Another Bastard Programmer from Hell classic:

- “What?? 1.5 weeks power outage?” I cry
- “Yeah, they’re installing some new power plant, so our building is in the dark for 1.5 weeks. Nothing to worry about. Half of the personnel is on holiday anyway”, Dennis says calmly
- “WAIT A MINUTE; What about the (il)legal servers under my desk?”, with a frantic look on my face.
- “Euh… yeah well… they’ll be down”, Dennis, calm as ever
- “Yeah, and what about half of the people that ARE here, they’ll need the apps on those servers, right?”
- “Well if they’re not official servers, not much we can do about it, is there?”. This guy really pisses me off.

Time to take matters in our own hands. Click click, restoring some backups on the old backup box. Done.
Now back in the DC they’ll have power, so I call the DC-dude to see if he has some space left in their geek-room. Walking with the server through the gate, the security guy looks as if I’m taking a bomb into the building. With a smile I say: “It’s only temporary”.

Opening the door of the geek-room, an instant cold wind blows us in the face. What a noise. God how I love the smell of electronics in the afternoon. Now all we have to do is find a safe spot on the floor to put our precious merchandise. Hmm, there, nice and close to the loose network cable and power supply. I plug her in and fire her up, damn, no DHCP. I check the list for a free IP, reboot, and away she goes. I also ask the DC-dude to set up some DNS entry so that it becomes more easy to find our little baby; “Yeah sure, it’s a temporary solution” (NOT).

Back at the office.
Someone asks: “Jow Dennis, what about that power outage? Will we still have all those cool apps from the COpilot server?”
- “Yeah well, euh, I’m looking into that”, he says.
- “YES OF COURSE”, I shout from my desk “they’re on a server in the DC”
Dennis looks at me with a dumb look. “What do you mean, we don’t have a DC server”
- “Yes we do, it’s been there for ages”.