three years agoClever use of the materials at hand!

Inspired by the recent Daily WTF article, some colleagues of mine developed an ingenious solution to a server timeout problem.

A connection to a server would time out after 2 minutes of inactivity, to counteract this whilst an application was being installed they attached an optical mouse to a rotating fan to simulate movement. Genius!

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Posted at 8:41 pm on the 30th of November 2006. 2 Comments

2 comments

  1. So those fans aren’t only useful during particularly scorching summers then…

    FatBusinessman 30th November 2006 22:25permalink.

  2. Hah, I saw the pictures and mention of flaky servers and thought: "Genius, they've connected the fan up to dev so it turns off every time it goes down! (every 2 minutes)" You should totally get them to do that.

    James Wheare 1st December 2006 00:15permalink.

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