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Fire causes downtime
Posted by Magnus on 12 November 2001, 21:06 GMT

A fire in the electrical switch station in the basement of the building where ticalc.org is hosted caused a major power failure for several hours today. Our UPSes can hold out some, but not 4-5 hours. Therefore, ticalc.org went offline for three hours and 15 minutes, breaking our 300+ days uptime.

 


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Re: Fire causes downtime
Barrett Anderson  Account Info
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wasn't there a down time when there was a problem in Telia? or does that not count? btw... according to my information giver people, 255 died in the plane crash today (0xFF OR 0b11111111) NOW. if you remember some of those emails you got, there were a LOT of 1's and 11's that had to do with 9-11 (9-11, towers = 11... flight numbers add up to 11 etc... )... and it JUST so happens that now there are 4 11's in that number...(YES, i know that they don't think it was a terrorist attack)... i'm going nowhere with this... just a thought... maybe some kind of sign of the end of the world.. (and ONE (1) day before today was ELEVEN(11) ELEVEN (11) zero ONE(1)

     13 November 2001, 05:16 GMT

Re: Re: Fire causes downtime
Tim Dorr  Account Info
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uh oh... numerology.....

     13 November 2001, 06:11 GMT

Re: Re: Fire causes downtime
Peter Martijn Kuipers  Account Info

They now report 265 dead, so you don't need to worry about that
<mild sarcasm>
Oh, and lasttime I checked 1's didn't have anything to do with the end of the world.

     13 November 2001, 08:38 GMT

Re: Re: Re: Fire causes downtime
Arcades  Account Info
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Yeah, It's those '0's you have to worry about...

     13 November 2001, 13:27 GMT

Re: Re: Re: Fire causes downtime
S. G. Account Info
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If there were one fewer or ten more dead, we'd have a multiple of eleven. Omigod-- one fewer, ten more, that adds up to eleven!
Wait-- of course two consecutive multiples of eleven would have a difference of eleven between them. (rolling eyes at self)
That's sad about the plane crash. I'll bet more than 11 of those people had to convince themselves to let go of fear and get on that plane. And even sadder is the thought that some victims had a friend of theirs convince them to go, and now that friend is feeling horrible. I hope not.

     13 November 2001, 19:56 GMT


Re: Re: Re: Re: Fire causes downtime
Josh Susmarski  Account Info

You got a point. 11 seems to pop up everywhere, kinda like 666 and other numbers. ever wonder why? because i guarentee that if you have a number with more than three digits, i can make it into any other number by adding, subtracting, multipling, dividing, exponential figuring.... It just depends on what you want to see. Does anyone else have an ink blot test coming to mind? (please excuse any grammical errors in my letter, i type to fast for me brain to think quick)

     13 November 2001, 21:15 GMT

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Fire causes downtime
Konstantin Beliakov  Account Info
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Damn Nastradamus!

     13 November 2001, 21:38 GMT


Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Fire causes downtime
Hex4def6 Account Info

yeah - its a prime number too. 7, 3, also show up a lot as well.

     14 November 2001, 00:42 GMT


Re: Re: Re: Fire causes downtime
Barrett Anderson  Account Info
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well, i do believe that there were 255 on the plane itself.

     14 November 2001, 03:21 GMT


Re: Re: Re: Re: Fire causes downtime
Barrett Anderson  Account Info
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sorry, 260, including 5 infants without a seat. but anyways... ((1111)^1111)^(1/1111)=1111!!!! AMAZING HOW THIS STUFF KEEPS POPPING UP!!! (lol...)

     14 November 2001, 03:49 GMT

Re: Re: Fire causes downtime
no_one_2000_  Account Info

This was probably a coinsedence (obviously), but almost every other day before the 9/11, since about 2 years ago, I've always seen 9:11 on the clock. I don't know why. Since the 9/11 thing, I haven't seen it on the clock since. Okay, I'm rambling about nothing. I just want to talk to myself.

     14 November 2001, 00:34 GMT


Re: Re: Re: Fire causes downtime
lord_nightrose Account Info
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I predicted the whole 9/11 thing... sorta...

In a daydream I had last summer, I saw giant flaming ... somethings falling into tall buildings in a big US city. I thought they were meteors. Turns out they were airplanes... and yes, I know they weren't flaming *until* they hit the towers...

I saw this whole thing while listening to a techno remix of Agnus Dei (the one that is the theme to Platoon). Interesting...

