Not to change the subject, but did anyone hear what Bill Gates was unveiling
the other day just before the earthquake struck in Seattle. Supposedly just
before the earthquake he looked down at his laptop, pressed a button and
said "And this button controls the Earth's core"
----- Original Message -----
From: "Norberto Osvaldo Di natale" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, March 02, 2001 9:31 PM
Subject: RE: Cable Repairs Delayed
>
> well, we're becoming TOOOOO dependant. I think my grandfather didn't get a
> telephone until he was fifty, and that didn't bother him too much.
>
> He used to write letters, I guess.
>
> I took advantage of the outage and pressed the big red switch. My machine
> was resting for a couple of days. It looks younger.
>
> Be nice with our planet and save some energy til Sunday
>
> Norberto
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Friday, March 02, 2001 9:25 PM
> Subject: Cable Repairs Delayed
>
>
> >
> > Communication & Network Services (CNS) at the University of California,
> > Berkeley (UCB) posted the following update to outage affecting
SETI@home:
> >
> > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> > Fiber cut silences SETI@Home, Lawrence Hall of Science
> >
> > 2 March 2001
> >
> > At about 3:30 AM PST on 27 February an optical fiber cable connecting
the
> > U.C. Berkeley campus with the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory was
> cut,
> > apparently by vandals trying to "salvage" copper from other nearby
cables.
> >
> > The broken fiber carries data and voice connections for LBNL and also
for
> > the Space Sciences Lab and the Lawrence Hall of Science. SSL is where
the
> > SETI@Home project is located, so the millions of participants helping to
> > analyze data have been unable to contact the SETI@Home servers ever
since.
> >
> > Repairs were supposed to be completed late today, but have been delayed
> due
> > to the rain last night. Apparently the rain, mud, and steep terrain
> combined
> > to prevent the contractors from bringing their equipment to the repair
> site.
> > We are now being told that the contractors will somehow be able to reach
> the
> > site tomorrow morning, 3 March, and should finish the repair late in the
> > day.
> >
> > For more information, please visit the newsgroups sci.astro.seti and
> > alt.sci.seti.
> > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> >
> > CNS cable repair status reports can be viewed @
> > http://www.net.berkeley.edu/setiathome/ .
> >
> > --
> > Jeffrey Ottie
> >
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