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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 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.

  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?