On Call The working week can be burdensome, so each Friday morning The Register tries to lighten the load by bringing you a new instalment of On Call, the reader-contributed column in which you let go of tech support stories that weigh on your memory.

This week, meet a reader we'll Regomize as "Bobby" who told us about an old friend of his who he suggested we refer to as "Peanut."

Peanut was a Mac tech by trade, and a Linux user by inclination.

Those affiliations combined into a fanatical appetite for unbroken uptime.

Which is how Bobby came into this story.

"The people Peanut worked for were moving to new premises, and he didn’t want to lose the 400-plus days of uptime on his mail server," Bobby explained.

"So he came up with a scheme to move the server and the UPS between buildings

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