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- TGMD, on 05/25/2008, -2/+484I think the funny part of the story is that the manager was stealing school equipment...
"What's this a video game system?, I better take it"
There's a life lesson here: Keep your greedy hands off. - inactive, on 05/25/2008, -63/+425"Public Universities are always running on a limited budget"
That's a shame considering that the US has an inmensive military budget. - Jericon, on 05/25/2008, -9/+296Dugg for one line: " the excrement encountered the rotary cooling device." Classic
- FDL1, on 05/25/2008, -34/+258May 28, 2006
Digg me down. - Prototek, on 05/25/2008, -5/+114At least he admitted it and brought it back but he is still unscrupulous.
- emmanuelsotelo, on 05/25/2008, -2/+111Dugg for "computer-illiterate Philosophy students".
- antonio97b, on 05/25/2008, -0/+72Old article, but Cant help but think the new manager was a douchebag.
IF it was for playing games when things got slow, was it his right to take it home so his son can play with it? The manager didn't buy it, he just stole it from the room. - polynode, on 05/25/2008, -3/+68Dugg because linux will run on toasters.
- SEANWOOKIE, on 05/25/2008, -103/+163LIES! No one can move an X-Box! It is hueg!
- Skaidon, on 05/25/2008, -9/+62I haven't heard it before so it must be old enough to re-digg :D.
- pintomp3, on 05/25/2008, -3/+49thus proving the need to improve public education.
- tardmaster, on 05/25/2008, -4/+48Not just old. Already made the front page. http://digg.com/linux_unix/This_website_is_down_be ...
Maybe we will beat the old record of 1870 diggs. - furo, on 05/25/2008, -2/+46So, it would appear that Digg has become a refuge for articles dated in 2006. And this made the technology front page. I can get over that, I suppose.
What I can't let slide is the fact that an institution of higher learning, charged with preparing our youth for entering the working adult world, can't be bothered with proper systems documentation, such that succeeding support staff will have an understanding of the resources for which they are responsible.
Furthermore, why would a "manager" (particularly a new manager) ever think it was a good idea to touch anything within a server room, regardless of how benign it might seem? He's not there to perform hands-on, so he must be hands-off. No exceptions. Yes, I do believe there should be no exceptions to that policy in a typical environment where there is a clear management/staff boundary. Too many times, an administrator has been made to jump through hoops because a manager moved something they considered to be in the way.
I was once called to a site because of an offline server. A manager closed the front panel of a server because he was running a tour and didn't think it looked good. Problem is, when that panel was closed, the latch rested up against a ribbon cable connector that was loose and took out the RAID array. It was obviously a poor design for which we had identified a workaround until the vendor could come in and replace the necessary components. It's the little nuggets of information that the hands-off people just can't stay up to speed with, will never remember and for which documentation is useless because they never look at such things to that level of detail. It's not their job. - m00nstone, on 05/25/2008, -2/+39Long live xbox modding!
- fasda, on 05/25/2008, -4/+40It also isn't helped by the fact that all the cool research equipment is too expensive, there has been a general down turn in the economey for several years causing tax revenue to fall and finally universities always pinch pennies.
- EtherGnat, on 05/25/2008, -2/+36You left out an apostrophe, just sayin'.
- Malnilion, on 05/25/2008, -0/+34This is just more proof that most people should stay out of server rooms. It was an honest mistake, but I'd be pissed if I was a student who was unable to put my website out on that server and I couldn't figure out why.
- soogy, on 05/25/2008, -0/+28I would have been pretty pissed at him for stealing equipment. For a second there, I thought the story was going to have a turn for the worse with them discovering the Xbox wiped with XBMC installed.
I thought the end was quite funny though:
'The administrator got a labeling machine and plastered the words “This is actually a server” all across the console.' - GreenAlien, on 05/25/2008, -4/+30Well spotted. Undugg and buried as dupe.
We need a better way to bring stories back up. Maybe "On this day last year the top 10 stories were..." kind of thing. - VegaObscura, on 05/25/2008, -4/+29Dug up. This is worlds of old. Thanks, for the flashback, guys--I remember reading this--you know--when it was happening--two years ago.
- WolverineBlue, on 05/25/2008, -2/+27Well, it's awfully hard to get an unlimited budget...
- cj485, on 05/25/2008, -9/+34yes. so "hueg" in fact, you cannot even move it.
- RMoore08, on 05/25/2008, -4/+28"Xbox"
- megamod, on 05/25/2008, -0/+23Am I the only one that wishes there was a picutre of the x-box with the labels "all over the console" "This is actually a server"? Maybe I lack imagination but even a photoshopped image of that would do.
- Greengoo, on 05/25/2008, -1/+24Oh. "The ***** hit the fan".
