Olympic-level server tossing contest seeks entrants – warranty voiding guaranteed

Many sysadmins no doubt will have wanted to fling a server from the top of a suitably tall building during moments of professional frustration, and now they can get the chance to chuck one competitively. Attendees of the CloudFest 2024 conference in Germany on March 18-21 will be able to enter the World Server Throwing …

[Pete 2]

Waiter minute

> server tossing

We aren't talking about food servers, are we?

That would take tipping them, too far.

[Paul Herber]

Re: Waiter minute

tipping the velvet? And tossing?

[Inventor of the Marmite Laser]

This just HAS to be live streamed. Anyone got a link?

[Anonymous Coward]

Please

We all need to know which of our European colleagues we owe a pint for earning and enduring the title of "Top Tosser"

I hope to even the field they include some extra ribbons

"Ruthless Efficiency" the greatest ratio of the throw to the thrower

"Pizza delivery" longest Frisbee style toss of a 1u server

"From me 2U" longest standard 2u

[PRR]

> This just HAS to be live streamed. Anyone got a link?

No. Server is down. All available hardware has been thrown into the breech.

May be of interest: tickets run 500 Euro up to 2000 Euro "VIP" which seems to allow you to sell stuff.

We need an outlaw league. When NHRA made drag-racing squeaky-clean, and banned nitro, and Circle-tracks banned billboard size wings, "outlaw" drag strips" and "outlaw tracks" let you run what you brung. With prizes! I know an all-concrete underground room perfect for high-violence server flinging.

[Phil O'Sophical]

I think I'd probably put my back out if I tried that style of tossing. Are we allowed the hammer-throw spin-and-release approach?

[John Brown (no body)]

I'm just picturing "comic book guy" from The Simpsons as the stereotype nerd putting his back just trying to lift the server, never mind throwing any distance at all other than maybe dropping it on his toes!

[Jr4162]

Was going to say that throwing a as/400 would damage more than a arm or two. I can see someone's back being messed up. Even the tower as/400s were heavy as heck.

Hope they have a army of chiropractors on-site for this event. :-)

[chivo243]

So many ways to exploit this one... so little time

prizes for the top three tossers!

[Benegesserict Cumbersomberbatch]

Server's up

No, sorry, it's down again.

[trevorde]

TYOS (Throw Your Own Server)

Raspberry Pi 5 in a FLIRC case would go the distance!

[John Brown (no body)]

Re: TYOS (Throw Your Own Server)

Not enough mass, air drag. Need a NUC-a-like and discus throwing skills :-)

[jake]

My current record is about 220 feet (67m).

But that was straight down.

VAX 6000[0] ... off the top floor of 525 University in Palo Alto.

We had to get it out of the building by close of business to beat a performance clause in the contract. The heavy-goods lift was down, and building rules insisted "no equipment in the passenger elevators!".

So rather than lug the thing down all those flights, my buddy and I hauled it onto to the Boss's private balcony. It took about 5 minutes to remove enough of the barrier to put the thing on the edge. He went downstairs to shoo potential targets out of the drop zone, and I pushed with the help of a crowbar and a block of wood. Sadly, in the days before so-called "smart" phones, we didn't think to videotape it.

_{[0] All you VAX lovers out there can chill ... we stripped it of anything useful before the defenestration. The chassis probably still weighed well over 500 pounds (225kilos). At the time, you could buy a VAX 6000 chassis at less than scrap value from places like Wierdstuff Warehouse. Risking life and limb getting the thing down ~12 flights wasn't worth it.}

[John Brown (no body)]

Re: My current record is about 220 feet (67m).

I was reading through these comments in anticipation of a post from Jake and I wasn't disappointed :-)

Jake, you exceeded my expectations :-D

[VicMortimer]

Re: My current record is about 220 feet (67m).

Us VAX haters really wish you'd gotten video.

[rg287]

What we all need to know is.. will there be milk?