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The story told by Orin Thomas of the WindowsITPro made me laugh. It’s a funny story although there’s a lesson from it too.

The story is about an XBox used by an Education Institution as Web Server for the Philosophy Students Web projects.

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. This unorthodox platform was chosen because one of the techs was a Linux enthusiast and had convinced the powers that be that a cheap web server solution for this subject could be implemented using an X-Box rather than a standard PC or server. Grateful to save Money where they could, the project was approved.(Source)

After many years, the new manager thought the xBox was there because the previous techs played this during ease time, disconnect it from the system and brought home for his son.

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 hadn�t 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. (ibid)

Read the story here.

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