a) I'm not a loyal servant of the American Empire - I'm stuck here in Baghdad against my will, thanks to the back-door draft. b) I don't care about annoying people who think they're important - freedom of speech, and freedom of information! but mostly because c) I want to piss off the Anonymous Coward.
We lose connectivity about once a week on Camp Slayer, part of the VBC in Baghdad. Most of the unplanned outages are due to power failures. In fact, our 1.6MW generator just went out a few hours ago and took us completely offline for about a half hour. But, for the most part, we have good redundancy. Even with this Middle East outage, connectivity on the military net has been good. A network minimize has been issued, meaning that non-mission-essential websites are blocked to conserve bandwidth. I'm getting to Slashdot on a commercial line that has satellite connectivity to the States. The only other huge outage since I've been here was an Exchange failure that brought our email down for about three days.
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Are the meat, dairy, puppy mill, and zoo industries going to be included on this list? If not, it's worthless.
Then I'll expand on it, because:
a) I'm not a loyal servant of the American Empire - I'm stuck here in Baghdad against my will, thanks to the back-door draft.
b) I don't care about annoying people who think they're important - freedom of speech, and freedom of information!
but mostly because
c) I want to piss off the Anonymous Coward.
We lose connectivity about once a week on Camp Slayer, part of the VBC in Baghdad. Most of the unplanned outages are due to power failures. In fact, our 1.6MW generator just went out a few hours ago and took us completely offline for about a half hour. But, for the most part, we have good redundancy. Even with this Middle East outage, connectivity on the military net has been good. A network minimize has been issued, meaning that non-mission-essential websites are blocked to conserve bandwidth. I'm getting to Slashdot on a commercial line that has satellite connectivity to the States. The only other huge outage since I've been here was an Exchange failure that brought our email down for about three days.