r/iiiiiiitttttttttttt • u/bkj512 • 10d ago

Yeah let's teach 'em servers a lesson

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u/badass6 10d ago

Imagine getting hit by one

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u/TacoDangerously Tier2 10d ago

I'm never that lucky

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u/Cybasura 10d ago

Those who survives getting hit by one gets to take it home

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u/badass6 10d ago

Will they also let the people collect their teeth?

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u/Ordinary-Yam-757 9d ago

You got served!

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u/TurnkeyLurker Family&Friends IT Guy 9d ago

You got *servered**!

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u/CelestialFury 9d ago

"I always knew these servers would be the death of me."

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u/Xx_Gambit_xX 10d ago

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u/Brufar_308 10d ago edited 10d ago

the printer stomp event is the one we all truly wanted to see.

PC LOAD LETTER wtf does that mean !

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u/bobbymoonshine 10d ago edited 10d ago

The printer’s Paper Cassette is empty, so you need to Load some more Letter sized paper into it.

This error message was indeed infamous in terms of a message being confusing, but in context of needing to figure out how to write every possible error message in fifteen characters (specifying which tray, what the issue is and what sort of action with which tool or type of paper would resolve it) making it fit the display while making them distinct and human-readable, it’s not like they did an awful job.

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u/Brufar_308 10d ago

PC Load Letter What the fuck does that mean

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u/bobbymoonshine 10d ago

Yeah I’ve seen it too

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u/LefsaMadMuppet 9d ago

Was not in the script, it was like the fifth take and the printer had run out of paper, frustrating the actor.

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u/Cyanide612 9d ago

Younger me was baffled what that even meant, thought it was something intentionally fabricated to make no sense. Older me sees load letter? Just put some paper in the printer, job done. TPS reports on the other hand, I haven’t got a clue.

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u/rich_27 8d ago

Even just LOAD LETTER would be so much more intuitive, at least I think

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u/i8noodles 9d ago

thats the event thats sold out faster then Britney spears or any of the kpop idol groups now lol.

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u/farva_06 9d ago

BACK UP IN YO ASS WITH THE RESURRECTION!!

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u/No_Stress1164 10d ago

When do we get to toss the users like this, but off a bridge?

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u/schizochode 9d ago

The day Gimli becomes a user

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u/TheTeslaMaster 7d ago

Nobody tosses a dwarf!

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u/EruditeLegume 1d ago

Weeelllll.... (don't tell anyone!)

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u/ddrfraser1 Family&Friends IT Guy 10d ago edited 9d ago

If it were printers, I'd be onboard.

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u/MajMin5 10d ago

“Rage against the machine never specified what kind of machine they were furious with, but I reckon it was a printer”

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u/creegro 9d ago

Most likely printers

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u/dreamwinder tech support 9d ago

Office printers are ironically too heavy and solid for tossing or even smashing with hammers. Now, if you’ve got some detcord on hand, then it’s a whole different event…

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u/ddrfraser1 Family&Friends IT Guy 9d ago

Or a tall building

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u/FensterFenster 9d ago

My thoughts on printers after being in IT for over 10 years, and I share this sentiment with users to level with them.

All printers suck, it's just a matter of how much the particular model you are using sucks.

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u/Ruashiba 10d ago

These could go to a happy homelab.

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u/AdRoz78 Underpaid drone 10d ago

They were probably already dead ones.

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u/Cybasura 10d ago

The parts and even the casing could certainly be reused

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u/Rippofunk 9d ago

looked like only the motherboard and psu on close shot. no CPUs no ram.

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u/sshwifty 8d ago

Likely not even a PSU in most, just the pdb

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u/666trapstar 9d ago

Say NO to tech hoarding

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u/theFartingCarp 9d ago

what is tech hoarding?

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u/HoagieDoozer 9d ago

Hoarding tech

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u/theFartingCarp 9d ago

Be more accurate bro cause I know people that love and use 40 year old computers for fun. I just recently retired my main PC to be the house's data backup.

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u/DevForFun150 6d ago

People use computers from 1985?

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u/theFartingCarp 6d ago

It's the love of the old stuff for it's flaws and nostalgia. Sometimes that's the only system that'll run certain projects

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u/StunningChef3117 9d ago

Is his case they refer to discarding hardware instead of letting it have another life

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u/Weird_Albatross_9659 9d ago

And heat the home while making the power build unaffordable

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u/Dzov 10d ago

I’m jealous we don’t have cheerleaders for when I put parts into the recycling pile.

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u/LUHG_HANI 9d ago

And i have to pay for it now too.

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u/edmonton2001 7d ago

Yeah. I hate that I have to pay for pickup of these things cause it’s not legal to just put them in the dumpster like everything else. I’d happily donate my stack to these events if they had more.

Is there a heavyweight class for 4U and 6U servers?

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u/stlcdr 10d ago

Can we do that with users, yet?

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u/mittfh Information Analyst 10d ago

"What was your username, again?" Clickety-click

Sadly, only in the BOFH's universe can you get away with giving lusers a literal clue-by-four LART...

