Re: Solar Flux (was: Re: China prefix hijack)

2010-04-11 Thread Andy Koch
On Sun, Apr 11, 2010 at 16:06, Joe wrote: > > >        The topic of sunspots is certainly familiar from long ago. We had a > 7513 > that crashed unexpectedly, upon a review of the data available, it was > determined > that a parity error had occurred. I can't remember the exact error as it was > s

RE: Solar Flux (was: Re: China prefix hijack)

2010-04-11 Thread Joe
The topic of sunspots is certainly familiar from long ago. We had a 7513 that crashed unexpectedly, upon a review of the data available, it was determined that a parity error had occurred. I can't remember the exact error as it was several years ago, but upon a quick search this article

Re: Solar Flux (was: Re: China prefix hijack)

2010-04-11 Thread Warren Bailey
ing my GCI BlackBerry - Original Message - From: Leigh Porter To: Warren Bailey; valdis.kletni...@vt.edu ; wavetos...@googlemail.com Cc: vi...@isc.org ; r...@seastrom.com ; na...@merit.edu Sent: Sun Apr 11 12:39:39 2010 Subject: Re: Solar Flux (was: Re: China prefix hijack) There is a guy

Re: Solar Flux (was: Re: China prefix hijack)

2010-04-11 Thread Leigh Porter
; Robert E. Seastrom ; na...@merit.edu Sent: Sun Apr 11 08:36:05 2010 Subject: Re: Solar Flux (was: Re: China prefix hijack) On Sun, 11 Apr 2010 16:58:40 BST, Michael Dillon said: > Would a Faraday cage be sufficient to protect against cosmic ray bit-flipping > and how could you retrofit a F

Re: Solar Flux (was: Re: China prefix hijack)

2010-04-11 Thread Warren Bailey
2010 Subject: Re: Solar Flux (was: Re: China prefix hijack) On Sun, 11 Apr 2010 16:58:40 BST, Michael Dillon said: > Would a Faraday cage be sufficient to protect against cosmic ray bit-flipping > and how could you retrofit a Faraday cage onto a rack or two of gear? Scientists build ne

Re: Solar Flux (was: Re: China prefix hijack)

2010-04-11 Thread Scott Howard
On Sun, Apr 11, 2010 at 7:07 AM, Robert E. Seastrom wrote: > We've seen great increases in CPU and memory speeds as well as disk > densities since the last maximum (March 2000). Speccing ECC memory is > a reasonable start, but this sort of thing has been a problem in the > past (anyone remember

Re: Solar Flux (was: Re: China prefix hijack)

2010-04-11 Thread Micheal Patterson
lock on it, the odds of its random noise being something decipherable are much more acceptable than normal. - Original Message - From: "Robert E. Seastrom" To: "Paul Vixie" Cc: Sent: Sunday, April 11, 2010 9:07 AM Subject: Solar Flux (was: Re: China pref

Re: Solar Flux (was: Re: China prefix hijack)

2010-04-11 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Sun, 11 Apr 2010 16:58:40 BST, Michael Dillon said: > Would a Faraday cage be sufficient to protect against cosmic ray bit-flipping > and how could you retrofit a Faraday cage onto a rack or two of gear? Scientists build neutrino detectors in mines 8,000 feet underground because that much rock

Re: Solar Flux (was: Re: China prefix hijack)

2010-04-11 Thread Michael Dillon
> That is likely to be an increasing problem in upcoming months/years. > Solar cycle 24 started in August '09; we're ramping up on the way out > of a more serious than usual sunspot minimum. I wonder what kind of buildings are less susceptible to these kinds of problems. And is there a good way to

Solar Flux (was: Re: China prefix hijack)

2010-04-11 Thread Robert E. Seastrom
Paul Vixie writes: > i'm more inclined to blame the heavy solar wind this month and to assume > that chinanet's routers don't use ECC on the RAM containing their RIBs and > that chinanet's router jockeys are in quite a sweat about this bad publicity. > -- > Paul Vixie > KI6YSY That is likely t