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Ask Slashdot: Little Boxes Around the Edge of the Data Center?

Posted by timothy on from the gee-look-at-all-the-little-black-dots dept.

First time accepted submitter spaceyhackerlady writes "We're looking at some new development, and a big question mark is the little boxes around the edge of the data center — the NTP servers, the monitoring boxes, the stuff that supports and interfaces with the Big Iron that does the real work. The last time I visited a hosting farm I saw shelves of Mac Minis, but that was five years ago. What do people like now for their little support boxes?"

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  1. Little boxes by Hatta · · Score: 5, Funny

    I make them with ticky tack.

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    1. Re:Little boxes by TheGratefulNet · · Score: 5, Funny

      network boxes,
      made in china,
      network boxes that go sparky-spark
      network boxes
      exploding boxes
      dangerous boxes, all the same.

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    2. Re:Little boxes by JoeCommodore · · Score: 4, Funny

      Iv'e seen Windows 8, I know what ticky tack little boxes look like.

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    3. Re:Little boxes by Em+Adespoton · · Score: 5, Funny

      There are white ones
      And more white ones
      And they all have those blinky lights
      and they're all made out of ticky tacky
      and they all fail just the same.

  2. If you by JustOK · · Score: 5, Funny

    If you can't run it on your iPad, it's probably not worth running.

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