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University of Twente Back Online
UncleH writes "University of Twente is back online again, after the University NOC burned to ashes on wednesday. This also means that the much discussed University Campus network is also fully available again. The university already had internet access through a masquerading box in the network of their neighbours. Big hurrah for the network engineers of the University, large applause for the network engineers of SURFnet for restoring the 10Gbps Point of Presence within 36 hours after the fire."
The University of Tene was only half as good.
And the university of Forte is twice as good!
I feel guilty every time I boot Windows
...someone must have put a fire under their asses to get it done that quick. Oh wait...
Those students had to go 36 hours without pr0n???
Repeal the DMCA!
Damn that must have been some hot hot file trading to burn the internet equipment.
And one giant hurrah for the original structural engineers for building us one giant flamable deathtrap.
And the first thing to happen after getting back online is getting slashdotted. :)
When someone might yell at me, it has to be OpenBSD.
Sorry to the guy who came up with this nonsense in the previous story. I posted this without his copyright permission.
In other news, the world's largest interconnecting bandwidth pipes have a usage increase of roughly 50%. This is thought to be a result of University of Twente students catching up on all the latest pr0n, warez, and mp3 that is a vital part of the university experience
let the pr0n flow!
>big hurrah for the network engineers of the University, large applause for the network engineers of SURFnet
:)
Ummm that's misuse of the title engineer
"The network should be operational again as soon as possible," said Van Vught. "We do not yet know how long this will take, but it will certainly take a few days." He does not expect the UT to have lost much data. A back-up was made this weekend. "
I bet the tapes were sitting next to their proprietary tape drives too. Melty Melty.
Saskboy's blog is good. 9 out of 10 dentists agree.
The hidden webcams were back up, popups and all, withing 12 hours!
Capitalism is said to be driven by greed, but I think a more powerfull force is at work!
You can't judge a book by the way it wears its hair.
No one died in the fire, as I read on the website.
Unless you are talking about the death of the computers.
Bless their Pentium, and RISC souls.
Saskboy's blog is good. 9 out of 10 dentists agree.
Gentlemen ... START YOUR P2P APPS...
this is what happens when too many lonely college students try to download "too hot for tv.mpg" at once and don't take the filename seriously.
"Where are we going, and why am I in this handbasket?"
What was the cause of the fire anyway?
Moderators on crack still.
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I believe this computing facility hosted a Debian mirror. Let us not think that this fire was due to some type of isolated eletrical fault or a gas leak. I think this is a deliberate strike against Debian. People are heartily sick of the ceaseless but apt-get is sooo cool repetition that goes on, unfettered by common sense. Unfounded self-righteousness and wanker elitism is to blame for this act. Debian users...take this as a warning. Other Debian mirrors will surely suffer the same fate as this one. This situation is preventable. Just shut up about apt-get. Gentoo and BSD users are more 3733+ than you anyway
everybody link to their home page. If the T1 doesn't smoke, the server will.
/. spam servers, maybe they will go up in smoke too. Definitely worth a shot.
If we just
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I am a student at this university, and one of the people who had no internet connection for 2 days because of this.
:-)
The thing is, you don't realise how much you use the Internet everyday until something like this happens.
It's not that you can't read Slashdot and some other sites - I can do without that for a week or two (honestly, I swear!!
The thing is, there are exams this week and next week, and you run into problems like this:
- There is a system where you can see at what location your exams are - *on the internet*.
- Part of the things you have to learn for exams are on the internet (central server containing a lot of this stuff, which has been burnt away as well).
- You don't have a clue whether your exams will even take place, maybe the original assignments are burned so they have to make a new exam (might well have been in some cases, and turns out to be the case for one of my exams).
- You can't mail people to make an appointment or ask about what is going to happen next, you actually have to go there or someway find out their telephone number (if you don't have it - I nearly always use ICQ or mail). I usually look up telephone numbers using...you guessed it...the internet.
I can go on some more, but I think you can fill in the rest for yourself: you *really* become very dependent on something as "simple" as a permanent internet connection.
Every expression is true, for a given value of 'true'
Some folks had gone into a panic:
No! No! Not the the pr0n!
Aeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!
We could go on, but you get the idea.
"It is a greater offense to steal men's labor, than their clothes"
The neighbours also have their site in English. They offer serverspace from an old Dutch gold storage facility (nuclear safe building deep underground). As cool as this is their quality leaves something to be desired ;-)
(the error in the last link is theirs, not mine...try it yourself by going to this page and clicking on "qualty".....really...quite funny)
I'm surprised to see such outpouring of emotion over this event. The first story had hundreds of comments, and this one looks like it's headed the same way. Frankly, I'm saddened. Granted, fires are scary things, and shouldn't be taken lightly. But come on...no one died, and a single building of computers burnt down. Considering the violence and tragedy that occurs around the world every day, is the loss of a couple thousand dollars of (insured) plastic, metal and silicon really cause for such dramatics? I know this is "News for Nerds," but nerds are people too. Or so I thought. Sometimes I wonder if there's any humanity left on Slashdot...
