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Thursday, June 08 2006

"The website is down because someone removed the XBox"  by James W at 08:21

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xbox Not strickly gaming news but it is quite amusing and involves an Xbox. An American university tried to go for the cheap alternative and use an Xbox 1 loaded up with Linux to host student websites for their projects.

Read on to find out why it might not have been a great idea.
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KendoMonkey
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08 June 2006 12:17
Great story - love that penny pinching.
WUD
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08 June 2006 12:32
bet his son was miffed, lol
Re0sLess
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08 June 2006 12:42
"to find out why it might not have been a great idea." - rofl, they coulddt tell that by just thinking for a second?
malis
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08 June 2006 14:04
hey if it works it works
shagnastie
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08 June 2006 14:14
what a pikey using his kid an a excuse to steal a Xbox - we all know in our hearts he was stealing it for himself Busted !
Landen
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08 June 2006 15:31
Haha, was a good idea, worked for ages and only stopped working because someone nabbed it
Re0sLess
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08 June 2006 16:48
Well i guess if you install Linux and Appachi the xbox is just a PC, so its would be no diffrent from a old P4 web server.
Midnight
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08 June 2006 18:35
I read 2 years ago about some guy strining 3 xbox's together and running linux on them when the Xbox had only been out a little while. It had pictures of it working


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