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EBone/KPNQwest Network Shutting Down
reginald.barclay writes "As KPNQwest has filed for bankruptcy some time ago, also EBone, which they aquired some months ago, goes down the drain. Together, these two companies carried betwenn 1/3 and 1/2 of European IP Traffic (and, in the case of KPNQwest, an unknown portion of voice). Employees at Ebone were laid off last week and told to abandon their NOC. But instead of getting drunk and over with it, they occupied their former workplace. Now even their time is running out, and one of Europes oldest backbone carriers will probably be shut down today, at 1700 CET. I wonder how many of their customers (mostly ISPs and VBCs themselves) have managed to run to the competition in time. Nevertheless, I expect the routing in large parts of Europe to be very interesting (in the chinese sense, of course) over the coming weekend and early next week." Update: 06/14 18:02 GMT by M : Apparently KPNQwest's creditors have agreed to pay to keep the place going until the end of June.
Can someone translate that into say GMT for us? Not many people are gonna know what CET stands for.
The One Rule Of Chess You'll Ever Need: Don't play someone who carries a kit in their bookbag.
I'm US and I'm here!
I dunno, I think there should be a government bailout of something like this.
Actually, I think in the US, everybody should be given the option for a cable modem for say $40/month and if that generates losses, the government should subsidize it. imho.
no way ! other people will do the whinning and complaining about the US for us. even if they are not socialists
This is true, the latest Netcraft surveys confirmed it : the Internet is dying.
Let's have a look at some numbers. According to TCP/IP's leader Richard Stevens, ehm... nothing.
How many devices connected to the Internet do I have in my toilets? Zero. This is coherent with the number of posts on Usenet whoose title is "How to upgrade my toilets to IPv6"
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Yeek Gads, I wish that I had the chutzpah to name my company EBone. Imagine what you could do with that domain name...
.jpg culled from a TGP listing on the top of the CD, (step unknown), PROFIT!
1- Sell femurs ONLINE!
2- Get rich off of chewy naugahyde treats and have a sock-puppet dog as a mascot. Then get your panties in a bunch, have a HUGE ego trip, then sue NBC for DARING having a show that runs a comedy piece with a lookalike-sock puppet dog.
3- Break into Bill Gates' private subeterranean warehouse/Fortress of Pain and liberate the Elephant Man's real bones. Turn around and sell them back to him through EBone.com, make a small fortune.
4- Set up your own Linux distro, slap a
5- Derive a line of "vegetarian steaks" Say that they're like, made of textured tofu or some shit, implant a E-shaped "bone" composed of plastic therin, sell to vegetarians, watch them keel over and die because their guts have been made pathetic and WEAK from years of digesting food that they weren't intended to. Laugh menacingly while twisting your waxed moustache.
6- I dunno, turn it into your one-stop dicklicking emporium? It's not like the name is indicitave or anything?
Why is it when I hit ^R that ZSH calls me a cocksucker?
I'd rather see them on Celebrity Boxing. Or maybe not. They'd both be pretty boring in the ring, given their current state.
That is all.