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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. The article is dated May 28, 2006 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Insightful

    And this is news how?

    1. Re:The article is dated May 28, 2006 by Rurik · · Score: 5, Insightful

      I think we need to start slashbombing the submitters of these articles. I doubt /. has a backlog of submissions two years old, so people need to stop submitting old crap to this site.

      We're looking at YOU, nz17

    2. Re:The article is dated May 28, 2006 by xaxa · · Score: 5, Insightful

      How do we ignore idle./. stories? I'd like to turn them off the same way I can turn off Apple stories (for instance).

    3. Re:The article is dated May 28, 2006 by brianosaurus · · Score: 2, Insightful

      $ grep slashdot /etc/hosts
      127.0.0.1 idle.slashdot.org
      $

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      blog
    4. Re:The article is dated May 28, 2006 by garett_spencley · · Score: 4, Insightful

      Won't take the story off the main page though. Will just prevent you from being able to (successfully) click on the Read More link.

      I don't mind Idle but I agree that there should be a way to filter it from the main page like all the other sections. Seems absolutely ridiculous that there isn't.

  2. Please, Please Stop by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Insightful

    No more stupid stories, please.

    1. Re:Please, Please Stop by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

      What I can't understand is how people take a boring article on /. so goddamn personal.

      You are not entitled to anything. If you think it's boring, don't waste your time on it. It is just that simple.

      This is really the same as "if you don't like what's on right now, change the channel". Don't spend your time crying like a child in the forums about how you want everything to be a certain way. Just fuck off and read the next article.

      Christ you people are sad. Go play on digg where that crybaby shit is the norm.

  3. Holiday Qualitay by TheRedSeven · · Score: 5, Insightful
    ...is low as usual--a two-year old article, posted to Idle, makes the front page.

    At least this line actually made me laugh:

    excrement encountered the rotary cooling device
  4. Aaaagghhh! Make it stop! by iminplaya · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Keep the damn idle OFF the front page! At the VERY least, let me block it!

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    What?
    1. Re:Aaaagghhh! Make it stop! by ZorinLynx · · Score: 1, Insightful

      This story was amusing! Why is everyone bitching about it?

      Gods, people, get a grip. If a story doesn't interest you, DON'T FREAKING CLICK ON IT. Duhh. It's not rocket science.

      This is the same attitude that people have when they want to ban/censor TV shows and video games they don't like.

      If you don't like it, ignore it.

  5. WTF - An X-BOX?! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

    There's no way that was cost effective, unless someone pulled it out of the trash. A generic "white" box could easily be had for under $200, and would be far more suitable for a server.

    The admin got what he deserved. The IT Manager was right to pull that piece of crap out of the rack.

    It would have been worse if it were an XBox 360. We all know how friggin' reliable they have been.

    The admin is no hero here. He was a stupid fool from the start.

  6. Re:Fucking Digg submissions by ChowRiit · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Who cares what's been or not been on Digg? I read slashdot for my tech news, if they started only publishing stories that hadn't been published anywhere else, we wouldn't get much news...

    Now, a 2 year old Idle story being forced onto everyone's front page, that's a better thing to moan about...

  7. Re:Philosophy students by elrous0 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    According to the Stoics, it never really belonged to them in the first place.

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    SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.
  8. Re:Philosophy students by houstonbofh · · Score: 2, Insightful

    They consider if the web server is actually down, or if they just perceive it to be down.