anyone made a massive mistake on a contract?

[seyre1972]

For the non techies

Care to rephrase in English for those of us who don't speak Unix?

Sure - I'll try and put it in simplistic terms ....

It was royally tulliped.

[lukemg]

2 spring to mind -
In an early job as support monkey, turned a bit quick with a new 26" CRT monitor on a trolley. The monitor carried straight on and smashed....
In the old days, server room at client co had a monitor and k/b for each server on the bench above. However, monitors tended to be a bit wider than the server they serviced which I found out to my cost when turning off a backup server only to see the next monitor to the left go off instead of the one I was looking at.
It was the main email server with 2000 people working on it.....