Network Status
Thursday, December 14 2006
11:25am Current Inbound Bandwidth usage: 87.1%, Average: 71.4%
11:25am Current Outbound Bandwidth usage: 11.7%, Average: 11.4%
QOTD:
-- It is fruitless to become lachrymose over precipitately departed
lacteal fluid.
Wednesday, December 13 2006
9:20am Current Inbound Bandwidth usage: 46.3%, Average: 68.6%
9:20am Current Outbound Bandwidth usage: 8.2%, Average: 10.7%
QOTD:
Which is worse: ignorance or apathy? Who knows? Who cares?
Tuesday, December 12 2006
8:55am Current Inbound Bandwidth usage: 89.7%, Average: 71.1%
8:55am Current Outbound Bandwidth usage: 9.4%, Average: 11.4%
QOTD:
-- Surveillance should precede saltation.
Monday, December 11 2006
10:40am Current Inbound Bandwidth usage: 90.5%, Average: 64.6%
10:40am Current Outbound Bandwidth usage: 14.3%, Average: 10.6%
Welcome Back!
Due to the power outage, the network was unavailable all day Friday and Saturday morning. When the generators had sufficiently charged the UPS batteries and were adjusted for compatibility, we were able to bring most of our services back up at 1pm on Saturday. Once full power was restored to campus at 1am Sunday morning, it was safe to bring up the rest of our services.
If anything is still not working, please let Information Technology know.
QOTD:
curtation, n.:
The enforced compression of a string in the fixed-length field environment.The problem of fitting extremely variable-length strings such as names, addresses, and item descriptions into fixed-length records is no trivial matter. Neglect of the subtle art of curtation has probably alienated more people than any other aspect of data processing. You order Mozart's "Don Giovanni" from your record club, and they invoice you $24.95 for MOZ DONG. The witless mapping of the sublime onto the ridiculous! Equally puzzling is the curtation that produces the same eight characters, THE BEST, whether you order "The Best of Wagner", "The Best of Schubert", or "The Best of the Turds". Similarly, wine lovers buying from computerized wineries twirl their glasses, check their delivery notes, and inform their friends, "A rather innocent, possibly overtruncated CAB SAUV 69 TAL." The squeezing of fruit into 10 columns has yielded such memorable obscenities as COX OR PIP. The examples cited are real, and the curtational methodology which produced them is still with us.
MOZ DONG n.
Curtation of Don Giovanni by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Lorenzo da Ponte, as performed by the computerized billing ensemble of the Internat'l Preview Society, Great Neck (sic), N.Y.-- Stan Kelly-Bootle, "The Devil's DP Dictionary"
Thursday, December 7 2006
10:40am Current Inbound Bandwidth usage: 87.2%, Average: 73.0%
10:40am Current Outbound Bandwidth usage: 16.5%, Average: 11.2%
QOTD:
-- Pulchritude possesses solely cutaneous profundity.
Wednesday, December 6 2006
10:45am Current Inbound Bandwidth usage: 90.2%, Average: 72.5%
10:45am Current Outbound Bandwidth usage: 12.9%, Average: 12.0%
QOTD:
When does summertime come to Minnesota, you ask? Well, last year, I
think it was a Tuesday.
Tuesday, December 5 2006
1:55pm Current Inbound Bandwidth usage: 92.2%, Average: 72.9%
1:55pm Current Outbound Bandwidth usage: 13.0%, Average: 15.1%
QOTD:
blithwapping:
Using anything BUT a hammer to hammer a nail into the wall, such as shoes, lamp bases, doorstops, etc.-- "Sniglets", Rich Hall and Friends
Monday, December 4 2006
10:25am Current Inbound Bandwidth usage: 89.2%, Average: 58.9%
10:25am Current Outbound Bandwidth usage: 17.9%, Average: 10.5%
QOTD:
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new
discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' (I found it!) but 'That's funny ...'
Friday, December 1 2006
12:30pm Current Inbound Bandwidth usage: 89.3%, Average: 73.6%
12:30pm Current Outbound Bandwidth usage: 13.7%, Average: 13.3%
QOTD:
-- Eschew the implement of correction and vitiate the scion.