[ntp:hackers] Backroom

Danny Mayer mayer at gis.net
Thu Aug 14 07:37:50 PDT 2003


All I can say is that it's lucky that the Union is still talking with Verizon
and that they are not on strike, otherwise who knows when it gets fixed.

Danny

At 09:32 AM 8/14/03, David L. Mills wrote:
>Guys,
>
>Blade 1000 mort.udel.edu is in the shop being upgraded to Solaris 9. All
>the campus Solariba have already been uptraded. The only one left is
>whimsy.udel.edu and that will happen soon.
>
>The backroom critters have been isolated from campus for periods over
>the last couple of days, it seems due to ISDN outages again. The
>backroom is at the end of a long, dinky wire from the Newark DMS-150 CO.
>It snakes around the backroads and woodlands here in northern Delaware
>and very old Verizon infrastructure. The most recent failure was due
>repeater fried on a backwoods utility pole. The telco guys know the line
>well, as it comes victim of squirrel, backhoe, road rage and general
>rust several times a year. I even have a special number to dial for
>trouble tickets. I tell you this on the slim chance you have experiments
>running here.
>
>Dave
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