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Manager Disables Web Server by Sneaking Away Xbox

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the solve-with-a-post-it-note dept.

nz17 writes "While the administrator is away the managers will play. A custom Web server went missing at an unnamed public university, but who was the culprit? The department manager. Thinking that the Linux Web server (which used a Microsoft Xbox for its hardware) was a normal game console, he snuck the device out of the server room and home for his son to play over the holiday weekend. The philosophy students who used the server for their class were not amused."

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  1. Philosophy students by Gothmolly · · Score: 5, Funny

    What were they doing with it, sitting around asking 'what is the sound of 1 Xbox playing?' Philosophy kids don't actually DO anything, esp. on weekends, so whats all the outrage?

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    1. Re:Philosophy students by nomadic · · Score: 5, Funny

      Philosophy kids don't actually DO anything, esp. on weekends, so whats all the outrage?

      Umm, hello, they play the xbox. Without the "web server" they can't do that anymore.

    2. Re:Philosophy students by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

      'what is the sound of 1 Xbox playing?' Segggggggggggaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.

    3. Re:Philosophy students by ch-chuck · · Score: 4, Funny

      whats all the outrage?

      We, the students of the university philosophical society demand that you do, or do not, return the Xbox webserver !

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    4. Re:Philosophy students by uglyduckling · · Score: 4, Funny

      We demand that we may (or may not be) the philosophy students. We demand clearly-defined areas of doubt and uncertainty.

    5. Re:Philosophy students by The_Rook · · Score: 3, Funny

      the philosophy students demand that there may, or may not, be an xbox server.

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    6. Re:Philosophy students by Macgrrl · · Score: 2, Funny

      We demand clearly-defined areas of doubt and uncertainty.

      Well... it is a Microsoft product, so you get the uncertainty and doubt as a given with a side serve of fear...

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  2. Linux on Xbox by noz · · Score: 4, Funny

    Another reason to run Windows servers.

  3. Re:Oooold by zappepcs · · Score: 4, Funny

    And Aesop says the lesson of the story is: If it's not yours, leave it the FUCK alone already! If you don't, they will write about how stupid you are for years to come.

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  4. Re:OLD by ColdWetDog · · Score: 4, Funny
    I know! Let's do something more fun.

    Let's post some Scientology documents!

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  5. Kudos to the admin by Goalie_Ca · · Score: 4, Funny

    He did what no philosophy student could. He proved that the box exists!

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  6. Re:The article is dated May 28, 2006 by leamanc · · Score: 4, Funny

    How did you post here then? Running a local cached copy of idle.slashdot.org? :-)

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  7. Re:philosophy students were not amused by pjt33 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Nonsense. There's plenty of work for philosophy students in retail.

  8. Re:XBox Server... WTF? by MikeFM · · Score: 2, Funny

    I have to agree. What the heck are they doing using an XBOX as their web server. Why not just plug the coffee machine in too so you can at least run Java. Doh.

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  9. Re:WTF - An X-BOX?! by hiruhl · · Score: 2, Funny

    Dean, to the computer science department: "Why do I always have to give you guys so much money, for software licenses and expensive hardware and stuff? Why couldn't you be like the math department - all they need is money for pencils, paper and waste-paper baskets. Or even better, like the philosophy department. All they need are pencils and paper."

  10. Re:Aaaagghhh! Make it stop! by iminplaya · · Score: 2, Funny

    (Score:0, Offtopic)

    Oh jeeze! Modded by an idle worshiper. Go back to facebook, or wherever the hell you came from. We don't want you in our sandbox.

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