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Blackberry Network is Down

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the hate-when-that-happens dept.

Brian writes "According to CNET and others, "A system failure at Research In Motion has affected BlackBerry users in the Western Hemisphere, a news channel reported on its Web site late on Tuesday. The infrastructure failed on Tuesday night, and e-mails were not being delivered to the handheld devices.""

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  1. Better headline needed by neoform · · Score: 4, Funny

    Common, this was an easy one!

    "Blackberry Blackout"

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    1. Re:Better headline needed by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      Blackberry is down! I repeat, Blackberry is down!

    2. Re:Better headline needed by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      I guess noone told him it was two words

    3. Re:Better headline needed by WrongSizeGlass · · Score: 2, Funny

      Too bad for them because my iPhone is still up and running. Oh, wait ...

    4. Re:Better headline needed by AugustZephyr · · Score: 5, Funny

      Does anyone have a mobile link for the website. I can't seem to connect to it on my blackberry.

    5. Re:Better headline needed by Goffee71 · · Score: 1, Funny

      Blackberry Jam.... leaves room head bowed in shame

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    6. Re:Better headline needed by Oktober+Sunset · · Score: 5, Funny

      Blackberry Jam.

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  2. OH NO! by Jhon · · Score: 4, Funny

    My thumbs are twitching!

    1. Re:OH NO! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      First Post!

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  3. Crap! by Gen.+Malaise · · Score: 5, Funny

    Now I have to go in to work and explain that I dont control the Blackberry network........Cmon RIM!!

    1. Re:Crap! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      So true, man so true.

      We have multiple BB servers, use Boxtone, a cron job thats sends the entire IT department an email every 30 minutes with a subject of "Yes, the BB system is still working" so those of us with BBs can verify it is actually working from end to end twice an hour and I restring fresh garlic around the server weekly. All in an attempt to keep the users off of our back. Nothing more frustrating then getting an earful because a user is in Winchestertonville Iowa and they do not have coverage and they want it fixed right now. The clients they are with have BBs and they work, why does mine not work? WTF? Well, maybe they are not using TMobile? They come back to the office in a rage, we swap everything over to a different carriers device for them and then we get the same call a week later because they are in Europe and they have no signal. Of course we told them that before switching them that international would not work with that carrier but they seem to have forget that small tidbit. Rinse, lather, repeat.

  4. I feel a disturbance in the net... by cnelzie · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...as though a million voices just cried out and were suddenly silenced.

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    1. Re:I feel a disturbance in the net... by Compact+Dick · · Score: 5, Funny

      Voices? Silenced?

      Much you have to learn, young PDAwan.

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    2. Re:I feel a disturbance in the net... by God'sDuck · · Score: 5, Funny

      Much you have to learn, young PDAwan.
      Dear Sir, please send payment for:
      • 1: New Coffee
      • 1: New Monitor
      to: 123 Fake street, Fakeville, NY, 12345. Thank you.
  5. Can't be true.. by JohnHegarty · · Score: 4, Funny

    Can't be true... I would have got an email telling me if it was......

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  6. Just count it like a Snow Day... by Moby+Cock · · Score: 2, Funny

    ... and tell everyone to stay home.

  7. Two Reactions by necro81 · · Score: 4, Funny

    I can predict at least two possible reactions from end-users.

    First: jumping out of a building due to the terror and pain of sudden withdrawal. It happens to heroin addicts, it can happen here too, folks.

    Second: people wandering the streets of major cities bright-eyed and staring in open wonder, as though they were waking up from a long dream. Joining hand in hand, they frolic in the parks or whatever greenspace they can find chanting "Free at Last, Free at Last..." The clouds part, and an auspicious rainbow graces the sky. Oh, and I suppose there are other reactions: incoherent rage at no one in particular (ever chat with a cold-turkey smoking quitter?), unjustified rage at corporate IT for letting this happen, curling up in a fetal position in the corner, uncontrollable thumb twitching (almost like phantom limb pain).

