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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 elrous0 · · Score: 3, Insightful

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

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    5. 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.

    6. 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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  2. 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 Khyber · · Score: 3, Informative

      You must be new here. Old shit on the weekends is the norm for this site.

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    4. 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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    5. 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.

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

    Another reason to run Windows servers.

    1. Re:Linux on Xbox by smchris · · Score: 4, Interesting

      Since it's on Windows IT Pro, I assume that is the intended tone. "Business don't try anything innovative like those stupid, penny-pinching colleges."

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

    No more stupid stories, please.

    1. Re:Please, Please Stop by Bryan+Ischo · · Score: 4, Interesting

      I'm afraid you're not going to get your wish. I had an email discussion with CmdrTaco on this subject last summer. He basically admitted that during the 'lull time' of U.S. summer, they have to scrape around for articles to post because summer time means far fewer cool university publications, and businesses release fewer products and stuff during summer as well.

      I specifically complained about kdawson and the drivel that he posts but CmdrTaco defended him by saying that he (CmdrTaco) though that he (kdawson) did 'a pretty good job' as an editor.

      Really, at that point, I realized that there is nothing that anyone can do. I mean, if you can defend kdawson's editing and story submission quality, then I guess you can defend anything.

      I don't know how long the average user lasts on Slashdot before getting fed up and moving on; the first 5 years I read Slashdot it steadily improved in quality but the last 5 years have been all downhill. I'm really starting to reach my limit of tolerance for it. Many days I say to myself, "that's it, I'm not reading Slashdot at all anymore", but old habits die hard and I keep coming back.

  5. 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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  6. 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
  7. 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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  8. 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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  9. 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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  10. 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...

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

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