Comment On Classic WTF: The Pie T Department

That picture is making me hungry.

I know it's a rough economy, but replacing ovens with servers is just too much.

Next thing you know, the heating element in the coffee pots will be replaced by CPUs.

Before we had aircon in the server room* it was hot enough to warm pies in there. If only I'd thought of it at the time.

* we work in a converted church - it was a challenge to install even after we'd got planning permission.

As easy as pie.

when the only tool you have is a server...

As part of the Classic WTF re-post, it really could be reviewed for spelling/grammar.

pitchingchris:

when the only tool you have is a server...

every problem looks like a database?

J:

I know it's a rough economy, but replacing ovens with servers is just too much.

Next thing you know, the heating element in the coffee pots will be replaced by CPUs.

Hey, they're already selling those. I bought an intel 16 core i9 coffee maker just last week. Unfortunately i don't drink coffee, but it look cool

J:

I know it's a rough economy, but replacing ovens with servers is just too much.

Next thing you know, the heating element in the coffee pots will be replaced by CPUs.

I am surprised that is not yet available on ThinkGeek. I want one! You can keep that stupid USB mug warmer.

Knux2:

pitchingchris:

when the only tool you have is a server...

every problem looks like a database?

Every problem looks like a pie?

Actually that happens to me, and I've got more tools than just servers.

SR:

Knux2:

pitchingchris:

when the only tool you have is a server...

every problem looks like a database?

Every problem looks like a pie?

Actually that happens to me, and I've got more tools than just servers.

Hey, calling your colleagues 'tools' isn't really nice you know...

bah, double posting as usual...

I know it's a rough economy, but replacing ovens with servers is just too much.

Next thing you know, the heating element in the coffee pots will be replaced by CPUs

No no no, you've got it backwards -- replace the CPU with pie. "Central Pie Unit". Or the heatsinks. Either way you'll save money and get to eat delicious pie.

This article was one of the worst ever posted here, I'm surprised this shit was brought back. However, I now have a craving for meat pies.

pallen:

I know it's a rough economy, but replacing ovens with servers is just too much.

Next thing you know, the heating element in the coffee pots will be replaced by CPUs

No no no, you've got it backwards -- replace the CPU with pie. "Central Pie Unit". Or the heatsinks. Either way you'll save money and get to eat delicious pie.

Mmmmmmmm central pie unit
</homer>

enfiskutensykkel:

Hey, calling your colleagues 'tools' isn't really nice you know...

If the cap fits...

SR:

* we work in a converted church - it was a challenge to install even after we'd got planning permission.

A converted church? But I thought churches... Oh. I see what you did there.

BTW, I hate people tripping fat down my back into my PSU? I'm tired of being a server.

Hmm, another "classic" that isn't particularly classic. I have to say, there are plenty of articles in the archive that are far more interesting; actual IT stories, instead of Tuesday's "I worked with a guy called Lyle and he was a bit of a dick" and today's "user got food on the server". Also, why are the current "classics" only a couple of years old? A classic is supposed to be a trip down memory lane, a retelling of those true greats that were printed before a lot of today's readers even knew about this place. I'm not saying you should drag up frigging Paula Bean again or anything like that but TDWTF archives are stuffed full of really good material, actual IT stories instead of "idiot misuses server" or "I hate my coworkers so I'm going to bitch about them in a TDWTF submission".

Just my 2c. BTW, I have read every article ever printed on TDWTF (redundancy is fun) so I know those true classics exist.

TRWTF is letting some outback Aussies run a server.

We weren't allowed to have heating devices in college, but we were all required to purchase the school's standard Pentium 4 laptops (IBM Thinkpad T52s, I believe). A stack of 2-3 P4s in a drawer with some cold pizza for 15 minutes would make the food more than warm enough to eat.

TRWTF, in this case, was allowing us access to wind tunnels and linear accelerators but not microwaves.

MP (Real):

TRWTF is letting some outback Aussies run a server.

Throw another meatpie on the barbie?

The most classic WTF is the saga of Paula Bean.

http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/The_Brillant_Paula_Bean.aspx

You've gotta be joking mate. Any true-blue Aussie wouldn't warm a pie in a microwave. Too bloody soggy.

Anonymous:

I'm not saying you should drag up frigging Paula Bean again...

I couldn't agree more. But then again, someone had to do it didn't they...

Paula:

The most classic WTF is the saga of Paula Bean...

Paula Bean has been so run into the ground that it's turned into an anti-classic. There are much better articles to resurrect from the archive.

J:

I know it's a rough economy, but replacing ovens with servers is just too much.

Next thing you know, the heating element in the coffee pots will be replaced by CPUs.

Isn't that what water-cooled cpus is all about?

What a bloody coincidence. I work in a small IT-Business in Australia and our rack servers are in the kitchenette too. But they've got their own dedicated cooling unit and aren't simply sitting in a cupboard or anything.

Meatpie:

Throw another meatpie on the barbie?

Don't throw anything on Barbie. Violence against women ISN'T FUNNY!

Knowing a bit about the aussie preferred serving suggestion, the support chap should consider himself lucky the outback aussie wasnt warming up a Meat Pie Floater...

frits:

That picture is making me hungry.

pallen:

Either way you'll save money and get to eat delicious pie.

