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No Power In The East
M51DPS:
I'm over in North East Ohio, smack in the middle of the power outage. It really sucked because it was hot yesterday, meaning I no longer had fans. Mine went out around 4:30, then didn't come back until sometime around 10:30. According to the news 3 people died (two in New York and one in Canada) and they don't know what caused the blackout (they've been talking about technical error, fires, lightning, and even government conspiracy). All of the sudden bush's solution to the national energy crisis doesn't seem to be working. Plus he said in his speech that he sees no need to modernize the power grid. Somehow, I don't trust him.
[ August 15, 2003: Message edited by: M51DPS ]
Canadian Lover:
guuess what else?
alot of New Yorkers and Toronto citizins got stuck on there subways for 7 hours! I'm trying not to laugh eather!!!
M51DPS:
Hey, was anybody else hit by the blackout? At all?
jasonlane:
Have they decided how it actually happend yet?
I hear something about the telephone communications between the control centers and powers stations. Was this just a lack of communication or was the system actually down.
If it was fried was M$ to blame, for example Blaster brought down the 311 telephone network in NY earlier that day, no?
Calum:
interestingly areas where microsoft computers control mission critical parts of the grid were affected by blackouts at times coincidental with the msblast outbreak. areas where BSD and QNX are responsible for mission critical parts were unaffected, as would of course be expected, or at least i have heard it said...
http://promote-opensource.org/modules/news/article.php?storyid=204
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/333505
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