When Computers are Worth Dirt (Share your technology-sucks stories here)

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So I'm sure you've been there. You were up all night working on an important research paper and just when you were about to print... your computer crashes. No, not just crashes, experiences a true melt-down. No amount of clicking "save" can save you now, you've lost your entire hard drive. Or has your computer ever contracted a virus so bad nothing would run? Have you ever stared at a kernel-panic screen after believing you've fixed the problem for the millionith time? Personally, I find it funny that the new computers in this house have had more crashes, meltdowns, and breakdowns than the fifteen year old Windows 95 machine my Dad still likes to use. Absolutely no new software runs on it, but it still runs like a dream. I still have my Windows XP that started having restart meltdowns two days out of the box. The hard-drive on this machine has crashed and been replaced twice. My sister's machine has had all sorts of viruses and spyware creep into it, despite a frantic effort on her part to keep up to date with security and run scans every week. Even my Mac has a chronic kernel-panic problem. Don't say you know how to fix that problem, because whatever your solution is, we've tried it already. So how about you? Ever had a bad crash that made you want to swear off computers for the rest of your life?