Andrew Stahl wrote:
>
> I wonder if the contractor ever heard of an umbrella. Do they even have them
> in sunny California?
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Friday, March 02, 2001 7:25 PM
> Subject: Cable Repairs Delayed
>
> >
> > Communication & Network Services (CNS) at the University of California,
> > Berkeley (UCB) posted the following update to outage affecting SETI@home:
> >
> > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> > Fiber cut silences SETI@Home, Lawrence Hall of Science
> >
> > 2 March 2001
> >
> > At about 3:30 AM PST on 27 February an optical fiber cable connecting the
> > U.C. Berkeley campus with the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory was
> cut,
> > apparently by vandals trying to "salvage" copper from other nearby cables.
> >
> > The broken fiber carries data and voice connections for LBNL and also for
> > the Space Sciences Lab and the Lawrence Hall of Science. SSL is where the
> > SETI@Home project is located, so the millions of participants helping to
> > analyze data have been unable to contact the SETI@Home servers ever since.
> >
> > Repairs were supposed to be completed late today, but have been delayed
> due
> > to the rain last night. Apparently the rain, mud, and steep terrain
> combined
> > to prevent the contractors from bringing their equipment to the repair
> site.
> > We are now being told that the contractors will somehow be able to reach
> the
> > site tomorrow morning, 3 March, and should finish the repair late in the
> > day.
> >
> > For more information, please visit the newsgroups sci.astro.seti and
> > alt.sci.seti.
> > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> >
> > CNS cable repair status reports can be viewed @
> > http://www.net.berkeley.edu/setiathome/ .
> >
> > --
> > Jeffrey Ottie
> >
Umbrellas don't do such a hot job when it comes to thousands of tons of
moving mountain side in the form of mud that sometimes goes as fast as
30Mph. ;-) From what I understand of rain storms out there this time of
year thats a real hazard. Something that we here on the east coast have
never had to deal with.
--
Mark
"If you don't share your concepts and ideals, they end up being
worthless,"
"Sharing is what makes them powerful."
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