• jb (unregistered)

    Could be worse: My last job had the microwave and coffee maker in the rest room.

    I went out for lunch.

  • tech (unregistered)

    At an old job, I was forced to install a server at a car dealership, in a room with no lighting, and under the trap door for the roof. Which didn't close properly. A week later it rained.

    I'm glad I no longer work there! And the dealership went out of business!

  • zerrodefex (unregistered) in reply to Erzengel
    Erzengel:

    If we want to be thorough, we need to make sure it's secure, well ventilated, free of water or other liquids, in a non-corosive environment, and in a low-radiation zone.

    So much for installing it next to the reactor then.

  • dave_L (unregistered) in reply to exsystemadmin
    exsystemadmin:
    Judging by the high quality and bottom-less budget looks of the inside of the trailer my guess is, this guys manager told him to go "install" a server at this construction site. Im sure the admin asked "where exactly?" His managers reply was "it doesnt matter just get it up and running." Typically, installs like this are a result of several things and or a combination of: 1. Two bit, uneducated, hill jacks that know nothing about running a efficient IT system are attempting to do just that. 2. Small time low budget firms are giving the IT department little to work with and dont understand the requirements to provide the IT staff with approriate materials or an appropriate IT staff period. Hence result number one. 3. Being the construction site that it is, The crapper is probably the only structure with a lock. Anyways, just a guess, I've seen worse setups.
    ...Funny though, the hillbillies, small time firms mentioned and that Men's room... they're still an upscale lot. I happen to work for a giant Philippine conglomerate that has under it's wing a nationally known airline & a dominant tobacco manufacturing arms. When written request for partial equipment upgrades were tabled for the group's foremost legal unit, request for a couple of new data server for centralized archive function...one of the co-vice chairman/owner procrastinated on that couple of equipments purchase for more than 12 months just for a misplaced notion that his executive female assistant overheard the supposed request as to be a full automation project in paperless archiving system. That assistant was so apprehensive on automations cause she was worried that finding informations in digital form was so cumbersome, unlike the manual processes. See?
  • Colin Genitals, Project Manager (unregistered)

    But... but... I tried my best. I was told that the server operators needed to be able to back up and truncate a log. As usual, your technical jargon got in the way of my prolific management expertise.

  • JaJa (unregistered) in reply to 00101010

    What about the clicks needed to login and open your browser too?

    Captcha: creative; well I try.

  • Anonymous (unregistered) in reply to tin
    tin:
    Clearly it's been put in the right place... It's a Dell box running Windows. What better place for such a collection of crap?
    I agree. The real WTF is that someone would pay $15,000 for it.
  • (cs)

    Maybe the PM just reads Terry Pratchett books and tried to create a real life Hex, complete with resident mouse and "++?????++ Out of Cheese Error. Redo From Start." error messages.

  • (cs)

    Non olet (I say, looking at the remote desktop connecting to that server from somewhere else)

  • Dave (not the "not that one" guy but also not the 1st) (unregistered) in reply to Dave (not that one)
    Dave (not that one):
    Yeah, but on the bright side it makes flushing the cache very easy.

    Yeah, I hope they remembered to "log off" at the end of the day too..

  • cristali (unregistered)

    It's a Dell,

    Swap the pan with the server and get a 10 fold increase in performance

  • Compton_Effect (unregistered)

    I was once involved in a IT project in Lesotho (Small landlocked banana republic in South Africa) A local company had won the tender for the network installation. First question we asked them when seeing the schematics - 'Why are there network points in the bathrooms?' Right next to each toilet.

  • PoodleMomma (unregistered) in reply to John

    Great point; this is exactly why they did not figure out that this is not a real secure location. I can see it now; they are too busy working out there with their ass crack showing, and the boss is holding the key to the shitter.

  • rGT (unregistered)

    Hey, look! It's one of those new, fancy Nancy urinals, Bob! I've heard of these... they let you watch TV while you pee! Wowwww... we're goin' up in the world!

