Anyone who worked as a Novell NetWare administrator probably has a story like this one to share:

The University of North Carolina has finally found a network server that, although missing for four years, hasn’t missed a packet in all that time. Try as they might, university administrators couldn’t find the server. Working with Novell Inc., IT workers tracked it down by meticulously following cable until they literally ran into a wall. The server had been mistakenly sealed behind drywall by maintenance workers.

Funny. I personally found one completely covered in nurses uniforms, hidden away in a wiring closet that had been converted into a, well, closet. We had remotely migrated its data to a new server and were just trying to find the thing so we could turn it off. It had been running without abend for years. Those were the days, eh?

On the flip side, the DailyWTF reports that some people think that servers should be placed in a location that is frequently visited:

Don had dolled out that task to construction project managers countless times, and they had always complied without issue: the server was installed in a secure and well-ventilated location. After all, where else would one put a $15,000+ computer running $100,000+ software to manage a $50,000,000+ construction project? When Don arrived at one particular location to setup the network, he discovered that the project manager had a slightly different interpretation…

You have to see it to believe it. Honestly, I would be scared to sit on a toilet that appeared to be connected to a Windows server. Note the unmistakable Ctrl-Alt-Del screen and the toilet paper roll on the floor. Please wash your hands before login?