered I was actually forcing movement of the mouse cursor to coordinates x50, y50. So you had no way of moving the mouse. To make matters worse, I was capturing all keystrokes and discarding anything that wasn't related to the game... all this during full screen. Once I launched the game and my wife started to test it... she couldn't get out. In fact... I couldn't figure out a way to get out of the damn thing, since I failed to develop an exit game feature for some odd reason... I was relying on the mouse...so I had to power down the laptop and power on... make the changes and retest lol.... what an idiot...

[chrisname]

Once a moth flew onto one of my circuit boards, thus shorting it out.

[Duthomhas]

I don't have any amazing stories, alas.

This doesn't really count as a bug, but it is one of my favorites:
http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/magic-story.html

[mcleano]

Once a moth flew onto one of my circuit boards, thus shorting it out.

Had to lol at that!