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UUNET/WorldCom Backbone Diffiiculties
FearlessFritz writes "UUnet seems to be having a bad time recently. Several sites in the SouthEast of the US have been slow or down. Here is Worldcom's quote from their web page: 'WorldCom is currently experiencing an interruption of service in various hubs in the U.S. We are working to restore a routing anomaly, and making necessary progress toward resolving this disruption in service.' There are several rumors abounding, but the best is that they performed a hardware upgrade that failed. Is anyone outside of the Southeastern U.S. experiencing the effects of this outage? (I am peered to several providers so I can post!)"
Must be a nice upgrade...
When you die, on your deathbed, you will receive total consciousness. So I got that goin' for me, which is nice.
I worked for an ISP once who had their POP in a really ghetto trailer (double wide) in Hawthorne, NV.
this is my sig
that reminds me of those fucking great cdw commercials, "Uh, I think I broke the Internet" the guy says.
Yeah, that's some funny shit.
This is a tad bit OT, but a few years back I worked at this one radio station. It was one of those crappy light-hits stations and at it's peak was the most popular listen-at-work radio station in mid-Michigan.
Anyway, this station was literally run out of a trailer. On a dirt road, no less. When you walked in, you were standing in the middle of the living room. Manager/Program Director's desk sat off to the left. Walk straight in and the AP news computer sat in the dining room in addition to a regular PC used for dialup internet access. Next to that was the kitchen which was used as... well, a kitchen.
The studio was the master bedroom. They packed an enormous amount of equipment in there. Even though the big stuff was vented outside, it still sucked being in there in the middle of summer.
The best part however, was the location of the FM transmitter. This big hulking, whirring, blinking, refridgerator-sized transmitter with cables going everywhere, was located in the trailer's BATHROOM. The toilet had been removed and they had to cut a big hole in the wall for the 5" thick cable to go out to the antenna.
The had to be one of the oddest stations in the country, (it was a fun place to work) but I found the trailer abandoned 3 years ago when I stopped by to see if anyone I knew was still there.