Actually I'm suprised you haven't got an IR transponder attached to your PC that let's you control the DVD player from there. Personally I'd love something like that. Mainly cos the UI on my video is really crap, I've had it for close to ten years now and still when I program it to record something whilst I'm out it only works about 2 times in 3. I'm sure there'd be a market for something like that, or maybe build a network connection in to the device and allow you to remote programme it from a PC.
And we all do dumb things every now and then. I'm always showing the wrong pass when I get into work or get on a bus, happens about twice a week. Back when I was working for a software house ('96 to '98) the head of technical services would do something dumb like shut down the wrong server or put regular OHP acetates through the laser printer about once every couple of weeks. And then at another company I worked for a new UNIX admin on his first day logged into the
payroll server as root and did the following:
/root %cd /
/ %cd tepm
cd: directory does not exist.
/ % rm -r *
I'm told that people still talk about my dive accross the desks to hit CTRL-C before it finished expanding the wildcard.
[1] I usually tell that story when managers try to say they can save money by not having to implement backups "...because we've got a RAID array.".
Kinda puts dumbness in perspective.
[1] Ok so it would probably have fallen over before it completed building the list but I didn't want to take any chances, it being 4 days before the monthly pay run.