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There's SOMETHING cut. I'm fairly certain of that, due to the extent of services downed, but whether it was Fibre, or servers, or something else, I'm curious: Like I said, when fibre lines are cut, there's EXTREMELY big trouble to be had. If it's on government property too, its jailable.
Fibre, when damaged, has to be ENTIRELY replaced, from the source, to end user. Usually costs tens if not hundreds of thousands, depending on where its cut. There's no splicing fibre lines.
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11-08-2010 at 11:10 PM
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Everything's still down on campus as far as i know though you can access your mcmaster email there and such? But not avenue and not journal databases. UTS doesnt' have an estimated time of fixation as far as I last saw
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11-08-2010 at 11:15 PM
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This is insane. If I hadn't been able to get notes off my friend who downloaded them in advance, I literally would not have been able to get anything done today.
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11-08-2010 at 11:17 PM
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Is there any chance that it will be up and running by tomorrow? Fuk man this uni is bullshittin me with their 19th century's way of dealing with technology!
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11-08-2010 at 11:19 PM
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they're trying to go to the moon and other planets and they can't fix technology down here ..
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11-08-2010 at 11:20 PM
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There's SOMETHING cut. I'm fairly certain of that, due to the extent of services downed, but whether it was Fibre, or servers, or something else, I'm curious: Like I said, when fibre lines are cut, there's EXTREMELY big trouble to be had. If it's on government property too, its jailable.
Fibre, when damaged, has to be ENTIRELY replaced, from the source, to end user. Usually costs tens if not hundreds of thousands, depending on where its cut. There's no splicing fibre lines.
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well I heard that a fibre line was cut on james street, which could be ours because that line can go to the fibre ring around the city that the opg (i think) put in and rents, so if that was cut, thats a big outage.... |
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11-08-2010 at 11:21 PM
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Great, I have a sociology assignment due tomorrow and the library site is down.
Why now :(
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The 1A06 paper? I won't be able to get it done now either. =\ |
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11-08-2010 at 11:23 PM
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there was also a prof on twitter talking about "an internet pipe" being cut, so im guessing he means fibre
and lol "splicing fibre lines" I want someone to try that
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11-08-2010 at 11:26 PM
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I said fibre lines "can't" be spliced. Anyways, it could be really bad, but I'm suprised it's not in the news yet.
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11-08-2010 at 11:28 PM
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Standing right in front of a fibre wire with labels "MCMASTER UNIVERSITY GLOBAL NETWORK - DO NOT TOUCH" and pliers in your hands... lol
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11-08-2010 at 11:29 PM
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The 1A06 paper? I won't be able to get it done now either. =\
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SAME!!! and thanks to the blue screen, i just lost my almost finished bibliography  .... FMLLLLLLLLL |
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11-08-2010 at 11:30 PM
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*Sigh*
no matlab.... cant watch psych lectures...
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11-08-2010 at 11:38 PM
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I said fibre lines "can't" be spliced. Anyways, it could be really bad, but I'm suprised it's not in the news yet.
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sorry I meant try to splice them, I know they cant be spliced, but it would be funny to see someone try.... |
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11-08-2010 at 11:38 PM
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Any thoughts on possible essay extensions? I have an essay due tomorrow morning (and though I should I have started before 6pm tonight, I didn't) and now I have NO access to the necessary journal databases...
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11-08-2010 at 11:38 PM
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SAME!!! and thanks to the blue screen, i just lost my almost finished bibliography .... FMLLLLLLLLL |
You managed to get it almost finished? I have 1/5th of it done. I wanted to access the article databases to finish it early today, but its been down all day.Went to a friend's apt half an hr from campus to try, to no avail. Didn't think all mac sites would be down. I just hope she gives us an extension. |
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