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- An outage: Lessons learned
- Westminster College does not currently have a backup generator protecting its data center and telephone system. That is about to change. Backup generators are no longer optional. That--and other lessons learned--from recent outages at the college. by Scott Lowe
- Tags: Phone, Data Center, Payroll, Outage, Backup Generator, Data Centers, Storage, Backups, Payroll Solutions, Operational Accounting, Hardware, Data Management, Finance, Scott Lowe
- Blog posts 2008-07-30
- 10 flagrant grammar mistakes that make you look stupid
- These days, we tend to communicate via the keyboard as much as we do verbally. Often, we're in a hurry, quickly dashing off e-mails with typos, grammatical shortcuts (I'm being kind here), and that breezy, e.e. cummings, no-caps look. It's expected. It's no big deal. But other times, we try...
- Tags: Outage, Manufacturing, Jody Gilbert
- Blog posts 2008-03-06
- One week after latest outage, BlackBerry trips again
- Within a week after our latest report of a BlackBerry outage comes news of another confirmed issue with BlackBerries in North America. Unlike last week's incident, the downtime was limited to RIM's BlackBerry Internet Service BIS customers across all carriers. Corporate customers tend to lean towards the BlackBerry Enterprise...
- Tags: Research In Motion Ltd., RIM BlackBerry, Outage, Handhelds, Manufacturing, Hardware, Paul Mah
- Blog posts 2008-02-21
- Another major BlackBerry disruption reported in North America
- For the second time in 10 months, a major service outage of the popular BlackBerry service has been reported. The cause of this new outage is still unclear at the moment. What is known is that it began at about 3:20 P.M. ET and was fixed early in the...
- Tags: RIM BlackBerry, Outage, Manufacturing, Handhelds, Hardware, Paul Mah
- Blog posts 2008-02-12
- Yet another Blackberry outage hits North America
- For the second time in ten months RIM has suffered a 'major service outage' in North America that affected about eight million subscribers but the service was restored a few hours later. BlackBerry received a black eye last April when the mobile email service failed for almost 48 hours. A smaller outage was also...
- Tags: Mobile, Server, RIM BlackBerry, Outage, Service, Manufacturing, Advertising & Promotion, Handhelds, Marketing, Hardware, Tim Malone
- Blog posts 2008-02-11
- Site outage today 11/13 beginning at 5pm US/Eastern
- TechRepublic will be down for approximately 30 minutes today 11/13/07 for scheduled maintenance.This planned outage will occur at approximately 05:00 p.m. US/Eastern time 04:00 p.m. US/Central 03:00 p.m. US/Mountain 02:00 p.m. US/Pacific 09:00 p.m. GMT...
- Tags: Manufacturing, beth.blakely@..., outage, UCT Please, US/Eastern, Dad, Wow!
- Discussion threads 2007-11-13
- Site outage today 11/6 beginning at 5pm US/Eastern
- TechRepublic will be down for approximately 30 minutes today 11/6/07This planned outage will occur at approximately 05:00 p.m. US/Eastern time 04:00 p.m. US/Central 03:00 p.m. US/Mountain 02:00 p.m. US/Pacific 09:00 p.m. GMT ...
- Tags: Manufacturing, beth.blakely@..., outage, US/Eastern, Well OK
- Discussion threads 2007-11-06
- AT&T messaging service down for three hours
- eWeek reports that AT&T Wireless experienced a national outage of its messaging service on September 28, 2007. Company officials confirm that the outage started in early afternoon ET and lasted for three hours. According to the report by eWeek: At least three customers contacted about...
- Tags: AT&T Corp., Messaging, Outage, Messaging Service, Manufacturing, Groupware, Enterprise Software, Software, Paul Mah
- Blog posts 2007-09-29
- Google blogs experience brief outage
- Hot on the heels of Skype's outage last week is a report from PC World that Google's very own Blogger blog publishing, as well as its Blogspot blog hosting services, went offline. Apparently, a litany of complaints flooded the official Blogger discussion forum earlier in the week....
