When Servers Explode 142
1sockchuck writes "Have you ever lost your patience with a server? We're not sure who was the first person to intentionally blow up a server, but plenty of others have followed in their footsteps, and many seem to have captured the event on video. The Gallery of Exploding Servers documents the sometimes incendiary relationship between man and machine. Those who prefer a kinder, gentler disposition may prefer the guide to Flying and Crashing Servers."
It happens sometimes (Score:5, Funny)
Servers just explode. Natural causes.
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It happened to me (Score:5, Interesting)
I used to admin this rickety old voicemail system which had been set up (by someone else, mind you) on a generic ("white box") DOS PC with a million cards sticking out of it.
One day, I came in to the office to complaints that the voicemail was down. I found the machine unresponsive, so rebooted it. I suspected the drive wasn't spinning because I didn't hear much sound coming from it. Due to loud noise in the closet, I held my ear to the box to listen better.
As I set my head against the server, the true problem became painfully evident... the cooling fan had stopped spinning, the PC had completely overheated, and it chose that moment for the power supply to literally explode from the heat. A plume of pure white smoke came out with a loud popping sound... My ear was ringing for hours afterward.
OK, so it didn't actually tear apart into tiny pieces, but it did effectively blow up.
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Yep, I've actually heard a XT-PC power supply blew up in the office once. It sounded like a gun that went off. So when I went to see what happened all I saw was white smoke coming from the PC. I was like, "Ok, I guess I'll have to order a new power supply for it". LOL
Re:It happens sometimes (Score:4, Funny)
Servers just explode. Natural causes.
Psst....you're doing it wrong...
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Yeah, I guess we all stole something today. (Score:5, Funny)
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No. I stole something else.
Like the websites bandwidth? Slashdotted already. (And yes, I get the reference.)
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Stole your working time, by posting here?
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Re:Snow crashes? (Score:5, Informative)
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Sometimes programs would lose their minds.
Don't do that Dave.
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In the old days, when we liked to have an onion in our belts, because it was fashionable than, the Z-80 processor that drove our computer was the same that drove the video, i.e., took the bytes from the video memory and generated the corresponding image in the CRT. So, if you crashed the processor very badly, and it stopped responding to video interrupts, then your image generator could go "out". If it was connected to an RF generator (which was also fashionable at the day), it could turn that off also, and
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On a semi related note, I once was told that on some very early Commodore models (with embedded display), you could control the CRT drawing hardware pretty much directly - which means you could reduce the electron beam to a single pixel and scan the whole display with it. Presto! Burnt display!
I always took that anecdote with a grain of salt, but could anyone confirm (or deny) this? A web search turned up with pretty much nothing...
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Murphy's LOL (Score:1)
I believe the correct phrasing should be, "When Servers Asplode."
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[Second page, movie one] -> "Now thÃts CLOUD COMPUTING!!!"
I laughed my ass off XD
Where there some dells that had bad caps that burn (Score:2)
Where there some dells that had bad caps that burned down?
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Sure there were. I had some PowerEdge 1Us do that (1650??). BANG and smokesmell (not much actual smoke) is *never* your friend in the server room.
A Little Late to the Game (Score:5, Funny)
There aren't many things (you can do at work) that are as satisfying as throwing an NT box off a roof...
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There aren't many things (you can do at work) that are as satisfying as throwing an NT box off a roof...
Sure there are: Throwing the boss that made you get an NT box in the first place off a roof ...
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My boss and I at a previous job tossed over 50 old WYSE dummy terminals (that had been sitting in a back room for years) in to a long dumpster to free up storage space. Shot putting old terminals was a great work out, made spectacular shattering noises, and made for great sport seeing who could toss them the furthest. Yes, the dumpster was marked for hazardous waste disposal, before anyone asks.
Whole company shoulda been marked for hazardous waste disposal too, but that's another story.
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Throwing a A href="http://www.etypewriters.com/mag-card-II.JPG">Mag Card off the roof.
Magnificent.
