Reboot! 2008 post game report
It seems that Reboot! 2008 has been and gone, leaving in it’s wake a trail of destruction and broken limbs … well, not really, but ‘we moved some shelves and tidied up’ doesn’t sound as exciting now, does it?
We all started to trickle in from around 9:30AM, some of us stopping off to fuel ourselves (see the pics at the end of the post).
A few of us were dispatched to assemble a rack, which was quickly dubbed ‘FailRack’ due to our inability to get it to actually resemble a rack … having completely ballsed that task up we moved onto noting down specs of the current servers and powering them down (which I’m pleased to report we managed to do correctly), moving them into the lecture theatre next door … most of this stuff worked, honest. 
It was at this point we all decided we’d had enough and torched the lot broke for lunch … this may have been a somewhat extended lunch break, but hey, we totally deserved it!
After lunch we set about the easy task (I say easy because I was the one filming it) of moving the shelving units about. How these managed to withstand Hull’s recent earthquake we have no idea. With the the wobbly shelves in their new position to the left of the room, we started to move all of the machines back in and hook it all up, except for a few of the big-iron servers which Jonty and Wes seemed to be hitting with hammers (but not beans) in the lecture theatre.
After this came the networking cabinet (or was it before? I was jumped up on caffeine by this point), perhaps the most professional-looking part of the setup at the moment … which is saying something. 
At the end of the day pretty much everything was working, we had managed to install a few new servers and the room looked a hell of a lot better … there was still the huge pile of broken machines around the corner, but that horror deserves an entry all of it’s own.
Huge thanks to those that came and gave up their weekend to make FreeSide rock (more) and … hey, anyone feel like doing it again next year? …
June 3rd, 2008 at 10:34 pm
And that was only the stuff you lot were there for!
Me, jonty, mat and wes (along with rachel and andrea) were there till about 2 in the morning working on bits and pieces. Also, me, jonty and reedy, followed later by mat, rachel, wes and andrea, did a lot of work from Suncafe on the Sunday.
All in all good result and a fun time. Definately same again next year.