Re: NANOG Spam?

[Bob Vaughan]

 
 Sabri Berisha said the following on 6/7/2006 19:32:
  So people who are 'real' but lurk a loti should reply to this message so
  they don't get moderated :)
 
 Not sure I am real, but I do lurk.
 
I sometimes feel the same way..


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Re: UUNET connectivity in Minneapolis, MN

[Bob Vaughan]

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 During the Northridge earthquake (the one during the 
 world series in sf.ba.ca.us) there was a BUNCH of 
 disruption of the infrastructure, drives were shaken
 til they crashed, power wend down all over the area, 
 Telco lines got knocked down, underground vaults got
 flooded, and data centers went off line.
 

Sorry.. wrong earthquake..

The Loma Prieta quake of 10/17/1989 occured during the opening
game of the World Series, featuring the San Francisco Giants,
and the Oakland Athletics in an all SF Bay area series.
The epicenter was in the Santa Cruz mountains, in the vicinity of 
Mt Loma Prieta. Commercial power was lost to much of the bay area.

The Northridge quake occured on 1/17/1994, in southern California.
The epicenter was located in the San Fernando Valley, 20 miles NW of
Los Angeles.

As far as I recall, network disruption was minimal following the 
Northridge quake, with a few sites offline {due to a machine room flooding
at UCLA?}




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Re: Stanford Hack Exposes 10,000

[Bob Vaughan]

 
 * Jon Lewis:
 
  How hard is it for a university to generate their own student serial
  numbers as students register?
 
 It's probably hard to restructure your databases and rewrite most of
 your software. 8-(
 
 Of course, any unique identifier will do, but it's hard to make the
 switch.
 


Stanford's student/faculty/staff ID system is not based on SSN's, and
it has been in place for a number of years.  I don't think the previous
system was based on SSN's either.

Which brings up the question of why SSN's would be in the career center
database in the first place.



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