for all those doing apt-get update and getting errors...

----- Forwarded message from Wichert Akkerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -----

At around 8 this morning (local time) a fire started in the 
computing facilities of Twente University. This affects Debian, since
on of our servers (satie) is hosted there. At this moment it seems
very likely that the machine can not be recovered from the fire.

The following services are currently down as a result of this:

  security.debian.org
  non-us.debian.org
  nm.debian.org
  qa.debian.org

We are working to restoring these services on another machine and
hope to have things in mostly working order by tomorrow. Security
advisories are still available at http://www.debian.org/security/

----- End forwarded message -----

remember the good old days, when the kernel featured errors like "lp1 is
on fire"? not funny.

Reminds me of the time when I was working at InternetZahav YM"Sh, and
the secondary DNS stopped responding. I called the secondary site to
talk to the idiot sitting at the NOC. "Ha-DNS nafal", I said, but he
didn't know which machine it was. I had to drive there, where I found
that the poor sparc pizza physically FELL from the top of a 19" cabinet
(wasn't screwed in place) onto and under the half-dismetaled floating
floor of the computer room that was under construction at the time.
oddly enough, the box was put on the shelf, switched on and worked
without even a manual fsck.

and then there was the time with the Ultrix machine and the Baobab tree,
but that's for a different time...

-- 
Alien experiment gone wrong
Ira Abramov

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