My favorite IT story (not mine) is that the server needed to be rebooted whenever it froze completely. The best solution? Get an old PC that had a CD drive, and every time it loses connection to the server, eject the CD tray which had a poking stick attached that hits the reset button.

@njpugh90 but you loose all the cool aspect of it :p

@MrJimmy it was also posted on r/programmerhumor 1-2 days ago

Funny story, I actually had a proof of concept project I did many years ago that connected a voice chat program to a handheld radio (walkie talkie)... Whenever someone was taking on the software side it would buffer the audio for a few seconds and eject the CD tray, which had wires taped to it that would touch when it was open and cue the radio as if someone was holding down the talk button. Then it would play out whatever was said in the voice chat to the radio so everyone on a radio could hear it. It was SUPER GHETTO! Lol But, it worked well enough to determine that we definitely wanted to do it, so we bought the hardware needed to connect them properly. 8+years later they are still using using it, though with different software and some upgraded hardware. Hands down the most ghetto project I've ever done. Lol