QuotePublic Universities are always running on a limited budget which means they sometimes come up with "innovative" solutions. A couple of years back, an X-Box with some variant of Linux installed had been put in the server room to support a subject designed to teach computer-illiterate Philosophy students how to build their own web pages.
Five weeks into the "Web pages for Philosophy students" class [this year] the excrement encountered the rotary cooling device. The IT departments help desk started receiving calls from Philosophy students who were unable to access their web projects.
Flummoxed, the help desk staff escalated the job ticket to the Unix administrator. Unable to remotely access the X-Box, he trotted off to the server room. He was surprised to find that the X-Box was no longer present.
The administrator went down to the new managers office to report the missing X-Box. The new manager was quiet for a moment and then sheepishly informed the administrator that it was he who had removed the X-Box. The manager had thought the X-Box was just a games console that the IT departments staff used for recreation when it got quiet. Noticing that the X-Box hadnt been moved from the server room for some time and that his son was going to be at home on school holidays for the next two weeks, the manager decided to take the X-Box home so that his son would have something to entertain himself with. The manager then drove home and retrieved the X-Box. The administrator got a labeling machine and plastered the words "This is actually a server" all across the console.
Windowsitpro (http://www.windowsitpro.com/Article/ArticleID/50428/The_website_is_down_because_someone_removed_the_XBox.html)
The idiot could be sacked for theft, people have lost their jobs for much less.
thread needs a rofflcopter tbh !
and hes the manager, he won;t have any problems unless hes completely useless tbh.
it would explain a few things if my uni is running servers off Linuxed X-Boxes. For example, why you can never get hold of the IT staff, they must be "testing" one of the servers.