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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."
I am a student at this university, and one of the people who had no internet connection for 2 days because of this.
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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.
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Fire was started by an anonymous coward.
2 tiny fires were already put out the day before the big fire.
Jerrycans with petrol and matches were found in the (remaining part of the) building.
1 guy was arrested today. The police refused to comment about him.
I'm surprised no one put a link to the original Slashdot entry...
As yet, the cause of the fire is unknown. Technical investigators will look into it and investigate the possibility of the fire having been started. This may take some time. .. from: http://srv1ut.utwente.virtu.nl/en/news/engels1.doc /
Or before you post, learn geography. The map is of the region of Twente, the University is just north of Enschede in the East.
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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
First, the Debian community is not an 'elite'. Instead, you are welcome to join. But my point is that Fedora seems waste of efforts to me. Anyone can help Debian, OpenPKG, the freebsd-ports team, the Fink team for MacOSX or even Gentoo with packaging already. That makes sense - users need it and will use it. Playing 'man in the middle' for these pays off, you will learn a lot, and you do help other distributions as well. I don't mean 'there's no point in another community' - there is, just start, and that the best may win. That's what open source works like. But RedHat is a commercial distribution, package management for RedHat seems not that fun to me. Compare it to starting a 'Fink 2' that will never be the default. You will depend on their mistakes, on their decisions. There is one 'man in the middle' too much. Even better, you try to help RedHat, but it's RedHat's choice to let you pay for updates using the RedHat Network. Would they like you?
Still, let the best win. I hope to hear something from Fedora soon.
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.