  • peipkraak (unregistered) in reply to James Schend
    James Schend:
    Why do I have to click 4 times just to see the comment with articles? Man, I understand trying to increase pageviews for advertising purposes, but that's plain ridiculous. Why not just show one word at a time with "Next Word >>" at the bottom? It'd be quicker.
    Yup, annoying
  • (cs)

    Wow - convenient to dump core and keep it tidy!

  • (cs) in reply to James Schend
    James Schend:
    I guess it's three clicks. Click to get the full article on the main page, then click to see the comments, then click to expand the article (which inexplicably made itself invisible when I viewed the comments.)

    Either way, it's ridiculous compared to the 1 click it was last week to get the same result.

    It's not that complicated if you can read.

    Just check the box at the top of the main page that says "Display full text" (or similar wording). Then read the full article on the main page, and click the comments link at the bottom of the article when you're done.

  • (cs)

    At a previous place of employment, the several hundred square foot server room was on the first floor, right below the second floor executive rest room. Being the executive rest room, the toilets plugged up at least once a month and the resulting yellow/brown liquid would leak through the ceiling into the server room.

    Top that... :-}

  • Lorenzo (unregistered) in reply to Patrick

    In response to "I wonder where that is. Cold air doesn't come from the outside"

    ... if it's winter time in Montana then it does ;)

  • b0x0rz (unregistered)

    this is not the daily wtf - this is the daily mad man!

  • Great Idea (unregistered)

    Crap and Hack at the same time.

  • Neal (unregistered) in reply to John
    John:
    Do you seriously think construction workers know how to "hack"?

    No, but their saws do.

  • guest (unregistered)

    Is that sox compliant? I don't think so...

  • Fergal (unregistered) in reply to whardier
    whardier:
    Hehehehe.. uh.. yeh.. durh it be cold in here I wunder why..

    Server in office = hot office. Hole in floor of head = Chilled peripherals Server in head = warm enviroment. Playboy wallpaper = warm and pleasnat environment.etc etc Problems with server = not in my remit.....

  • Michael (unregistered) in reply to Patrick
    Patrick:
    I wonder where this was? Typically cold air doesn't come in from outside...

    Ahhh... I know what has happened here..... Patrick must be in some sort of living hell.

  • ?? (unregistered) in reply to Dev

    I hope you are kidding with your response. If not, and you are a systems admin you might want to find a different career path.

    Whats to keep someone from spilling something on the server while it is in production? Or what is to keep someone from taking a hard drive or two or three out of the server and leaving with all the data?

  • chocobot (unregistered) in reply to Saladin
    Saladin:
    What part of "men's room in a construction site trailer" implies "secure" to you?
    Security by obscurity. What hacker would look in the restroom to find the server?
  • Reed (unregistered)

    Looks like it just happens to be next to the power/phone system there, and that's why he chose it.

    It certainly sounds well ventilated.

    At least they put it on a raised platform in case of toilet overflow!!

  • (cs)

    (insert standard Windoze and Toilet joke here)

  • nunu (unregistered)

    thats crazy.what ever happenned to common sense.

  • nunu (unregistered)

    thats crazy.what ever happenned to common sense.

  • 2cynical (unregistered)

    They have an operational issue as well. No one is maintaining the toilet paper roll.

  • Stewart Dean (unregistered)

    Well, there was the NYTimes article on the early day of importing large systems to mainland China.
    #1: Acct engineer specified a raised floor, 1.5' high. The Chinese listened carefully, took notes...and when the install team appeared at the site, there it was: 1.5' of poured concrete. #2: Terminal is on the fritz. Account engineer flies in, pulls off all the covers, goes to the other side of the server room, returns to find a charwoman (janitress, I dunno) has meterialized out of thin air and is busily scrubbing the accumulated dush bunnies out of the innards with a dripping wet rag.

    This was all long ago. The Chinese are now eating our breakfast and lunch and planning on our dinner...and doing a good job of it.........

  • m. ranyart (unregistered)

    My boss (a former programmer, now owner of a small retail store) has our huge server computer set up in our employee bathroom. Its name is Jesus, which has led to various "Jesus auto-saves" jokes around the office.

    I'm glad to see that others are making the smart choice to install servers next to toilets!

  • Pokemom (unregistered)

    the real WTF is that the toilet seat is down...

