we did have a reseller that was being creative in getting 1 server back on line until parts came in. I was impressed how they improvised and not such a big deal. However we did discuss with the reseller that it was not appropriate. We are talking 1 server out of thousands of servers that happened a long time ago.
As far as the other pictures with duck tape and other messed up servers. Some were servers that were shipped to fdc in this condition, you can see the pictures are on the work benches and in the storage area . Some of these pictures can not explain and speculate they were staged by the person who seemed to be on a mission to make fdc look bad.
As far as the cat5 mess in-front of the rack. Sure we and some customers that rent racks from us have a few racks with cat5 all over the place., but the vast majority of racks do not reflective these pictures. For what ever reason the person who took the pictures found a few racks out of hundreds that had messy cat5 and his only intent is to make fdc look bad.
We are not perfect and try to learn from our mistakes , correct them and move on.
We have no servers in boxes.