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I ran Netware servers for years. I have this sneaking suspicion that a Netware 4.11 server would probably have survived a two story fall without so much as a reboot, based on how well they weathered my years of abuse and neglect.
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Yep, those things almost never die or need a reboot.
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Novell never breaks!
Re:A Little Late to the Game (Score:5, Funny)
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Yep, it's always fun smashing things into pieces for the thrill of it.
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Never blown up a server... (Score:5, Funny)
...but I've taken two printers out in the driveway and smashed the living crap out of them.
My new neighbor saw the second one...I was swinging it over my head by the power cord screaming "DIE YOU PIECE OF SHIT" when she came up with a mis-delivered package, and got to watch it shatter into a million pieces when I slammed it into the retaining wall.
She's still scared of me.
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Glad I'm not your neighbor.
Maybe you should consider some high blood pressure medication.
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Did it say 'PC LOAD LETTER'?
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'PC LOAD LETTER'?
What the fuck does that mean?
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Fight fire with fire? (Score:2)
By linking these pages on Slashdot, aren't we just adding to the cruelty against server-kind?
Re:Fight fire with fire? (Score:4, Funny)
Fastest /. ever? (Score:1)
I LOVE when things go Kablooie! (Score:2)
Yup! Server: DEAD!
Linked servers victims ? (Score:1)
A local woman who shot her computer (Score:2)
I know of a local woman, here in Northern Arizona, who shot her home computer a few years ago, because she was so frustrated with it. The couple who was her landlord also lived on the property and kicked her out shortly afterwards.
Raidcontroller (Score:1)
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You mean, "If you had a rocket launcher, you'd have made that server pay"?
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Yes, I know exactly where you're coming from but most decent RAID controllers via the web-bios you can disable the alarm.
Or open the case up and put a sticky tape over the stupid tiny little speaker so it'll STFU! LOL
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use one of these [fiftythree.org] when nobody else is watching. Problem solved.
my ISP once had servers exploded.. (Score:2, Interesting)
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That was many years ago when we used dial-up connection over phone line. One day we just couldn't get connected and I asked around neighbors, who couldn't either. Later the in the local TV news it was revealed the ISP's server room exploded...
Back when filesharing was still in the lab. :)
Still worth viewing! (Score:2)
In one clip, the guys were looking at the charred innards of their server, and while it was still smoking. one of the guys asks, "Did you get a backup?" THAT was too funny!
I guess it qualifies as a server (Score:4, Funny)
This was a single board computer that I determined was unrepairable:
Before [bls-inc.com]
During [photobucket.com]
After [bls-inc.com]
I love Tannerite.
Connection interrupted on the link.. (Score:1)
Article down (Score:1)
Poor monitors (Score:1)
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I feel bad when people take it out on a monitor, it's rarely the monitor's fault.
sure, worry about the monitors... no one ever thinks of the fish.
Those poor fish, they never stood a chance.
When Servers Explode: Two Words (Score:3, Funny)
God did it. (Score:5, Interesting)
My co-worker's phone began to smoke and slowly warped over 10 minutes. My phone was unresponsive and I couldn't hear anything out of my left ear for three hours.
Oddly enough there was no structural damage to the building. It took out our mail and radius servers and a few other boxes.
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Never had the big boom take out electronics on me, though last year we had a 50' oak tree 40' from the
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Did you see what GOD just did to us man?!?!!??!!!!!!
iPhone crashes, software crashes, not much else... (Score:1)
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Consumer hardware is pants. Bits flip and stuff randomly breaks - sometimes one leads to the other. It's a miracle that this messaË even reaches you at allËÎÏ
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So wait, why do they work fine with Linux and BSD? Maybe it really is the software's fault, if other software works correctly.
