i'm a network consultant, that sometimes get tasked with sysadmin stuff. that's what happened monday.
on monday i get sent out to a new customer. they are experiencing some problems with a slow/unresponsive *nix web server. upon arrival they show me the server (physical) in question. it's making funny sounds from the cdrom drive. i ask them if and why there's a cd in it. they don't know. i ask them if i can push the eject button on the server, they say yes.
AAAAAAND the webserver stops responding and halts. panic ensues.
turns out, it was an ancient debian live cd. i basically just pulled the harddrive from the server. it had been running like this for years, wi