R2-D2 Monitors Your Web Servers
1sockchuck writes "What happens when you hire Star Wars enthusiasts as the system admins for your data center? You end up with the R2-D2 server monitoring system. The staff at Japan's Syun (only if you read Japanese) have converted an R2-D2 DVD projector into a Nagios-based server monitoring system that alerts them whenever a server goes offline." Say what you will, but that's a lot harder to ignore than a beeper.
The site is getting hammered by slashdot but the entire article is basically just this youtube video so go here if and when the site dies.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15rUkIJ25EE