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it caught flames yet again. Damn slashdotters.
I think it's awesome that they got the network back up and running so fast. I consider my school very proficient when it comes to managing the school network, but I don't think they'd be able to get the network back up that quickly in the event that something like that happened. To anyone who works for a University on their network: is your school making any changes to prepare itself in the event that something like this happens?
So i was in the server room, and the fire alarm was like *beep beep beep* and i had to leave and i lost my server. it was a really good server.
Since when has this country used intellectual elite as a pejorative term?
I'm surprised no one put a link to the original Slashdot entry...
That's friggin incredible!! 36 hrs and they're back already.
ATTENTION MICROSOFT...TAKE A CUE FROM THESE GUYS
lp0: printer no longer on fire
Honey, I shrunk the Cygwin
Was there really a 50% increase in major pipes today? And perhaps yesterday? I thought something was funny... couldn't play quake for 2 days cause of an extra 100ms that came from nowhere.
...is plug and play too.
I hear plasmas are a great data transport medium, I bet all those ones and zeros are now very far away.
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Now thats what I call a Firewall!
After the last several posts using my account have been getting -1's all to hell, this is my theory. No, I am not a troll.
Whoopdee doo! If I knew I could get this kinda publicity I would set fire to all kinds of crazy things...
--Joey
silicon eruption from a molten 486dx can ignite cat-5, unplug from server farm prior to moving clock jumper.
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What a bunch of dumbfucks. They think "Halon" is a game for the X-Box.
Abolute, superclapping kudos to the guys that had a backup and were able to restore operations so quickly.
Can you imagine how devastating it must have been when the ENTIRE NOC WAS WIPED OUT? Can you imagine how many unemployed people there would be right now if this ever happened to a company and there was no such plan? I hope none of you ever find out, for all your jokes and goofiness.
NOW THAT'S WHAT I CALL DISASTER RECOVERY.
I think with the interesting people, their lives can't possibly be wrapped up into a nice little package.
let the mother$(*&*& burn....burn mother&*&(*&....burn
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Computers have feelings too.
I dont know about you, but I hug mine all the time.
"Go into the hall of mirrors and have a bloody hard look at yourself" - HG Nelson
It's not that you can't read Slashdot and some other sites - I can do without that for a week or two (honestly, I swear!! :-)
;o)
As true of most drug dependents, they deny their addiction.
SKO Has gone from a Troll to a KarmaWhore. That is actually a move in the right direction. NOT!!!! Trying to build back up your karam I see slut. All that trolling takes its effect on you doesn't it.
I wish I could get these guys over to my house to restore my cable modem back the the glorious speeds I had about 5 years ago. Of course today if they mucked around 'restoring' my bandwidth, the FBI would show up with their guns and confiscate my my coffee pot and take a few donuts as some form of evidence. Oh well, back to my 'high-speed online' web surfing.
your university after a number, at least learn to spell it correctly.
the University of Nineteen
Slashdot will post a story on it once they've got the technical specs on those tasty wireless motion sensors.
I agree with the main post but I disagree with yours.
sorry, but non-citizens just don't get to enjoy same rights as citizens.
send 'em back home.
I see all these comments about the students missing out on porn. What you guys fail to realize is that in the Netherlands you can go fuck a hot chick for roughly $25.
They will get to buy all new equipment hopefully.
Who cares?
All circuits busy.
So, did anyone actually see the "lp: The printer is on fire!" message?
Every year or so our company brings in some consultants, who have never done our (IT Staff) job but somehow know how to do it better than us. One of the things they invariably tell us, it that we need a DR site. They always say something like "What if there is a major disaster such as an earthquake or a fire?" My answer was always, "If there is a disaster of that magnitude, the last place I am going to be is work." Whether I would have that luxury or not I hope I never have to find out, but I agree with you. What the hell are these guys thinking as everything is going up in flames? Not cool. On a side note, our datacenter almost went up when a huge disk array caught on fire. The pipes got flooded but luckily the sprinklers didn't go on and hose down all the servers. (No, we didn't have halon at that point.) You'd be more scared if I actually said the name of the company. Sad but true.
If this article confuses you, don't worry. It was posted yesterday in a much clearer fashion.
