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Telstar 4 is Down
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I always love reading stuff like this and realizing that in one or two areas of technology, I actually know something some other people don't - see, otherwise, I feel completely inadequate when people start tossing around TCP/IP jargon and such.
The T4 failure caused us only to have to re-point our WSI weather data antenna (that's the service we use that downloads all the pretty satellite pictures and weather radar the meteoroligist uses on the air) and move our UPN network backup dish. We also lost a couple of syndication feeds (we record a lot of the non-net programming you see ahead of time from satellite and play it back at it's correct time) - but I think they were things like "People's Court" and "Ricky Lake" so it's no great loss to have to run the backup shows;-)
Other than that, we didn't really suffer much. There's not a ton we use on old T4 anyway, most of our critical stuff moved over to T5, T6, T7, AMC-3 and other newer birds a while ago.
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I always love reading stuff like this and realizing that in one or two areas of technology, I actually know something some other people don't - see, otherwise, I feel completely inadequate when people start tossing around TCP/IP jargon and such.
;-)
The T4 failure caused us only to have to re-point our WSI weather data antenna (that's the service we use that downloads all the pretty satellite pictures and weather radar the meteoroligist uses on the air) and move our UPN network backup dish. We also lost a couple of syndication feeds (we record a lot of the non-net programming you see ahead of time from satellite and play it back at it's correct time) - but I think they were things like "People's Court" and "Ricky Lake" so it's no great loss to have to run the backup shows
Other than that, we didn't really suffer much. There's not a ton we use on old T4 anyway, most of our critical stuff moved over to T5, T6, T7, AMC-3 and other newer birds a while ago.