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Grab a Mop and Bucket: Page 2 of 3

Afternoon everyone, As promised, we've "swept up" all the entries from this issue's last mile that just couldn't fit on the back page. Top 11 signs your server room needs a spring cleaning. The latest copy of Win 3.11 is...
May 30, 2003
  • The duct tape is no longer sticking -- Tom Obright
  • Staff from other departments have put curtains on the server room window... from the outside. -- Tom Obright
  • All those boxes labelled IBM PC AT -- Tom Obright
  • Everyone compliments you on your suspended floor system, but you didn't install one. -- Tom Obright
  • That tech you sent in there two days ago? He hasn't been seen since, although somebody did find one of his shoes under a rack -- Duke Walls
  • You are having a rewiring party and you have come across some 300 baud modems - and they are still hooked up and in use. -- Fred Ensminger
  • One of your servers which has been running for three years just crashed but no one can find it. -- Charles Pagelsen
  • You need a satellite photo to find your way out of this maze! Let me out, plea........ thud. -- Adi Cernea
  • Someone's unclaimed leftovers have evolved to the point where they've discovered fire. -- Cindy Byers
  • The servers sent me an e-mail and said not to pay the ransom, they already escaped...to the hallway! -- Steve Harvey
  • The top item on my to-do list is to find my other to-do lists. -- Frederick Lee
  • The server's beards reach the floor. -- Eric Allen
  • The servers are demanding their pensions. -- Eric Allen
  • The network wiring is all dust bunny grey instead of blue. -- Eric Allen
  • When the A/C comes on there's a dust bunny blizzard. -- Eric Allen
  • There are still shrinkwraped copies of Windows for Workgroups Skip Barry
  • You notice that those flowers came FROM the server, and not a secret admirer from cubicle 32B. -- Marvin Duran
  • You put and ad in the paper for server admin that reads: "CSI experience a must-have." -- Marvin Duran
  • A sign on the racks reads: "WMD inside" instead of the usual "Intel inside". -- Marvin Duran
  • "Clean the server room? Yes, Sir! As soon as I remember where it is." -- Marvin Duran
  • Oh, I thought that was a storage room. -- Trent A. Bontly
  • Your Windows has streaks and splotches. -- Mark Jass
  • The donut and bagel wrappers are swirling around behind the server exhausts like those fall leaves you didn't rake. -- Mark Jass
  • Dead mice are found in the tangles of patch cables. -- James Smallwood
  • Your server with the JavaBeans source has sprouted. -- Mark Jass
  • Someone plugged the lights on the company christmas tree in to your router. -- Robert W. Foster
  • When working with Stratus one of our customers was debating whether they should move their existing Stratus systems or buy new ones.
    Stratus system are fully fault tolerant mainframe style systems and are depended on to keep the most critical environments online.
    So while looking at one of the systems the customer pulled a CPU board for inspection, and everything looked fine.
    However, when he pushed the board back in the system abruptly crashed. It was determined that a dust bunny had fallen in
    between the board socket contacts and shorted out the system?.they decided to buy all new gear?.as we called it,
    ?the million dollar dust bunny?. At the new data center you could eat off the floor ?lesson learned! -- John Morelock
  • The switch rack looks like a spaghetti bomb went off all over it with multi grain colored strands! Ain't it pretty! -- Ken Cottrill
  • The server changes it's own screen saver to "Dust Me"! -- Tim Peters
  • You can't see the floor through the pile of patch cords, printouts, and parts. -- Roger Bigney

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