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The Server Fell Over (lemmy.ml)

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[–] [email protected] 88 points 5 months ago (11 children)

I'm gonna guess the original version of this joke said "crashed" instead of "fell over", cause then it would actually be ambiguous enough for the premise to work.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 5 months ago (8 children)

I use fell over to mean crashed all the time

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 months ago (6 children)

Same, I thought it was used commonly too.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I vaguely recall a (probably apocryphal) story of an early washing machine-sized hard drive that lurched its way across the floor during a customer demo, eventually falling over once the connecting cables pulled taught.

That said, those hard drives did indeed move themselves: http://catb.org/jargon/html/W/walking-drives.html

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Some bands of old-time hackers figured out how to induce disk-accessing patterns that would do this to particular drive models and held disk-drive races.

I love the Jargon File

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