The college I attend doesn't even have internet access except in the labs. They are finally putting in a wireless network, but it won't be until next year--after I will have graduated.
Eagles may soar, but weasles don't get sucked into jet engines...
First these people have to endure losing and replacing an entire NOC in a fire, and now their new webserver is linked to directly from the slashdot frontpage. Haven't those poor server admins suffered enough?
I'll be honest, we're throwing science against the wall to see what sticks. -Cave Johnson
Dutch leisure facilities were stretched to the breaking point recently, while Dutch Telecom workers recovered from their record-breaking, 2.7-hour effort. Beer and "herb" suppliers reported a massive surge in demand as hundreds of Telecom workers left en masse for breaks at 11:13 am Friday, hours after lifting a manhole cover and connecting a spare pair of wires at an out-of-office location.
"It was hell out there" said DT assistant foreman Paul Verhoeven, "we would break for 20 minutes, and get right back into it for another 10. I barely had time for the forms, and then my assistant went down with a sore thumbnail."
Not for long. The Fedora project aims to bring a Debian-like community of packages and apt-get to Red Hat Linux. We are early in specification stages at the moment, but developers (NOT USERS YET!) are welcome on our mailing lists.
I personally feel that Fedora will be very influential for the Linux community in the future.
Why? Please read my 1st Fedora draft proposal .
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of people hard at work to get my email back online! Thank you very much!
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"I hear that the Twente NOC engineers tried to construct their own firewall."
(Joke)
is getting slashdotted
Yes. This is downright reprehensible.
Did you editors not read the comment in the last story? They're running on an emergency setup, and *specifically* requested that their new network *not* be linked to by slashdot.
See this comment on your own story.
So they donate resources to Debian, their NOC burns down, they set up an emergency system *and* go to the trouble of politely requesting Slashdot *not* to link to it and the first thing you do is do exactly that, making the network unusable for the students that are already having to deal with the burning down of part of the university.
Assholes.
May we never see th
Wednesday I joked the BSA lit the fire... Officials reported the fire may have actually been lighted. In 3 days, the university had 4 fires. 3 of them could be extinguised before any damage was done. A 26-year old man has been arrested in the case.
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According to Twentsche Courant a suspected arsonist was arrested.
I saw the following on my favorite MUD, Tsunami, thanks to Sitavan:
There was a fire today that destroyed the datacenter at the University of Twente in Enschede, The Netherlands, housing a SurfNet (the academic and research network over there) POP amongst many other things.
A friend sent me these syslog entries which I found interesting... The first one is from a router in Enschede that was destroyed, and the second one is from the router in Amsterdam that it connected to:
0.ar5.enschede1.surf.net 3613: Nov 20 7:20:50.927 UTC:
%ENV_MON-2-TEMP: Hotpoint temp sensor(slot 18) temperature has
reached WARNING level at 61(C)
lo0.cr2.amsterdam2.surf.net 1146: Nov 20 07:20:56.458 UTC:
%CLNS-5-ADJCHANGE: ISIS: Adjacency to ar5.enschede1 (POS2/0) Down,
interface deleted(non-iih)
Tsunami -- You can't bring a good wave down!
My provider seems to have old DNS data cached, the link doesn't work. Try their IP-address instead.
Internet traffic exchanges worldwide have seen the amount of traffic roughly double in the last couple of hours.
It is suspected that the increase in traffic is due to mp3/divx/pr0n/warez downloading. But where that traffic comes from is still unknown.
This issue is one of the most pressing issues of our time. The fire in the UoT NOC devastated my life and I am glad to see this ongoing coverage on Slashdot. When I awoke the other day to find out that the NOC at UoT had burned, I called in sick and spent the day frantically calling friends and family. True, I live in Las Vegas and do not use the NOC at all, but my heart really went out to these people. I urge everyone to open their checkbooks and donate funds to the NOC. I am lighting a candle as I type. Words cannot express my grief over the NOC fire at the Univerity of Twente.
Internet traffic exchanges worldwide have seen the amount of traffic roughly double in the last couple of hours.
I don't think so, i did not see such an increse on our network, and AM-SIX's hugegraph confirms that: -> http://www.ams-ix.net/hugegraph.html
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We would like to extend our condolences to the people involved. We have donated over 500,000 guilders to this cause and I hope that other readers fall in and help out with this.. this is definitely the greatest tragedy of the universe, i am now committing ceremonial hari kari over this. regards.
Pictures of the sudden demise of our network can be found here: ( hosting from an other uni wasn't such a bad idea after all :-) )
http://tiefighter.et.tudelft.nl/~maurits/fotosite/ index.html
see ya
Maurits
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