# Did you have to restore the SDMB from floppies? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [December 23, 2008, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-have-to-restore-the-sdmb-from-floppies/478438 "2008-12-23T21:37:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Zakalwe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zakalwe/32/270_2.png) [@Zakalwe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zakalwe)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2008, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-have-to-restore-the-sdmb-from-floppies/478438/61 "2008-12-24T19:31:57Z")
> [@DudleyGarrett](#): > > Funny, in my data center, we have things called Service Level Agreements. We have to maintain 99.999% up time or we start paying clients back. But we always seem to make 100%. Really? No application running in your data center ever crashes? Ever? Or is it possible that you don’t actually know what you’re talking about and you mean that the power and internet connection stay up 100% (which isn’t that hard to do although the necessary hardware can get a bit pricey). And edited to add: Jerry had to run all the punch cards through the sorter before he could reload. That’s what takes all the time… ---
**Author:** ![descamisado](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e480ec/32.png) [@descamisado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/descamisado)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2008, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-have-to-restore-the-sdmb-from-floppies/478438/62 "2008-12-24T19:45:40Z")
If you’d hired that Jerry guy when he sent you his resume a few weeks ago, he wouldn’t be singling you out for denial of service on the SDMB to get back at you now. ---
**Author:** ![DudleyGarrett](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d9b06d/32.png) [@DudleyGarrett](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DudleyGarrett)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2008, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-have-to-restore-the-sdmb-from-floppies/478438/63 "2008-12-24T20:10:48Z")
> [@Zakalwe](#): > > Really? No application running in your data center ever crashes? Ever? Or is it possible that you don’t actually know what you’re talking about and you mean that the power and internet connection stay up 100% (which isn’t that hard to do although the necessary hardware can get a bit pricey). Yes, really. There isn’t a single point of failure in any part of my data center. This goes all the way from street power feeds to the presentation layer of a given application. Of course applications crash, power lines and fiber connections get cut, network routers fail; that’s why there’s redundancy throughout. Of course, you could just ask me, without the snark (since none was aimed at you), and I’d answer more extensively. But, instead you get brevity and an invitation to go fuck yourself. ---
**Author:** ![Scissorjack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c67d28/32.png) [@Scissorjack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scissorjack)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2008, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-have-to-restore-the-sdmb-from-floppies/478438/64 "2008-12-24T20:19:41Z")
> [@DudleyGarrett](#): > > Of course, you could just ask me, without the snark (since none was aimed at you), and I’d answer more extensively. But, instead you get brevity and an invitation to go fuck yourself. Merry fucking Christmas, mate. ---
**Author:** ![DudleyGarrett](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d9b06d/32.png) [@DudleyGarrett](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DudleyGarrett)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2008, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-have-to-restore-the-sdmb-from-floppies/478438/65 "2008-12-24T20:21:17Z")
> [@Scissorjack](#): > > Merry fucking Christmas, mate. Same to you. ---
**Author:** ![Fish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/bc8723/32.png) [@Fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fish)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2008, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-have-to-restore-the-sdmb-from-floppies/478438/66 "2008-12-24T20:26:35Z")
And since **Dudley** acts like a whiny bitch when a single cloud darkens his horizon, I’ll bet he’s just a delight to work with. ---
**Author:** ![Darth\_Nader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@Darth\_Nader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darth_Nader)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2008, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-have-to-restore-the-sdmb-from-floppies/478438/67 "2008-12-24T20:28:21Z")
> [@Scissorjack](#): > > The 16K RAM dongle’s probably worked its way loose again: wedge it in with a strip of cardboard. > > Oh, yeah! We’re troubleshooting it _old skool!_ Wow, another Sinclair user comes out! WhooPRINT! ---
