Manager Borrows Xbox Brings Down Server
By Shawn on Tuesday, May 27th, 2008 at 3:29 PM PST In Game Consoles, Game Platforms, Gamer Life, Hardware, Microsoft
Philosophy students at a public university were surprised to find the college web site for their “Web pages for Philosophy students” class offline. After “the excrement encountered the rotary cooling device,” the administrator went to check the server, an Xbox running a variant of Linux, and found it missing.
Puzzled, the admin tracked down the new manager to report the Xbox missing. The manager had to admit that he had taken it home for his son to play. It was just up on the shelf looking unused or so the guy thought. It didn’t take long for him to run home and recover the college’s server which the admin plastered with “This is actually a server” labels all across the console.
I wonder how long it will take the university to find a new manager.
via Windows IT Pro
That is awesome! Didn’t think I would hear about consoles running as a server. Just glad it wasn’t a 360 then I guess because you would be screwed if it did that red ring of death thing.
~Death Dream~
Nice. I didn’t know you can run an xbox as a server.