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Re: Y2K Was: Re: POWER: San Mateo/San Francisco power outage report
From: "Jay R. Ashworth" <jra () scfn thpl lib fl us>
Date: Wed, 9 Dec 1998 18:57:54 -0500
On Wed, Dec 09, 1998 at 11:19:46AM -0500, David Lesher wrote:
This is topic creeping so I'll close with one thought. Power is hard because: unlike TCP/IP bits, when things fall down, you gotta get RID of the stuff blowing back in your face NOW, or lots of things get turned to smoke. Suppose that when your big box of bits stutters; the box feeding you in LA didn't just stop, but halted & caught fire...and that meant YOUR box, that was picking itself back up, just did likewise.
Hint: AT&T, SS7, 1990. Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth jra () baylink com Member of the Technical Staff Buy copies of The New Hackers Dictionary. The Suncoast Freenet Give them to all your friends. Tampa Bay, Florida http://www.ccil.org/jargon/ +1 813 790 7592
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- POWER: San Mateo/San Francisco power outage report Sean Donelan (Dec 08)
- Re: POWER: San Mateo/San Francisco power outage report Jon Zeeff (Dec 09)
- Y2K Was: Re: POWER: San Mateo/San Francisco power outage report Nathan Stratton (Dec 09)
- Re: Y2K Was: Re: POWER: San Mateo/San Francisco power outage report David Lesher (Dec 09)
- Re: Y2K Was: Re: POWER: San Mateo/San Francisco power outage report Mark Boolootian (Dec 09)
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- Re: Y2K Was: Re: POWER: San Mateo/San Francisco power outage report Jay R. Ashworth (Dec 09)
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- Re: Y2K Was: Re: POWER: San Mateo/San Francisco power outage report Jay R. Ashworth (Dec 09)
- Y2K Was: Re: POWER: San Mateo/San Francisco power outage report Nathan Stratton (Dec 09)
- Re: POWER: San Mateo/San Francisco power outage report Jon Zeeff (Dec 09)
- Re: Y2K Was: Re: POWER: San Mateo/San Francisco power outage report Nathan Stratton (Dec 09)
- Re: Y2K Was: Re: POWER: San Mateo/San Francisco power outage report Forrest W. Christian (Dec 09)
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- Re: Y2K Was: Re: POWER: San Mateo/San Francisco power outage report Roeland M.J. Meyer (Dec 12)
- Re: POWER: San Mateo/San Francisco power outage report Jay R. Ashworth (Dec 09)
- Re: POWER: San Mateo/San Francisco power outage report Karl Denninger (Dec 09)
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