- Tags: Google Inc., Blog, Outage, Blogger, Blogging, Manufacturing, Internet, Paul Mah
- Blog posts 2007-08-22
- Windows update triggers Skype outage
- Folks, the word is out on the official Skype Heartbeat Blog. The outage that started on Thursday, August 16, 2007, was "triggered by a massive restart of [Skype users'] computers across the globe within a very short timeframe as they re-booted after receiving a routine set of...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Update, Network, P2P, Skype Technologies S.A., Outage, Peer To Peer (P2P), Microsoft Windows, Networking, Internet, Operating Systems, Software, Paul Mah
- Blog posts 2007-08-20
- Major Skype outage in progress
- Share with us how the outage affected youRe : Major Skype outage in progressBig problem. No way of contacting my peers.
- Tags: Manufacturing, paulmah@..., outage, Skype Technologies S.A.
- Discussion threads 2007-08-16
- Major Skype outage in progress
- Â Skype has confirmed that its network is currently experiencing an outage, resulting in a loss of connectivity for millions of Skype users. It appears to have to do with the fact that users are unable to authenticate to Skype due to a software issue. As...
- Tags: Skype Technologies S.A., Outage, Manufacturing, Paul Mah
- Blog posts 2007-08-16
- Site outage scheduled for today 8/9/07 at 5:30 pm EST
- TR will be down for approximately 30 minutes today beginning at 5:30 pm EST.Here's a short list of things you can do while we're down:1. Clean out your keyboard2. Clean your mouse3. Create fun lists to post on TR4. Think up bizarre complaints that will drive BB out of her...
- Tags: Manufacturing, beth.blakely@..., outage
- Discussion threads 2007-08-09
- Yesterday TechRepublic was buggy because...
- For those of you that check the news, San Francisco had a major power outage yesterday, and it took half of CNET down with it. (I don't know full details--like if the outage outlasted our UPS systems, or if the colo center just dropped the ball--because I'm not on the...
- Tags: Manufacturing, Jay Garmon, outage, C-NET
- Discussion threads 2007-07-25
- Flashing Light on HP 2410 Printer
- HP psc 2410 photosmart. problem developed after a short outage. Had this problem before after a power outage, but found a fix for it then. Un-plugged it for 60 seconds - re-plugged sounded like it was booting up with the normal sounds then it started a banging type sound once...
- Tags: Printers, Manufacturing, mmped@..., outage, home position, printer, Hewlett-Packard Co.
- Discussion threads 2007-06-28
- Silicon Valley goes dark again
- Here in California, we're famous for our Tech Industry and our rolling blackouts. In an area that's supposedly one of the technology leaders of the world, we can't seem to get reliable electricity. It isn't just the Government's fault, a large portion of citizens in this state hate the production...
- Tags: Manufacturing, George Ou, outage
- Blog posts 2007-06-22
- Massive network outage for AT&T-SBC
- 1:00 AM, I'm working late night here in Silicon Valley and the Internet Naming service has gone dark which means I can't get to the Internet. Not a single DNS server on the AT&T-SBC network functions which tells me it's a bigger issue than just a DNS server problem. I...
- Tags: News, Networking, Infrastructure
- Blog posts 2007-05-30
- With all this discussion about math, whatever happened to ARITHMETIC?
- I read a fair-sized chunk of the MATH / PROGRAMMING discussion and wondered why no-one seemed to be an exponent of arithmetic. I got an O-Level in Arithmetic before they "incorporated" it into Mathematics.Nowadays, if there's a power outage your local supermarket has to close because they can't add up...
- Tags: Old Mycroft, Thankyou, cashier, power outage, supermarket, outage, calculator
- Discussion threads 2007-05-12
- Outrage! RIM stays mum on BlackBerry outage
- Benefits of Globalization????It was not just NA, but had problems in Australia as well. Perhaps a case for a bit more redundancies in the system for systems of significant global reach. Other wise clients will just move on.Outage, comrade? Vhat outage?Vhat are this outage of vhich you...
- Tags: RIM BlackBerry, homesjc@..., outage, Research In Motion Ltd.
- Discussion threads 2007-04-24
- Outrage! RIM Mum on BlackBerry Outage
- In what I personally can only describe as OUTRAGEOUS, Research in Motion has refused to give any detals on the subject of the major north american outage of service.Canadian reports published today Friday say that the company is not returning media emails or phone calls about the outage.The Washington...
- Tags: Security, Blackberry
- Blog posts 2007-04-20
