the whole business school ordeal is really pathetic. i happen to be
a business student, with a final project due tomorrow (a project
that is 100% reliant on their classweb2.bus.utexas.edu server).
they won't even power the box up with a yanked eth jack and
extract my project to send to me. the dean of tech mandated
that ALL servers be brought down. http://www.bus.utexas.edu is down.
i knew the business school was inept technically, but wow.
On Thu, 4 May 2000, Alex Winbow wrote:
> Date: Thu, 4 May 2000 15:29:32 -0500 (CDT)
> To: SIGLinux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> From: Alex Winbow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Reply-To: Alex Winbow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Down systems
>
>
> Ordinarily I completely ignore mention of some new windows email
> virus. But when I walk into the business building (so I have a French
> class there...) and the walls are PLASTERED with signs saying, if I may
> paraphrase,
> "The computer networks and servers are down for an undetermine
> length of time due to the I luv you email virus. We are sorry for the
> inconvenience, please call our hotline to determine when things are back
> up."
>
> ... I have to laugh, sickly. I mean, how much damage can M$
> Outlook do to the world???? The NYTimes quotes Network Associates as
> saying that 30% of British corperate email systems are down, and 80% of
> Sweedish!
>
>
> Ok, enough of that nonsense.
>
> What's much more annoying is uts.cc.utexas.edu. Anybody know and
> is allowed to talk about what went on? Their short status blurbs claimed
> that they had some sort of "major" loss of /home, but that's just a 40 gig
> hardware RAID5 setup, nothing particularly dramatic. And that they were
> then restoring from tape -- dated from Sunday 6am -- and that would take
> several days (it didn't; it's apparently fixed now, some 20 hours before
> soonest predicted uptime.) So the only thing I can conclude is that they
> had some sort of catastrophic loss of the controller itself (like, fire in
> the box??) *and* at least one of their incremental backup tapes. And their
> tape drives are about as slow as floppies.
> Anybody know any more?
> Argh,
>
> -Alex
>
>
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