     14 November 2001, 02:08 GMT

Re: Re: Fire causes downtime
no_one_2000_  Account Info

oh yeah, more junk to talk abou the clock with: Now I've been seeing 5:29. I've seen it about 50 times so far. I don't know why. I don't watch the clock or anything, it's just I'm passing by to go the the computer and I see the clock. So dumb.

     14 November 2001, 00:36 GMT

Re: Re: Re: Fire causes downtime
blitter Account Info

April 29th? :-/

     14 November 2001, 02:13 GMT

Re: Re: Re: Re: Fire causes downtime
blitter Account Info

...or May 29th, even

     14 November 2001, 02:16 GMT


Re: Re: Re: Re: Fire causes downtime
shockedslk  Account Info

April 29, 1992 come to mind??? it should if you're an anarchist.(sorry bout the sp)(anitchrist also works.)
Rodney king riots people! You know the guy that the cops almost beat to death and they keep planting drugs on him. yah i celebrate tht day every year! Good Times........... Good Times. *remenices on the tipping over of cars and the torching of buildings*
Well im done daydreaming oh well maby next time l8r.

     17 November 2001, 02:37 GMT

Re: Re: Re: Fire causes downtime
Josh Susmarski  Account Info

Yea that is so weird. last time i walked by a clock it was 6:39. Scary how clocks tell what time it is when you look at them, maybe they are a doorway to a paralell dimension or something... (LOL)

     14 November 2001, 02:44 GMT

Re: Re: Re: Re: Fire causes downtime
lord_nightrose Account Info
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every now and then, my clock reads 6:66.

     14 November 2001, 07:04 GMT


Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Fire causes downtime
Peter Martijn Kuipers  Account Info

It's broken.
Buy a bew one ;-)

     14 November 2001, 07:37 GMT


Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Fire causes downtime
lord_nightrose Account Info
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And my alarm clock doesn't play music. It just makes weird demonic voice sounds, and fire shoots out of it, and it tells me to hurt people.

     14 November 2001, 23:25 GMT


Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Fire causes downtime
lord_nightrose Account Info
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By the way, does anyone know where I can get a Bew clock? They sound fun.

     16 November 2001, 23:37 GMT


Re: Re: Re: Re: Fire causes downtime
lord_nightrose Account Info
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is that a bad thing?

     14 November 2001, 07:04 GMT


Re: Re: Re: Fire causes downtime
S. G. Account Info
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Is the clock digital or analog? If it's analog, try winding it up or changing the batteries or making sure it's plugged in or something.


Seventeen's my lucky number because there was a time when I could swear I saw and heard it everywhere, and it just sort of stuck with me. Nothing major has happened on any seventeenth as far as I know, save for the Northridge earthquake (1/17/94) and the O.J. Simpson low-speed chase (6/17/94). But these were both before seventeen became my lucky number, and before I had started noticing it.

     15 November 2001, 03:36 GMT


Re: Re: Re: Re: Fire causes downtime
lord_nightrose Account Info
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Famous birthdays on the 17th:

