Manager Disables Web Server by Sneaking Away Xbox

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."

Comments

Philosophy students

[Gothmolly]

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?

Re:Philosophy students

[nomadic]

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.

Re:The article is dated May 28, 2006

[Rurik]

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

Re:The article is dated May 28, 2006

[xaxa]

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

Holiday Qualitay

[TheRedSeven]

...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

Aaaagghhh! Make it stop!

[iminplaya]

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