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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
  • Your college intern mistakenly thinks he is in his dorm room.-- Greg Haverdink
  • Your Google box starts playing a new song - the Barney "Clean-up" song. -- Joe Jackson
  • You realize that Bob, the guy who took last month's tapes to off-site storage and then quit, didn't actually quit when he finally
    digs himself out of the pile of tapes that caved in on him. Luckily, he survived by scraping the cheese off of 6 month's worth of
    old pizza boxes! -- Joe Jackson
  • Most of the "bugs" go away as soon as the case is removed. -- Daniel E. Stafne
  • The new kid wants to know which one of the coax cables he can use to get HBO. -- Terry Bainter
  • That's a server room? I thought it was a storage closet. -- Eric Williams
  • You found the IBM AS/400 repair tech that you THOUGHT never showed up - and the 400 hasn't been turned on in over 4 years. -- Carol Hammond
  • The server room housekeeper gets hazardous duty pay. -- Nick Nielsen
  • Your UPS is powered by the pull chain light bulb switch - in the storage room next door. -- Rick Nichols
  • There is a coffee cup sitting on the router rack with a bio hazard placard on it. -- Rick Nichols
  • Your boss is still sending you email from his AOL 6 account. -- Rick Nichols
  • You discover the system works better when you dump coffee into the Exchange server. -- Rick Nichols
  • Your daily reminder tells you to check for Y2K computability. -- Rick Nichols
  • That spare twenty foot of CAT 5 cable keeps winding it's self around you - and SQUEEZING! -- Rick Nichols
  • The only users manuals you can find start with Welcome to Apple. -- Rick Nichols
  • Looking for Backup Tapes reveals your 1975 collection of 8-tracks. -- Rick Nichols
  • You mark out the path to your desk with dayglo paint - just in case. -- Rick Nichols
  • Local Distribution mail is left in the hall, cause no-one wants to step into "The Jungle". -- Rick Nichols
  • You receive a certified letter from the dust bunnies, demanding a discount since they've been stuck at CY1999/2000 IT real estate rates. -- Diane Stapley
  • Net Server just arrived in the mail, and the server room has not changed since you finished upgrading to Windows 2000 Server. -- Steve Clark
  • The arc between the server cabinets looks like a Jacob's Ladder from old Frankenstein movies. -- Alan Hollaway
  • The mice carry away you twinkies while you monitor a server reboot. -- Greg Martin
  • You don't need Post-Its anymore... a plain piece of paper sticks to the racks just fine thanks to all that spilled coffee, cola, etc. -- Dave Baldwin
  • The temperature in your server box is the same as your boss's forehead: 212F -- Wilbur McGillicuddy
  • You find that one of the servers was designed by Charles Babbage. -- Bradley Ross

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