Freitag, 24. Juni 2011

Watercooling: You're doing it wrong


I still don't know every part of the system because.. well I think its a mixture of the fact that it is a complex network structure and the fact that there is no documentation. But that's okay since some teachers work there long enough to know some facts I can "harvest" from them and bake a nice knowledge cake with it (aww what a charming analogy).

Every week there is a new surprise for me. And I don't mean minor surprises like that only every third workstation have BIOS passwords or that some teacher-only workstations have Internet Explorer 6, Firefox 1.0 and viruses on them, no I mean something really surprising.

For example I was trying to physically see every switch so I would know in what conditions they were.

So every floor should have a switch rack that connects all the rooms of that floor with the main server in the basement. I mentioned before that there is no documentation about what port of the switch is connected to what room but that's not what I was going after this time.

All switch racks were normal, in good conditions and locked except for this ONE rack in the second floor I just couldn't find. After interrupting several classes in order for me to see if this classes have the switch rack somewhere in the back I didn't find anything. The only rooms I skipped were the toilets - who would ever put switch racks in toilets, I thought...

I entered one of the boy's toilets and was surprised to find what I was looking for -> a switch rack with broken handles (locks) that could be opened and tempered with by every guy in this school.

and it looks like this ->
 

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