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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.
...someone must have put a fire under their asses to get it done that quick. Oh wait...
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
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.
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?"
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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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"
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?
lp0: printer no longer on fire
Honey, I shrunk the Cygwin
Whoopdee doo! If I knew I could get this kinda publicity I would set fire to all kinds of crazy things...
--Joey
I had this NOC. It was a great NOC. I really like the NOC. It told me where my exams were and stuff. Then it burned up and I was like uhhuhhh. And then I had to look at the university phone book to figure out everyones phone number. It was like ... a bummer.
Mmmm.. Donuts
silicon eruption from a molten 486dx can ignite cat-5, unplug from server farm prior to moving clock jumper.
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wow, i didnt know canada burnt down the original whitehouse... after we bomb iraq, lets go after canada!!
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.
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.
So, did anyone actually see the "lp: The printer is on fire!" message?
At least they didn't have to spend much time figuring out if the router was fried...
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."
"I hear that the Twente NOC engineers tried to construct their own firewall."
(Joke)