**Author:** ![Omegaman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/e480ec/32.png) [@Omegaman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omegaman)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2008, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-have-to-restore-the-sdmb-from-floppies/478438/68 "2008-12-24T20:36:55Z")
> [@DudleyGarrett](#): > > Yes, really. There isn’t a single point of failure in any part of my data center. This goes all the way from street power feeds to the presentation layer of a given application. Of course applications crash, power lines and fiber connections get cut, network routers fail; that’s why there’s redundancy throughout. > > Of course, you could just ask me, without the snark (since none was aimed at you), and I’d answer more extensively. But, instead you get brevity and an invitation to go fuck yourself. So what the hell **Dudley**? You trying to tell me all the people at your work need their computers or something? Exactly what the hell is your problem anyway? Trying for employee of the year or what? This is the dope bitch. You’ll take what you’re given and if you get the nads you’ll ask for seconds. You brown nosing bastard. You keep this fucked up attitude going and somebody in management will notice your upstart ass for sure.😃 ---
**Author:** ![DudleyGarrett](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d9b06d/32.png) [@DudleyGarrett](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DudleyGarrett)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2008, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-have-to-restore-the-sdmb-from-floppies/478438/69 "2008-12-24T20:39:13Z")
> [@Omegaman](#): > > So what the hell **Dudley**? You trying to tell me all the people at your work need their computers or something? > > Exactly what the hell is your problem anyway? Trying for employee of the year or what? > > This is the dope bitch. You’ll take what you’re given and if you get the nads you’ll ask for seconds. > > You brown nosing bastard. You keep this fucked up attitude going and somebody in management will notice your upstart ass for sure.😃 **Omegaman** , you crack me up, dude. ---
**Author:** ![Astroboy14](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/df705f/32.png) [@Astroboy14](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Astroboy14)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2008, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-have-to-restore-the-sdmb-from-floppies/478438/70 "2008-12-24T20:45:56Z")
> [@Fish](#): > > The 3K Vic-20 Super Expander is having the devil of a time drawing and filling that SDMB logo in 4-bit color. My first computer! :eek: (…and I didn’t have a tape drive, so I had to re-type whatever basic program I had written every time I turned the computer off and then back on! Them was the days!) ---
**Author:** ![ReuvenB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9fc348/32.png) [@ReuvenB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ReuvenB)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2008, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-have-to-restore-the-sdmb-from-floppies/478438/71 "2008-12-24T20:51:25Z")
> [@DudleyGarrett](#): > > Yes, really. There isn’t a single point of failure in any part of my data center. This goes all the way from street power feeds to the presentation layer of a given application. Of course applications crash, power lines and fiber connections get cut, network routers fail; that’s why there’s redundancy throughout. > > Of course, you could just ask me, without the snark (since none was aimed at you), and I’d answer more extensively. But, instead you get brevity and an invitation to go fuck yourself. So tell you what. Since your data center is so fucking awesome, you go host your own message board. And you can take with you all the other pig fuckers who bitch and moan every ten minutes about how terrible it is here. And then, you’ll never have to be bothered again. Or maybe you just like complaining. Just a guess. ---
**Author:** ![DudleyGarrett](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d9b06d/32.png) [@DudleyGarrett](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DudleyGarrett)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2008, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-have-to-restore-the-sdmb-from-floppies/478438/72 "2008-12-24T20:59:49Z")
> [@XWalrus2](#): > > So tell you what. Since your data center is so fucking awesome, you go host your own message board. And you can take with you all the other pig fuckers who bitch and moan every ten minutes about how terrible it is here. And then, you’ll never have to be bothered again. > > Or maybe you just like complaining. Just a guess. Actually, I’m hoping, by complaining (and not every 10 minutes like you say – only when there are issues), that this place will actually become more stable. You know, I’m hoping that Ed Zotti reads the negative feedback he receives from his customers and makes the appropriate changes. As it stands now, the board has a lot of problems, and the apologists (like yourself) will just keep it that way. Unfortunately, you’re a very loud minority. I find it very odd that most of you are taking my complaints toward the board’s performance so personally. ---
**Author:** ![Fish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/bc8723/32.png) [@Fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fish)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2008, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-have-to-restore-the-sdmb-from-floppies/478438/73 "2008-12-24T21:02:32Z")
> [@DudleyGarrett](#): > > I find it very odd that most of you are taking my complaints toward the board’s performance so personally. More like: _Yawn_, Dudley’s complaining again? I wonder what other threads there are in the Pit. Seriously, man, you’ve got a reputation as a grade-A whiner. The only time I see your name is when you’re bitchin’ about somethin’. Don’t you have you have something to contribute? ---
