[Rhodes22-list] looks like the power is back

[Michael Meltzer]

lap tops are not nominally servers, most or my stuff is rackmount, what are you asking or problem you are having?

MJM
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kroposki" <kroposki at innova.net>
To: "'The Rhodes 22 mail list'" <rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org>
Sent: Monday, August 18, 2003 9:53 AM
Subject: [Rhodes22-list] looks like the power is back


> Michael,
> Do they have laptop servers?
>                                      Ed K
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: rhodes22-list-bounces at rhodes22.org
> [mailto:rhodes22-list-bounces at rhodes22.org] On Behalf Of Steve
> Sent: Monday, August 18, 2003 9:04 AM
> To: The Rhodes 22 mail list
> Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] looks like the power is back
> 
> Well, on a bright note, Michael.  From what I heard it
> wasn't so bad.  In Arkansas, every time a Tonado goes
> by or we have an Ice storm; we lose power.  Sometime
> for a week or so.  Are you sure you wouldn't want to
> move to the country:-)  When the power goes out, work
> shuts down and we all get to go hunting!!!!!
> Steve
> 
> 
> --- Roger Pihlaja <cen09402 at centurytel.net> wrote:
> > Michael,
> > 
> > Sounds like you didn't have a "good week".  I'm glad
> > you're OK though.
> > 
> > The power outage of summer, 2003 looks like it's
> > going to be a classic
> > example of the interconnectedness & inherent frailty
> > of modern technology.
> > Overload one high voltage transmission line near
> > Cleveland, OH on a hot
> > summer afternoon & generate a cascading electrical
> > grid failure that cuts
> > power over about 7200 square miles of the United
> > States & Canada affecting
> > about 50 million people!  Lots of folks also lost
> > their potable water system
> > when the power went down.  Of course, the mass
> > transit systems also shut
> > down.  I will never forget the sight of all those
> > thousands of people
> > streaming out of Manhattan on foot via the Brooklyn
> > Bridge & thousands more
> > having to sleep on the sidewalk in Times Square, &
> > this was from just a
> > minor glitch in one system.  The entire system is so
> > complex & so
> > interconnected, it's truly amazing; that, events
> > like this don't happen more
> > frequently.  Overall, the engineers have done a
> > wonderful job of making
> > everything work together so efficiently that it
> > becomes invisible.  Most
> > people never give the technological infrastructure,
> > that is literally their
> > life support system, a moments thought.  I like the
> > way James Burke put it,
> > "We all live in a technological trap."  Our
> > population is already much too
> > large & too densely packed into major metropolitan
> > areas to support without
> > all this technology.  So, we have no choice but to
> > stumble along as best we
> > can.  No doubt, the experts will extensively study
> > the root causes of this
> > power outage.  Technical, regulatory, & managerial
> > improvements or
> > safeguards will be implemented as a result.  But,
> > the system is so complex,
> > interconnected, & always changing; that, there are
> > always going to be many
> > more modes of failure than can be anticipated or
> > protected against, even
> > without a terrorist attack.  Perhaps, we simply have
> > to accept an occasional
> > glitch as the price we pay for a high standard of
> > living 99.9+% of the time.
> > 
> > Roger Pihlaja
> > S/V Dynamic Equilibrium
> > 
> > 
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Michael Meltzer" <mjm at michaelmeltzer.com>
> > To: <jbconnolly at comcast.net>; "The Rhodes 22 mail
> > list"
> > <rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org>
> > Sent: Saturday, August 16, 2003 4:35 PM
> > Subject: Re: [ham] RE: [Rhodes22-list] looks like
> > the power is back
> > 
> > 
> > > I got big time stuck, 26 floors up and no way to
> > get home. As I said to
> > the wife "I am spending the nice candle lite night
> > with the
> > > boss, sweet violet smell in the air(the candles),
> > sweating, eating
> > somewhat cold leftover from the refigdator(beat me
> > who's or
> > > what's), the water is out(roof top tank drained),
> > toltes are hell and
> > worst of all the boss/his  hairy legs are looking
> > sexy to me
> > > in the some what stipped state we are in.
> > >
> > > MJM
> > >
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "Jim Connolly" <jbconnolly at comcast.net>
> > > To: "'The Rhodes 22 mail list'"
> > <rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org>
> > > Sent: Saturday, August 16, 2003 1:39 PM
> > > Subject: [ham] RE: [Rhodes22-list] looks like the
> > power is back
> > >
> > >
> > > > Michael,
> > > >
> > > > How long were you in the dark?
> > > >
> > > > Did you get stuck in NYC?
> > > >
> > > > Jim Connolly
> > > >
> > > > On Saturday, August 16, 2003 12:49 PM, Michael
> > Meltzer
> > [SMTP:mjm at michaelmeltzer.com] wrote:
> > > > > test
> > > > >
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