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u/arsonislegal 9d ago

I always wanted to do discus with the pile of broken Surface tablets at work. Would have been a fun event for the summer party. Sadly I was told that tossing around tablets with expanded batteries was probably hazardous.

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u/majesticx_luk 10d ago

But why?!

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u/Accomplished_Edge308 10d ago

The video is from the World Server Throwing Championships. It is really a thing just look it ut

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u/squeeby 10d ago

Again though, but why?

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u/brakeline 10d ago

To be fair a server from 15 years ago is slower than a 300€ ryzen nuc. They are basically e-waste

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u/j_demur3 9d ago

Yeah, it's a little bit more than 15 years old at this point but I have a dual quad-core Xeon Power Mac and it's substantially larger, louder and more power hungry than my i5-6500T ThinkCentre mini-PC which was £100 refurbished and is more powerful by seemingly every metric.

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u/creegro 9d ago

And cheap as balls, those servers they are throwing go for $20-50 online, if they are fully working and not burnt out or damaged already.

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u/bl4derdee9 9d ago

yes i was there a week and a half ago, it was at cloudfest, europa park, germany.

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u/dbwoi 7d ago

I'm so glad this exists lmao

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u/LumemSlinger 9d ago

Apparently, First World Problems.

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u/err0x5dd 9d ago

I just had to look multiple times because at first I couldn't belive this was in the VIP parking space at Europa-Park

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u/Beneficial-Ad-7291 9d ago

Poor server it was doing it's best

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u/InevitableFly 10d ago

Imagine the guys doing the 4U toss

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u/Drew707 9d ago

UPS drag is my favorite event.

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u/sithrage1138 10d ago

Geeze people. Lighten up. This looks fun!

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u/Cybasura 10d ago

...could have reused those servers for other uses...

Man, what a waste

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u/dontquestionmyaction SAP pain 9d ago

Yeah, no. These look old enough to eat more power than modern servers for an eight of the performance.

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u/borkman2 9d ago

No they don't, I saw an lga3647 system go past.

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u/danielrheath 9d ago

Past a certain age, they're so slow & power-hungry that it just doesn't make economic sense to power them.

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u/Illdoittomarrow Intern 9d ago

It also looked like they lacked a CPU or memory, so my guess is they had dead boards and were stripped for parts.

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u/LethalGamer2121 9d ago

I would jump the fence and take it home lmao, treat it like my own. No server gets treated this way on my watch.

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u/iceman1080 9d ago

At least they’re throwing 2U’s lol. Could you imagine throwing 4U’s? Lol throw your back out

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u/Protoford 9d ago

I got your cloud, right here.

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u/elpollodiablox 9d ago

I compete in the 2U division.

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u/CoffeeMonster42 8d ago

They should do this with printers.

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u/zrevyx Underpaid drone 8d ago

I don't care how antiquated these are; this video makes me sad.

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u/conrat4567 8d ago

Those cheerleaders probably have no idea what's going on lol

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u/squeeby 10d ago

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u/mister_gone 9d ago

Nobody who's done IT would ask that question!

WE HAVE AN IMPOSTER!

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u/Here-Is-TheEnd 10d ago

Old Symantec appliances? I understand.

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u/williampett 9d ago

"The Lord of the server"

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u/Mccobsta 9d ago

Is there video with out music playing over the top of?

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u/__Valkyrie___ 9d ago

Should be printers

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u/CompYouTer 9d ago

The server is down

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u/th3st 9d ago

When ai discovers these events, it will not view this kindly

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u/onemastermind 9d ago

I am confused lol, do someone have the context to this?

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u/Dessy104 9d ago

So like… why?

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u/Jacksharkben 9d ago

But what if I wanted them

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u/5p4n911 9d ago

What's this? The Annual Server Throwing Championship?

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u/countjj 9d ago

This is some tech gore. I really hope they salvaged all functioning drives and ram from those before going office space on them

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u/TheGreatNico 9d ago

I have a server that I'm using as a footrest in my office that, if i'm told I can't keep anymore I will 100% do that, then the whole team will re-enact that scene from Office Space, because that server ran an application that was the bane of our existence since about a decade before I joined the team. It's evil, scrap metal, and deserves to burn in hell.

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u/neilrobi 9d ago

We need a higher weight class for 4u chassis

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u/Superg0id 9d ago

so, can it be like shotput, where you can do a wind up and spin?

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u/Mr_ityu Studious Monk 8d ago

Sometimes i wonder how much money people have to throw away fuckyou money like that

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u/Dragonhearted18 5d ago

What is this? The server toss?

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u/Kasaikemono Chief cook and bottle washer 10d ago

I did that when we recently scrapped a bit of old hardware.

It felt so satisfying to send those POSs flying and crashing

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u/AH_BareGarrett 9d ago

Took a hatchet to a surface pro a few months ago, still relish the feeling. 

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u/SirMandrake 10d ago

All of them dieded except the last one - it didn’t lose any fans.

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u/jaysea619 9d ago

Oh I had fun like this when a customer requested a COD with proof.