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- thesoprano, on 10/31/2007, -7/+400Good to see MySpace is functional...
- synthox, on 10/10/2007, -6/+254This picture is like 10 years old.....
Digg is turning into AOL 2.0 - inactive, on 10/10/2007, -2/+158whatever works!
- archlich, on 10/10/2007, -4/+91Did you see hamsterdance.com yet?
- CraigCarlyle, on 10/10/2007, -2/+78Looks like the back of my entertainment center.
- wayne247, on 10/10/2007, -8/+82Congratulations to the submitter for automatically assuming that a picture of wires is a webserver.
The part on the right is a stack of similar devices's backplates, at an angle. It looks something like the other side of a wall of an elaborate audio/video managing room.
This is in no way connected to the internet. It's most likely a television station control room or something similar to that, a decade ago when everything had to be analog and running hundreds of cameras to, say, an Olympics event, meant thousands of coax cables to string together.
As to why they're just a mess? If it's a temporary event, this'll all be ripped out in a few days. As long as they're labeled and they have a stack of spare cables, they're fine. - twrife, on 10/10/2007, -4/+70I would be afraid to touch the wires.
- mrpink.137, on 10/10/2007, -3/+651998 called. It wants its picture back.
- shawnz, on 10/10/2007, -8/+67who says its a web server?
- Butt3rs, on 10/10/2007, -3/+54true meaning to a "web" server...
- schestowitz, on 10/10/2007, -37/+72See http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/09/22/214253 . Here's a mirror, just in case. http://www.driftwood-dreams.co.uk/Anita/papier_mache_mirrors/papier-mache-mirror-jaipur.JPG
- ShaneApex, on 10/10/2007, -6/+39The hell with that, i would totally swith 5 wires to see what happened.
- cookiebearo, on 10/10/2007, -2/+33not funny anymore
it was only funny the first time, by the _original_ author - Salgat, on 10/10/2007, -2/+31Its a joke, doesn't matter.
- tsteele93, on 10/10/2007, -0/+26This is actually a BRILLIANT way to set up a web server. You will NEVER be fired. No one would ever look at that and think, "we'll just get someone else in here to take over and they'll figure that out with no downtime for us."
JOB SECURITY!!! - capiCrimm, on 10/10/2007, -2/+23it's breeding.
- bpapa, on 10/10/2007, -2/+21This picture is so old that it may have well been Black & White.
- mintshows, on 10/10/2007, -2/+19Isn't that a Super Nintendo there in the bottom-left?? :)
- stoikiometry, on 10/10/2007, -0/+17I have the urge to use it as a hammock.
- JaYBrooks, on 10/10/2007, -1/+13IF its a development system.. this is how they always end up looking... I remember having every thing zip tied and extra wires for future upgrades tied with them and it still ended up looking like this.. well maybe not that bad but similar.
- boethius, on 10/10/2007, -0/+12This picture is VERY old - at least 10 years. I've seen this picture numerous times over the years as an example of horrific wiring.
I also think it's highly probable this is not directly related to server hardware. It looks like it's probably related to audio/video patching. - delaen, on 10/10/2007, -1/+11So...how'd they maintain it after that? Or did they just let the business fall apart around them out of spite?
- oleeid, on 10/10/2007, -0/+9Who broke into my House?
- Neourotick, on 10/10/2007, -0/+9it looks like my parents house when they try to hook up new technology
- andyduncan, on 10/10/2007, -1/+10You'd think. A guy I know had an employee try something like that, built a mission-critical application that only he knew how to maintain, then tried to use it as leverage to get a raise. My friend fired him on the spot, just out of principle. I'd have done exactly the same thing.
- bwtaha, on 10/10/2007, -3/+11dugg even though you're a dick, but you explained what it is to the best of your knowledge
- pwnies, on 10/10/2007, -0/+8It's an AV rack, not a web server. So chances are you'd either just switch video feeds or isolate a few.
- Durrok, on 10/10/2007, -2/+10If you note the URL, it was dugg back up for System Admin day on Friday.
- dani8559, on 10/10/2007, -2/+10I was going to say dreamhost.
- zdiggler, on 10/10/2007, -0/+8is that one with Mushrooms?
- evilpig, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7no
- TylerLavite, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7is that a shop light hanging on the wires!
- Reziarfg, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5Anyone got that picture of that dancing baby?
- MenthiX, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5Torturing sysadmins with old pics on appreciation day? Great! :(
- DefaultGen, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4Too many ***** noobs on this site anymore indeed.
- pwnies, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4It's not a web server. It's an old AV rack. You can tell by the round connectors on the cables, which shows that they are component cables for video feeds and not ethernet cables.
- theone3, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4That would be the most awesome disgruntled resignation ever!
- msgyrd, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3dalaen: maintenance is usually just bugfixes and feature additions. if it was already being used, the existing bugs were probably small, and new features can wait until someone else figures it out. If he built it purposefully so that it couldn't be figured out, that's sabotage/blackmail and you take him to court for damages.
- carleethian, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3they have a picture of this on the door of the server room in the UT EE building
no toca custodians - ledguitar, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4How long would it take to fix it you switched two of the wires?
- OsakaWilson, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4It evolved into it's current condition over time.
- brokentone, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Good call. Looks like video distribution and stuff. . . a lotta BNC and composite.
- decades, on 10/10/2007, -3/+5Looks like our new guy set it up...
- AeroSquid, on 10/10/2007, -3/+5i love how old ass pics like this are big news on digg. too many ***** noobs on this site anymore.
- BenWang, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3I'm expecting the "I've seen worse" and the "Pictures of worse" comments
- Shootfast, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3You're probably right, The video tapes room in the TV station I work for is currently being remodeled, and there are far more wires protruding from the various VTR's, tape decks, monitors and storage servers.
- rodgy, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2No cheese cake on Sysadmin Day for whoever did this mess!
- LMaxey, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Thats not a problem as long as they don't cross the streams
That would be bad - bwtaha, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3Oh-Em-Gee, people that have never seen something from ten years ago because ten years ago we were going roller skating and taking girls to see movies so we could get that hand up the shirt, instead of sitting up till 4:30 drinking Bawls writing the html for wwujd.com. Don't be a dick, this picture is funny, the simple fact that that sign probably isn't necessary, if people want to think it's the Washington DC's email server when it's really a 1954 switchboard, LET THEM, dugg cause that sign is funny and i wanna know what the little lightbulb thingy floating there is
- protogenxl, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1The Droplight Hanging from the wires is a nice touch
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