I seriously didn't get this till now, the THIRD time I read it. I'm a ***** moron. - weeeezzll, on 05/25/2008, -0/+23"the manager decided to take the X-Box home so that his son would have something to entertain himself with. "
Borrow it for the weekend? What a load of *****! What games was his son going to play? He was stealing that XBox plain and simple. He had no business taking anything from the server room home with him. I would fire him if he worked for me. - fanboydcs, on 05/25/2008, -2/+23Wow I read this article a long long time ago. I am part of the xbox-linux.org team and I remember posting an article about this on that site. Now the only way to see that reference is on archive.org.
- Ocelot13, on 05/25/2008, -8/+29too bad the ps3 is bigger.
- redwallhp, on 05/25/2008, -1/+19Those Windows toasters really suck. They lock-up and burn your toast, they give you the Blue Toast of Death, they're full of security holes, and Microsoft's weekly patches always interrupt your toasting, demanding a restart.
- purzzzell, on 05/25/2008, -5/+20you're a towel.
- RyeBrye, on 05/25/2008, -2/+17FTA: "the excrement encountered the rotary cooling device."
Ok. No more thesaurus for you. A cliche is still a cliche - regardless of how you dress it up. - u8eR, on 05/25/2008, -2/+17Could make for a good urban legend, without the name of the university and all that other good ambiguous stuff.
- john2kx, on 05/25/2008, -2/+17Yeah, he should have gone with an overpowered, overpriced server to host like 20 webpages that no one ever visits.
- GuyHersh, on 05/25/2008, -2/+17Wait what? After you turn 360 degrees, you'd be facing the xbox again. Learn your degrees dude.
- digitul, on 05/25/2008, -0/+14yes xbox is big. thank you 2003
- theone3, on 05/25/2008, -3/+17thesaurus ftw!
- LansingSterling, on 05/25/2008, -2/+15with the tuition fees the universities are charging this days they should be able to afford an entry level server.
- LeeSoong, on 05/25/2008, -1/+14X-Box, geez, I wish my department had your budget -
we run our whole network on a ball of twine with a Coleco Vision as the web server. - SharkyTech, on 05/25/2008, -2/+15He saw an Xbox, thought to himself "Oh yes, those slack IT staff, playing games on my time", and then took it home for personal benefit.
It's an Xbox we're talking about, not a stapler. - sl123000, on 05/25/2008, -0/+13Thank god it's not 37 times bigger.
- Ocelot13, on 05/25/2008, -0/+12yeah, lets compare the power of different gen consoles. makes lots a sense.
- john2kx, on 05/25/2008, -5/+17An xbox is several hundred dollars cheaper than a server, and is a perfect platform for handling the webpages of a few students.
- NeverReturnKid, on 05/25/2008, -1/+13Most funding for STATE schools come from the states and not the Federal govt...
- cumic, on 05/25/2008, -1/+12I'd like companies out of everyone's education, rather than kicking off the government (that should be a representation of the society). Hey, but that should be very difficult in the USA, because the companies that support the whopping politic campaigns are much more important than the votes!
And about "protecting the country", one thing is civil protection (police) and another thing is militar "protection", which takes the biggest piece of the budget pie. And why? Yeah, to serve these companies agendas... - hagfish70, on 05/25/2008, -1/+12WTF?
- coltraning, on 05/25/2008, -2/+12This kind of story always bugs me. I hate it when a new manager comes in and tries to change everything without at least asking the people who are already familiar with the day-to-day operations of a project or a store WHY things are done the way they are done. Change for the pure sake of change isn't always necessarily a good thing. Sometimes things are done a certain way for a good reason. Didn't that ever occur to this guy?
Also, this manager is a thief. He removed an X-Box that wasn't his from a server room at a public university and gave it to his kid to play with. How exactly does he justify that? - mattvander, on 05/25/2008, -1/+10i like turtles. just sayin'.
- Wrathernaut, on 05/25/2008, -0/+9Considering that it appears he was one of few people with access to the room, it wouldn't take a genius to find him out.
- SillyRabbits, on 05/25/2008, -10/+19""Public Universities are always running on a limited budget"
That's a shame considering that the US has an inmensive military budget."
Spoken like somebody that doesn't have any idea how large of a budget many public universities operate under. Just because they don't fund everybody's little pet project, it doesn't mean there's an actual shortage of funds. Also, given the fact that most universities send pallets full of computers to surplus every week (which are free to university personal for any on-campus work), the only reason to really be using an x-box is just for the novelty. - da_bradler, on 05/25/2008, -1/+9It's been a while since the US military has done any actual protecting of the nation. You're military budget is pretty much entirely invasion focused, that's why almost all over nations are capable of having small military budgets and keeping there boarders protected, the only reason you would need a big military is either to invade another country or to protect yourself from the United states military.
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