Re: solar storm

[Dave Curado <davec () weezel net>]

We seem to get more ram parity errors on our cisco gear
during solar flare activity.  Some believe that the cosmic
rays generated from such events zap the memory.

davec

> I haven't been tracking outages through an entire 11 year sunspot
> cycle yet, it only seems like forever.  I've looked for correlations
> of unexplained outages or directly attributable outages with previous
> solar flare warnings, but so far nothing detectable shows up.
>
> There are normal satellite outages twice a year as the sun crosses
> the Clarke belt.  I've also noticed a 3,6,9 year technology obsolence
> cycle when old equipment fails before companies replace it.
>
> On Sat, 15 July 2000, smd () clock org wrote:
> > Forgive this temporary segue into a potential operational issue.
> >
> > http://abcnews.go.com/sections/science/DailyNews/sunspot000714.html
> >
> > I would find it interesting if any outages observed by Sean Donelan
> > or others could be attributed to this solar storm; alternatively,
> > any higher than average incidence of outages and failures would
> > be interesting from a correlation analysis perspective.