    Then there's another reaction: simply shrugging and going back to computer-based email and cellphones.

  8. Oh, nbw it makes sense! by Xenophon+Fenderson, · · Score: 2, Funny

    I got in trouble with my wife last night for not reading her emails to me, and I could not figure out why synchronization wasn't working. Thank you, Slashdot! You saved my marriage!!!

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    1. Re:Oh, nbw it makes sense! by schwartzg · · Score: 3, Funny

      Well, this is certainly unusual. Slashdot saving a marriage......

  9. You don't see anything on the server by techpawn · · Score: 2, Funny

    And I don't want to carry one, first I heard is when a user asked me about it. Sure enough, my boss is asking me why their blackberries aren't working and I'm in a meeting trying to show them how the system works... CURSE YOU RIM!

    They could at least tell a time they plan on having it working again...

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  10. Black Berry Down by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    Blackberry down, we got a blackberry down.

    Leave No Email Behind

  11. one word response to this tragedy by corbettw · · Score: 2, Funny

    Yippee!

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  12. The DoD emailed our Blackberries to tell us..... by teshuvah · · Score: 2, Funny

    Good ole' government. Last night at 11:37 PM the DoD distributed an email to all Blackberries informing them that the Blackberry service was down.

  13. Re:Not very reassuring. by lbmouse · · Score: 2, Funny

    Maybe they're on a shared server with Turbo Tax.

  14. Oh, no by Skidge · · Score: 4, Funny

    Now what's a busy executive supposed to do when you're giving them a presentation? Actually pay attention to you?

  15. Re:It IS a house of cards by ColdWetDog · · Score: 4, Funny

    Technology already starts learning from nature, copying structures and models from millenia proven concepts. I think business could learn a thing from them too. Because nature has down what business wants to achive: Maximum output for minimum input. There is no such thing as waste and surplus in nature's makeup, if there was, it would be used for more output instead. So why do we have 2 kidneys, why is our brain able to adapt to damage, if it wasn't for the simple fact that this proved to be the more successful way in the long run.

    You must be new here. (To life that is...)

    You will realize the fallacy of your statement soon after your 50th birthday. Nature isn't all that it's cracked up to be. Those bouncy little disks in your back will start taking on the appearance and flexibility of cardboard. Your prostate (assuming you are male) will enlarge and back your bladder up into your nostrils. Your uterus (assuming your female) will simultaneously enlarge, flop over and quit working. Your eyes will go bad. Various other bits will quit working while parts of your body that you didn't know existed will start creating problems.

    While modern medicine can approach some of the problems, any repairs will be more like soldering a few new capacitors on to a Pentium II motherboard (and charging for an eight way Opteron system) than anything really useful. Oh, and you want a warranty?

    Death and taxes to you sir!

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  16. Re:BES users potentially not affected? by dr_dank · · Score: 4, Funny

    RIM lost their primary NOC last night. Your BES transmits data to their NOC including mailflow routing and SRP information. This issue affects the Americas entirely and is currently fixed for Sprint and Nextel. GPRS/EEDGE providers are still unable to contact back to RIM at the present time.

    I'll LOL if RIM is FOOBAR and can't GBTW but my PHB won't ROFL that the BOFH at RIM is AFK. LBC, 213.

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  17. Re:Not quite 'Western Hemisphere' by Gilmoure · · Score: 2, Funny

    Considering the Prime Meridian runs through the middle of Greenwich, UK...

    Maybe we should move that puppy over to Iceland?

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  18. This just in! by Catbeller · · Score: 2, Funny

    Karl Rove in ER being treated for shock following Crackberry failure. Nation's government falls. Peace breaks out, we run a surplus, Crawford is consumed by tornados that miraculously miss the protestors.

    Wait, am I awake now? Damn.

  19. Re:It IS a house of cards by Opportunist · · Score: 5, Funny

    You mean... just ... maybe ... a few million managers could die? May I get my hopes up?

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