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The Website is Down, Check The X-Box

May 25, 2008 in Geek Stuff, Microsoft | Tags: | Leave a comment

Gaming consoles these days are down right powerful machines. I’ve read stories about people running Playstation3 Cluster Farms and other fun projects. This is a funny story I came across about a University using an X-Box for a web server.

The website is down because someone removed the X-Box

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