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."

Comments

Makes you realise how much you depend on it...

[Idaho]

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.

Re:Christ, if your going to name

[jelle]

Or before you post, learn geography. The map is of the region of Twente, the University is just north of Enschede in the East.

Stupid fucking Slashdot editors

[0x0d0a]

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.