**Author:** ![DudleyGarrett](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d9b06d/32.png) [@DudleyGarrett](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DudleyGarrett)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2008, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-have-to-restore-the-sdmb-from-floppies/478438/74 "2008-12-24T21:06:32Z")
> [@Fish](#): > > More like: > > _Yawn_, Dudley’s complaining again? I wonder what other threads there are in the Pit. > > Seriously, man, you’ve got a reputation as a grade-A whiner. The only time I see your name is when you’re bitchin’ about somethin’. Don’t you have you have something to contribute? I fail to see where your perception of me as a constant complainer has anything to do with the board’s technical problems. If you don’t like the tone of my posts in regards to this subject, you don’t have to read them. Further, I don’t understand why you bother responding at all. You’ve tried to bait me a few times in this thread alone. ---
**Author:** ![TVeblen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/4bbf92/32.png) [@TVeblen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TVeblen)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2008, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-have-to-restore-the-sdmb-from-floppies/478438/75 "2008-12-24T21:20:27Z")
[QUOTE=DudleyGarrett] As it stands now, the board has a lot of problems, and the apologists (like yourself) will just keep it that way. Unfortunately, you’re a very loud minority. [/QUOTE] Yep, apologist slime like us have been a big part of the problem. If we’d just thrown tantrums, whined and held our breath till we turned blue we could have kept _The Chicago Reader_ solvent and kept Creative Loafing from bankruptcy. I so admire the offenderati who pitch hissy fits whenever they don’t get exactly what they want _right now_. “I pay your salary! I’m the CUSTOMER so you cannot possibly do enough for me!” A message board glitched for a few hours. What inconceivable pain you must have suffered. You should leave any message board that treated you so shabbily and never return, just to teach them a sharp lesson. ---
**Author:** ![DudleyGarrett](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d9b06d/32.png) [@DudleyGarrett](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DudleyGarrett)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2008, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-have-to-restore-the-sdmb-from-floppies/478438/76 "2008-12-24T21:22:49Z")
> [@TVeblen](#): > > \ thrown tantrums, whined and held our breath till we turned blue \ > > \ offenderati who pitch hissy fits whenever they don’t get exactly what they want _right now_. “I pay your salary! I’m the CUSTOMER so you cannot possibly do enough for me!” \ Where did any of this happen? BTW, you’re not wearing your “Straight Dope Science Advisory Board” title well (and seeing past posts of yours, this isn’t a surprise, you frothing-at-the-mouth ape) ---
**Author:** ![TVeblen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/4bbf92/32.png) [@TVeblen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TVeblen)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2008, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-have-to-restore-the-sdmb-from-floppies/478438/77 "2008-12-24T21:40:56Z")
[QUOTE=DudleyGarrett] BTW, you’re not wearing your “Straight Dope Science Advisory Board” title well (and seeing past posts of yours, this isn’t a surprise, you frothing-at-the-mouth ape) [/QUOTE] Ah, so now anybody who ever volunteered in any capacity for this board owes you deference because you’re a _customer_? Won’t happen, Scooter. ---
**Author:** ![DudleyGarrett](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d9b06d/32.png) [@DudleyGarrett](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DudleyGarrett)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2008, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-have-to-restore-the-sdmb-from-floppies/478438/78 "2008-12-24T21:42:19Z")
> [@TVeblen](#): > > Ah, so now anybody who ever volunteered in any capacity for this board owes you deference because you’re a _customer_? > > Won’t happen, Scooter. Where are you getting this from? This is what I see. Me: I want to make the boards better and more stable. You (and your ilk): &#&\*(#\*#&@&#(&#&@#(@#stop whining#$^%$$#$$%%^# ---
**Author:** ![Jeff](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e19b73/32.png) [@Jeff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jeff)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2008, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-have-to-restore-the-sdmb-from-floppies/478438/79 "2008-12-24T21:43:11Z")
Doesn’t getting that mug make you a paid employee? 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Jeff](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e19b73/32.png) [@Jeff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jeff)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2008, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-have-to-restore-the-sdmb-from-floppies/478438/80 "2008-12-24T21:46:17Z")
> [@DudleyGarrett](#): > > Me: I want to make the boards better and more stable. That’s your honest assessment of your posts? Holy shit, but that’s hilarious. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-have-to-restore-the-sdmb-from-floppies/478438.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-have-to-restore-the-sdmb-from-floppies/478438.md?page=5)