ObiWayneKenobi:

However, I now have a craving for meat pies.

You guys are really sick. Who would want to eat *that* ? Do you live in US or something ?

pallen:

you'll save money and get to eat delicious pie.

The pie is a lie!

toshir0:

frits:

That picture is making me hungry.

pallen:

Either way you'll save money and get to eat delicious pie.

ObiWayneKenobi:

However, I now have a craving for meat pies.

You guys are really sick. Who would want to eat *that* ? Do you live in US or something ?

No. I live in me.

Anyway, since this story took place in Australia, we could be from there; or The UK. Have you ever heard of a pasty?

Chicken pot chicken pot chicken pot piiiiiie!

pitchingchris:

when the only tool you have is a server...

everything looks like a meat pie?

3.14

blah was able to offer a simple solution: use Word or something instead to check your shameless writing.

How can you expect people to buy Inedo products when the unofficial face of the company has zero appreciation for detail?

All that and I bet they didn't bother to implement HTCPCP (RFC 2324).

Daniel:

TRWTF, in this case, was allowing us access to wind tunnels and linear accelerators but not microwaves.

So you had access to a linear accelerator, but used P4s to head your pizza. How inefficient. Just a second or two in the accelerator should have solved your heat problem (and you may have discovered a new elementary particle).

The Bytemaster:

All that and I bet they didn't bother to implement HTCPCP (RFC 2324).

That's because most Commonwealth domains return HTTP 418.

Synch, really? Do you say sinch-ronize? I didn't think so. It's synchronize, and it's sync.

Synch works in synchronize because it's chr, like chron. Synch is like lynch--you should never do it. Chrome even auto-corrects synch to sync!

I know it's an old article, but the repost brought it to my attention. I can't help but read synch as sinch, and it distracts me from the article.

Capcha: acsi--poor man's ASCII.

This is fantastic, and made me chuckle a lot.
You guys are great.

Advance, Australia Fair!

Microwave a pie? You'd be deported from Australia for saying such a thing. It makes the pastry go soggy and horrible.

Well, I'm living in Germany. And I'm from Russia. And, I want that pie in the picture.

Daniel:

We weren't allowed to have heating devices in college, but we were all required to purchase the school's standard Pentium 4 laptops (IBM Thinkpad T52s, I believe). A stack of 2-3 P4s in a drawer with some cold pizza for 15 minutes would make the food more than warm enough to eat.

TRWTF, in this case, was allowing us access to wind tunnels and linear accelerators but not microwaves.

TRWTF is reheating pizza. Cold is the way.

Knux2:

pitchingchris:

when the only tool you have is a server...

every problem looks like a database?

public static void place(Server server, Food food) {

	if (food.getName().equals("Meat Pie"))

		throw new IllegalFoodOnServerException("WTF?);

	else

		server.add(food);

}

Auction_God:

Daniel:

TRWTF, in this case, was allowing us access to wind tunnels and linear accelerators but not microwaves.

So you had access to a linear accelerator, but used P4s to head your pizza. How inefficient. Just a second or two in the accelerator should have solved your heat problem (and you may have discovered a new elementary particle).

But if the particles get too energetic space-time gets distorted and geometry becomes non-Euclidian and Pi is no longer equal to 3.14159... which ruins it as it becomes all soggy so you end up getting deported from Australia or worse!

ContraCorners:

Meatpie:

Throw another meatpie on the barbie?

Don't throw anything on Barbie. Violence against women ISN'T FUNNY!

I could have sworn it was defrosted.

Rich:

Paula Bean has been so run into the ground that it's turned into an anti-classic. There are much better articles to resurrect from the archive.

If TDWTF adheres to the laws of physics, then combine a classic with an anti-classic to produce energy, measured in craptons.

I forget if I ever mentioned this before, so forgive me if this is something you already heard.
This happened in the 80's at another shop in the area, the guy who told me about it was one of those fired when it happened and he started working with me.

This was back in the mainframe/midrange/minicomputer days.

They had drives with drive packs that were removable. So there was a hinge at the front so you could open and replace drives, which was handy for testing the entire OS. There was also a service door in the back with a small shelf which was handy for warming things. So one of the operators put a couple of take-out eggrolls from the local Chinese restaurant to keep them warm. So they were in the usual rice paper(?) container. Apparently this fell off the shelf and landed somewhere below in the cabinet which housed the disks and the hardware. Suffice to say, eggrolls are fried in grease.
So the grease dripped onto everything.
A few hours later, the disks started reporting serious errors and halted their business completely.
IBM comes out and with all the high mucky-mucks (C*Os and the like) watching, the tech pulls out the dessicated package and proudly announces "Gentlemen, lunch is served!".

The entire operations staff, all three shifts, was fired shortly after. This happened in Philly, so anyone who recalls this story from first or second hand experience is welcome to correct or amplify the above.

pallen:

No no no, you've got it backwards -- replace the CPU with pie. "Central Pie Unit". Or the heatsinks. Either way you'll save money and get to eat delicious pie.

So ... I'm NOT supposed to wash my dishes in the heat sink? But it's still okay to use a string buffer to polish my shoes, isn't it?

Many years ago, back in the mainframe days, I worked in a building that was heated in the winter with the waste heat from the computers. I don't know how much money that really saved, but it sounded very efficient and environmentally conscious and all that.