* * * * *
                                        
               “Ah, I see you have the machine that goes ‘ping!’”
                                        
> “No, it was really stupid.” Erik sighed. “I just had the idea that a CD
> (Compact Disc) ROM (Read-Only Media) drive in an old system could eject and
> hit the reset button. It was a ridiculous idea.”
> 
> “Wait,” Laura began, “could you really do that?”
> 
> It was another uncomfortable moment for Erik, but she seemed serious, so he
> just went for it. “Uh, yeah, I could, but it's hardly the best solution … I
> mean, I'd have to position the servers just right, somehow get the heights
> and alignment correct, and update the polling script to eject the CD ROM
> drive any time it didn't respond to ping.”
> 
> And that was exactly what Erik found himself spending the rest of the
> afternoon setting up.
> 

“ITAPPMONROBOT [1]”

Yeah, I can relate [2] … 

[1] http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/ITAPPMONROBOT.aspx
[2] gopher://gopher.conman.org/0Phlog:2007/12/18.1

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