Number 1 Rule when Dealing with Servers (Score:3, Funny)
did that over 15 years ago (Score:1)
Hey
my site (just pictures) has been online for 15 years.
http://www.cpu.lu/~gkes/pcrepair/ [www.cpu.lu]
Funny enough it is always on the fist links in google when searching "how to repair a pc" :-)
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That was funny, I like the chainsaw part. You should put this on the shared drive at work before you leave for a better job since in the other article people are talking about documenting procedures and not wanting to because they are thinking about job security.
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well that website is known to everyone at my company, it existed even before I applied for a job.
If a company is not able to distinguish between fun an job, then it's the wrong company.
12470 volts (Score:2)
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It's not the volts that kills you. It's the amps. (Obscure)
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It's not the volts that kills you. It's the amps. (Obscure)
Actually its the Ohms. If you were a perfect conductor, you'd be fine.
1sockchuck to the back of the line! (Score:2)
We're not sure who was the first person to intentionally blow up a server, but plenty of others have followed in their footsteps, and many seem to have captured the event on video.
We're not sure who was the first person to intentionally pop a baloon, but plenty of others have followed in their footsteps, and many seem to have captured the event on video.
We're not sure who was the first person to intentionally eat a sandwich, but plenty of others have followed in their footsteps, and many seem to have captur
The SlashDot rolls on... (Score:1)
New Fox Specials (Score:2)
Just for reference
Tears and gives kudos (Score:2)
I'm indebted to those that posted here, and heartily, if tearfully, thank them. That made my day.
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Now, can we do something about the Canadian government? I know they're supposed to "serve" us, but look at the track record. Our politicians have only twenty digits. Ancient MIT devices parsing primes could do better back in the eighties. Please, please! Send up an Obama replacement for our "server," and we won't nuke it!
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After your Pres
Deja Fark (Score:1)
Fish (Score:1)
...lmao! the fish-flying-into-the-new-tank analogy slays me
A server is just a tool (Score:2)
"But dear student it is just a hunk of plastic and metal, it honestly harbours no feelings for you neither good nor bad."
This was in a room where six imacs were set to giggle randomly.
Flaming Printer (Score:3, Informative)
Never had a server explode on me but I did get a call once 10 years ago when I was working tech support at a University from a scared professor about a his printer smoking. I told him to unplug it and laughed thinking it was the usual type of user hysterics. I smell a little bit of burnt plastic thinking maybe there was some plastic left from when the printer was packed up by the manufacturer. I plug it in and right as it starts up its print head check flames start shooting up out of the back of the printer. I quickly extinguished it but looking around we really dodged a bullet. This printer was networked, and sitting on top of a large stack of student papers. The entire room was some college professor cliche with dozens of massive stacks of paper in this tiny 6x6 office. One unattended network print and the entire office goes up in flames in less than a minute.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lp0_on_fire [wikipedia.org]
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my first thought, exactly ;)
Flames (Score:2)
The closest I've come to a pc self-exploding is only partial self-combustion: ...that lit the wall up with pretty lights and turned out to be full of disconnected black pieces when I opened it. The fuse in the power cord (5A@240V) blew, meaning more than double the PSU's rating had flown through it. I'm surprised the motherboard survived, let alone everything else in the case. ...which wasn't itself stable, and fell out. Followed
One power-supply:
One motherboard with optional power-stabilization add-in-card:
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No more power supply after that though the rest of the system was okay.
Professional server killing (Score:1)
007 - The Man with the Expoding Servers (Score:1)
DEFENESTRATION (Score:2)
Rubbish! (Score:2)
I want to see movies and pictures of servers blowing up. That site it just two pages of text squeezed between adverts.
Are server internals flying all over the place and a little fire too much to ask for?
Ask, and ye shall receive... (Score:2)
Exploding hard drive... (Score:2)
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And in retail.. (Score:2, Interesting)
This was one of those power bars that we'd either shrug or laugh off the "$15,000 insurance" advertised on its packaging.
This guy's home was fed by an overhead power line that split from the mains line between his work sheds and house at a lamp post.
The lamp post got struck by lightning.
That was the ONLY ti
Sounds like fun! (Score:2)
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Last video on the page. And it IS impressive.
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