From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Apr 14 12:30:55 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id MAA08497 for chat-outgoing; Mon, 14 Apr 1997 12:30:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cs.iastate.edu (cs.iastate.edu [129.186.3.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id MAA08417 for ; Mon, 14 Apr 1997 12:29:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sunfire.cs.iastate.edu (sunfire.cs.iastate.edu [129.186.3.46]) by cs.iastate.edu (8.7.4/8.7.1) with ESMTP id OAA14802; Mon, 14 Apr 1997 14:29:27 -0500 (CDT) Received: from localhost (ghelmer@localhost) by sunfire.cs.iastate.edu (8.7.4/8.7.1) with SMTP id OAA04485; Mon, 14 Apr 1997 14:29:27 -0500 (CDT) X-Authentication-Warning: sunfire.cs.iastate.edu: ghelmer owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 14 Apr 1997 14:29:25 -0500 (CDT) From: Guy Helmer To: Zach Heilig cc: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Red River of the North update. In-Reply-To: <19970413235754.54566@murkwood.gaffaneys.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-chat@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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