In article <66sr2159ir71d86gj90obgevdig7qku2jh@4ax.com>, f/fgeorge  <*> wrote:

On Tue, 08 Mar 2005 18:35:18 +0000, James de Lurker

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Berkeley has encourged this all along, well ever since they had some
major outages,

Actually, I think they were very reluctant. Historically, they've 
wanted to keep tight control of WU distribution.

              someone actually stole the power cable at the Campus
because of the copper wire! They dug up the wire outside and stole
part of it!! Brave souls if you ask me, it was still energized at the
time!

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No, they cut and stole the fiber network cable to the SSL; it was 
bundled in with no-longer-used copper communication cables in a
tunnel between the SSL and main campus. Took almost a week to get
the fiber re-pulled and connected.

Fortunantly, I had a weeks' worth of WU in SETI Queue...


Gary

-- 
Gary Heston  gheston@hiwaay.net 

Windows is like SUVs; a bad idea, poorly implemented, unsafe, with a
lot of intept users, but a fact of life we have to put up with.