  • Kenshin (unregistered) in reply to Dev

    You are a fucking moron!

  • Ollie Jones (unregistered)

    Hmmm. I have a friend who sets up IT equipment for public agencies in various old buildings in Europe.

    When there's no other space, he puts servers and network gear in locked cabinets securely bolted to walls above the doors in the womens's bathrooms. He uses this site because the bathrooms are well-ventilated and near utility columns.

    He told me nobody has ever messed with these cabinets. He once put one in a mens' room. People did mess around with that one!

  • Hexscyn (unregistered)

    I don't see the problem, Heck it looks like a perfectly good place for a Dell to be :)

  • Hexscyn (unregistered)

    Besides now I can read the daily Blog while I'm leaving my daily Log :) [email protected]

    If you found this comment to be too offinsive email I'll put your thoughts right next to the server for "safe Keeping" or at least until someone runs out of paper.

  • noname (unregistered) in reply to KenW
    KenW:
    James Schend:
    I guess it's three clicks. Click to get the full article on the main page, then click to see the comments, then click to expand the article (which inexplicably made itself invisible when I viewed the comments.)

    Either way, it's ridiculous compared to the 1 click it was last week to get the same result.

    It's not that complicated if you can read.

    Just check the box at the top of the main page that says "Display full text" (or similar wording). Then read the full article on the main page, and click the comments link at the bottom of the article when you're done.

    The problem with that is I only save cookies for the session, so I'd have to click it again every day. If I could also add it as a query parameter to the URL I'd have nothing to gripe about.

  • Pat Legacy (unregistered)

    These people should not even be allowed to know what a server is, let alone see one, or own one. People this stupid... never cease to amaze me.

  • Anonymous (unregistered) in reply to emurphy
    emurphy:
    Tom Gellhaus:
    I'm not an expert but I DO know that having physical access to a server makes hacking, or installing rootkits etc, MUCH easier (than attempting to break in from a "remote" location).

    Here are just a few of the fun things you can do with physical access:

    (1) Reboot it with a boot disk that gives you root access to the hard drive (2) Steal the entire box, take it home, hack at it at leisure (3) Smash the entire box to pieces

    Or (4) Attach a keystroke logger, disconnect the LAN cable (but leave it in the NIC port, just not seated properly) and wait for an admin to log on locally to troubleshoot it...

    CAPTCHA - craptastic (appropriately)

  • annoynimous (unregistered)

    Oh, i remember that classical story of IBM AS/400 beeing lost during house rebuilding but still working for years, until next house rebuilding found some no-more-doors 2sq.meters room filled with garbage and a server.

    IBM proudly used this story as a sign of their )capthca following:) quality. I wonder what copmpany would use toilet story to advertise their juicy servers? :D

  • Nilda (unregistered)

    I just wondered how everyone went and did their 'jobs' without toilet paper!

  • Turdblossom (unregistered)

    There is a turd splatter readily visible on the toiler. Deeeeelicious.

  • Paul (unregistered)

    All you ZOMG BATHROOM dumbasses whining about this are pussies. Sometimes you just have to get things done. If that happened to be the best place in the trailer, then so be it. I think the OP is trying to impress with huge monetary figures, but so fucking what.

    I like having a server room, but sometimes you just gotta make do.

  • Todd (unregistered)

    I just noticed that they are probably breaking the law here as well. This is a handicap accessible bathroom - and the server platform is conveniently in the spot someone in a wheelchair would need to maneuver in in order to use the facilities. Talk about a shitty job.

    At least their cabling looks to be fairly neat and tidy, at least the telco stuff.

  • Lanny Herlan (unregistered)

    Looks like the mices got to the toilet paper, too, which might help to explain at least some of the droppings. If the room is not secure enough to guarantee toilet paper, why did the manager assume it to be a "secure area?"

  • Rob (unregistered)

    What's more secure then the sanctity of your own bathroom?

  • (unregistered) in reply to Dave (not that one)
    Dave (not that one):
    Yeah, but on the bright side it makes flushing the cache very easy.

    True, but they're also flushing the cash they spent on the thing.

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