Date: Mon, 14 Apr 1997 14:29:25 -0500 (CDT) From: Guy Helmer <ghelmer@cs.iastate.edu> To: Zach Heilig <zach@blizzard.gaffaneys.com> Cc: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Red River of the North update. Message-ID: <Pine.HPP.3.96.970414141839.2716C-100000@sunfire.cs.iastate.edu> In-Reply-To: <19970413235754.54566@murkwood.gaffaneys.com>
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On Sun, 13 Apr 1997, Zach Heilig wrote: > We are recovering quite nicely from the storm last weekend, those workers from > the various power cooperatives (probably close to 1000 workers total) > basically have most of the close to 10,000 broken poles and the several > hundred major power structures [mostly metal towers for high voltage lines] > replaced, and very few people are still without power. A few years back, the network I used to manage was offline after a lightning strike forged the main campus transformer into a low-resistance hunk of metal and as a result the campus power was off for 30 hours straight. When the power came back, the FreeBSD mailserver was hit *hard* with incoming mail, and it handled it (it was fun to watch the maillog blaze by :-)! [In context, I remember working on Cybers, Apollos, old Suns, and MicroVAXes so well that I still can't help but be impressed by FreeBSD on a 25MHz 386] Guy Helmer, Computer Science Grad Student, Iowa State - ghelmer@cs.iastate.edu http://www.cs.iastate.edu/~ghelmer
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