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Re: Friday Dinner and the absence of Dave
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Mon, 16 Sep 2002 23:54:46 GMT
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In lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, David Koudys writes:

Dave K.

At 4:54 p.m. today, I was shutting dowm my laptop, settling myself down to
another week of Windsor not being connected--after all, I was on the phone
the entire day with a variety of different companies and services...

At 4:55 p.m. the branch manager calls me up and says, 'Hey Dave, thanks for
fixing the e-mail problem...'

Huh?

It turns out that the local telco (Bell) showed up, swapped out a wire at
the telephone pole, and all problems went away.

So what was it?

Network problem.

So it was a physical layer problem and not a virtual 1, 2, or 3 layer (boy
did I learn lots this week... ;) )

So there you are...

Dave K



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  Re: Friday Dinner and the absence of Dave
 
(...) Oh, you want to talk network problems eh? We (the Interactive Media Lab, home of Peach and other such things) moved into the brand new, $104 million Bahen Center for IT at the University last month. Since then, while all of our MIE powered (...) (22 years ago, 17-Sep-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)

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  Friday Dinner and the absence of Dave
 
So here I am at work in Burlington at 10:55 a.m., looking forward to dinner at Mels. However, by 11:00 a.m. on Friday the 13th (go figure), I was on the road to Windsor, Ontario (3 hours away). It seems that the issues the branch was strugging with (...) (22 years ago, 14-Sep-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)

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