• Simon says (unregistered) in reply to by

    Meh, I liked both versions, and I wrote the original! Remy's take on it matches the writing style a little closer to what you'd normally expect on tdwtf, and used the correct term for twist-in plugs, which I promptly forgot.

    Thanks to the various commenters who cleared up the confusion I introduced in the original. If you like my style of writing there are a few (non IT) scribbles in the notes section on http://www.facebook.com/derailings.

  • Tony Kollias (unregistered)

    saving throw vs stupidity ? man you're an RPG fan man like us ! AD&D especially

  • anonymous hater (unregistered) in reply to Ren

    QFT!

    Ren:
    Yes, the original story is much, much better written. It should be a featured comment ASAP.

    The copywriting here almost equals the horrible standards of /b/, and that's terrible.

  • (cs) in reply to Ozz
    Ozz:
    jonsjava:
    For those who don't know what a server room is like: it's loud.
    And for those who have never experienced it, there is a surreal reverse "woosh" as everything spins down simultaneously, followed by a ghostly, gut-wrenching silence...

    Even if it's part of a scheduled server room move or something, where the silence was scheduled months in advance, it's still gut-wrenching. But it's not as bad as the echos of an empty server room, as you're hauling away the last rack.

  • (cs) in reply to Eric
    Eric:
    If you drill any further into the power supply, I believe the problem will solve itself.

    Sadly, so many people out there seem unaware of the existence of electrically-insulated drills. While they aren't very common, both of the people I've known who had one were electricians.

  • eric bloedow (unregistered)

    reminds me of a story i read, i think it was in one of Scott Adams' books: the emergency cut-off switch, was, for some reason, on the ceiling, where it couldn't be reached easily. someone suggested tying a rope to it...and an exceptionally dumb manager said no, because "someone might turn it on at the wrong time by pushing up on the rope."

  • eric bloedow (unregistered)

    this reminds me of a story i read somewhere: a company was doing renovations, and a carpenter needed a "sawhorse" to support one end of a board while cutting it... he set it on top of a PC, and CUT THE PC CLEAR IN HALF! ok, not completely in half, but he definitely ruined it.

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