17 - Jan - 1989 Yvonne Zima
17 - Jan - 1971 Kid Rock
17 - Jan - 1962 Jim Carrey
17 - Jan - 1959 Susanna Hoffs
17 - Jan - 1949 Andy Kaufman
17 - Jan - 1942 Muhammad Ali
17 - Jan - 1939 Maury Povich
17 - Jan - 1934 Shari Lewis
17 - Jan - 1931 James Earl Jones
17 - Jan - 1928 Vidal Sassoon
17 - Jan - 1927 Eartha Kitt
17 - Jan - 1922 Betty White
17 - Jan - 1899 Al Capone
17 - Jan - 1884 Mack Sennett
17 - Jan - 1820 Anne Bronte
17 - Jan - 1706 Ben Franklin
17 - Feb - 1981 Joseph Gordon-Levitt
17 - Feb - 1974 Jerry O'Connell
17 - Feb - 1974 Bryan White
17 - Feb - 1972 Billie Joe Armstrong
17 - Feb - 1972 Denise Richards
17 - Feb - 1963 Michael Jordan
17 - Feb - 1954 Rene Russo
17 - Feb - 1936 Jim Brown
17 - Feb - 1934 Alan Bates
17 - Feb - 1925 Hal Holbrook
17 - Feb - 1914 Arthur Kennedy
17 - Feb - 1908 Red Barber
17 - Mar - 1973 Caroline Corr
17 - Mar - 1972 Mia Hamm
17 - Mar - 1964 Rob Lowe
17 - Mar - 1960 Arye Gross
17 - Mar - 1955 Gary Sinise
17 - Mar - 1951 Kurt Russell
17 - Mar - 1949 Patrick Duffy
17 - Mar - 1944 John Sebastian
17 - Mar - 1941 Paul Kantner
17 - Mar - 1938 Rudolf Nureyev
17 - Mar - 1919 Nat "King" Cole
17 - Mar - 1918 Mercedes McCambridge
17 - Mar - 1902 Bobby Jones
17 - Mar - 1895 Shemp Howard
17 - Apr - 1974 Victoria Addams
17 - Apr - 1951 Olivia Hussey
17 - Apr - 1923 Harry Reasoner
17 - Apr - 1918 William Holden
17 - Apr - 1894 Nikita Khrushchev
17 - May - 1987 Tahj Mowry
17 - May - 1974 Andrea Corr
17 - May - 1970 Jordan Knight
17 - May - 1965 Trent Reznor
17 - May - 1961 Enya
17 - May - 1956 Sugar Ray Leonard
17 - May - 1956 Bob Saget
17 - May - 1936 Dennis Hopper
17 - May - 1911 Maureen O'Sullivan
17 - May - 1902 Ayatollah Khomeini
17 - Jun - 1980 Venus Williams
17 - Jun - 1965 Dan Jansen
17 - Jun - 1951 Joe Piscopo
17 - Jun - 1946 Barry Manilow
17 - Jun - 1945 Art Bell
17 - Jun - 1943 Newt Gingrich
17 - Jun - 1904 Ralph Bellamy
17 - Jun - 1898 M.C. Escher
17 - Jun - 1882 Igor Stravinsky
17 - Jul - 1952 David Hasselhoff
17 - Jul - 1952 Phoebe Snow
17 - Jul - 1935 Diahann Carroll
17 - Jul - 1934 Donald Sutherland
17 - Jul - 1917 Phyllis Diller
17 - Jul - 1912 Art Linkletter
17 - Jul - 1899 James Cagney
17 - Jul - 1889 Erle Stanley Gardner
17 - Aug - 1970 Jim Courier
17 - Aug - 1969 Donnie Wahlberg
17 - Aug - 1960 Sean Penn
17 - Aug - 1943 Robert De Niro
17 - Aug - 1926 Jiang Zemin
17 - Aug - 1920 Maureen O'Hara
17 - Aug - 1892 Mae West
17 - Aug - 1786 Davy Crockett
17 - Sep - 1970 Mark Brunell
17 - Sep - 1951 Cassandra "Elvira" Peterson
17 - Sep - 1948 John Ritter
17 - Sep - 1935 Ken Kesey
17 - Sep - 1931 Anne Bancroft
17 - Sep - 1928 Roddy McDowall
17 - Oct - 1974 Eminem
17 - Oct - 1971 Chris Kirkpatrick
17 - Oct - 1963 Norm MacDonald
17 - Oct - 1958 Alan Jackson
17 - Oct - 1950 Howard Rollins
17 - Oct - 1948 Margot Kidder
17 - Oct - 1948 George Wendt
17 - Oct - 1938 Evel Knievel
17 - Oct - 1930 Jimmy Breslin
17 - Oct - 1921 Tom Poston
17 - Oct - 1920 Montgomery Clift
17 - Oct - 1918 Rita Hayworth
17 - Oct - 1915 Arthur Miller
17 - Oct - 1905 Jean Arthur
17 - Oct - 1893 Spring Byington
17 - Nov - 1980 Isaac Hanson
17 - Nov - 1977 Laura Wilkinson
17 - Nov - 1960 RuPaul
17 - Nov - 1944 Danny DeVito
17 - Nov - 1944 Lorne Michaels
17 - Nov - 1944 Tom Seaver
17 - Nov - 1943 Lauren Hutton
17 - Nov - 1942 Martin Scorsese
17 - Nov - 1938 Gordon Lightfoot
17 - Nov - 1925 Rock Hudson
17 - Nov - 1901 Lee Strasberg
17 - Dec - 1986 Vanessa Zima
17 - Dec - 1958 Mike Mills
17 - Dec - 1930 Bob Guccione
17 - Dec - 1929 William Safire
17 - Dec - 1894 Arthur Fiedler

     16 November 2001, 19:10 GMT


Re: Re: Fire causes downtime
lord_nightrose Account Info
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And exactly what the hell is this supposed to mean? Does it relate to *anything*?

     14 November 2001, 02:06 GMT


Re: Re: Re: Fire causes downtime
JoelThePenguin  Account Info

agrees

     15 November 2001, 04:11 GMT


My Birthday
ooosadface

My birthday is June 29! :)

     20 November 2001, 21:55 GMT

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