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Date: | Thu, 20 Jan 1994 18:01:37 +0100 |
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While the quakes are in CA, the East coast appears to be the area that is
in a state of emergency, due to unusually cold weather. People are
freezing their butts at home and turn on auxiliary radiators which
overload the power stations and cause black-outs, scheduled and
unscheduled. The computers that don't get switched off and don't crash as
a result of unexpected power drops have to be taken down because the air
conditioning doesn't work or the power is needed in another building. To
give you an idea of the gravity of the situation, even L-Soft's LAWYERS
have stopped the meter and are losing valuable, prime billing time
twiddling their thumbs at home in desperation! So it is no wonder that I
can traceroute to UBVM successfully, but it doesn't return my pings and
won't let me TELNET. JHUVM and AUVM appear to be down as well. It seems
about half of the computer systems crashed or went berserk, while the
other half are too busy recovering from all the problems caused by the
first group to actually get much real work done :-) Now looks like the
right time to suggest that Congress allocate 0.1% of the SDI budget to
building a robust power network so that the country cannot be disabled so
easily in time of war :-)
Eric
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