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kman42 · Feb 7, 2004, 09:45 PM

cnn, msnbc, nytimes websites don't work. google news works. spymac doesn't, slashdot doesn't. macsurfer and maccn do.

Anyone else?

kman

kman42 · Feb 7, 2004, 09:47 PM

broken: abcnews, motherjones

working: bbc news

East coast blown up?

rjenkinson · Feb 7, 2004, 09:47 PM

uh, no. all of those sites are working for me... nothing to see here folks, move along.

-r.

KP* · Feb 7, 2004, 09:49 PM

I can verify the east coast hasn't blown up, and the NYTimes website is working for me.

macvillage.net · Feb 7, 2004, 09:54 PM

Sounds like network problems.

DO a traceroute, and I'd bet you'd find your problem(s) there.

Kenneth · Feb 7, 2004, 10:06 PM

May be Howard Dean shut them down.

John C. Smith · Feb 7, 2004, 10:07 PM

Originally posted by Kenneth:
May be Howard Dean shut them down.

Howard who?

Saddam H. · Feb 7, 2004, 10:15 PM

Originally posted by kman42:
cnn, msnbc, nytimes websites don't work. google news works. spymac doesn't, slashdot doesn't. macsurfer and maccn do.

Anyone else?

kman

the revolution has begun.

oVeRmInD911 · Feb 7, 2004, 10:20 PM

Topic: Did half the world just go black?

Yes, and if the theory is correct, half the world will never go back.

Umbrella · Feb 7, 2004, 10:26 PM

KMart wrote:
cnn, msnbc, nytimes websites don't work. google news works. spymac doesn't, slashdot doesn't. macsurfer and maccn do.

Anyone else?

kman

The world is half black
because half the world
is night, and half of the
other
world is night. The other
half is day/night.

kman42 · Feb 7, 2004, 10:30 PM

Turns out that my iDisk was synching and hogging all my bandwidth. Odd, but it seems that Safari just didn't bother loading some pages under those conditions. Maybe the successful ones were cached. Hmmm...

Anyway, my iDisk finished syncing and then everything network-related stopped working. I did the old unplug the DSL modem trick and now we're back in gear.

Sorry to do a war or the worlds on you all

kman

Developer · Feb 7, 2004, 10:36 PM

Originally posted by Umbrella:

The world is half black
because half the world
is night, and half of the
other
world is night. The other
half is day/night.

Wow, the world has three halves!

Sealobo · Feb 7, 2004, 10:39 PM

Originally posted by Developer:
Wow, the world has three halves!

Read again...

Umbrella · Feb 7, 2004, 10:40 PM

Originally posted by Developer:
Wow, the world has three halves!

Read deep.

Read deep.

There are worlds where there
is only one half.

Our world has one half of night,
and one half of two halves.

Daddy-o

stevesnj · Feb 7, 2004, 11:02 PM

Many sites I know are down...something bad is happening

Kenneth · Feb 7, 2004, 11:08 PM

Originally posted by kman42:
Turns out that my iDisk was synching and hogging all my bandwidth. Odd, but it seems that Safari just didn't bother loading some pages under those conditions. Maybe the successful ones were cached. Hmmm...

Anyway, my iDisk finished syncing and then everything network-related stopped working. I did the old unplug the DSL modem trick and now we're back in gear.

Sorry to do a war or the worlds on you all

kman

I can't upload stuff to my iDisk as well...
man..

Umbrella · Feb 7, 2004, 11:10 PM

MacOSRumors isn't loading for me... the **** has hit the fan. all i can do is pray that nothing disastrous has happened in america

Chemmy · Feb 8, 2004, 01:56 PM

Originally posted by oVeRmInD911:
Yes, and if the theory is correct, half the world will never go back.

Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha hahahahahahahahahaha.

bbcclo · Feb 8, 2004, 05:19 PM

i totally thought this thread was going to have something to do with the words "hizzle, and shizzle" becoming mainstream.

I swear i've heard that in at least 3 commercials earlier this year.

Eriamjh · Feb 8, 2004, 11:32 PM

Have mercy on our souls!

King Bob On The Cob · Feb 9, 2004, 12:03 AM

Once you go black you never go back...

CheesePuff · Feb 9, 2004, 12:28 AM

You know you're probably right, I was at the mall the other day and I'd say half of everyone I walked past were black. Never noticed it until now.

spiky_dog · Feb 9, 2004, 12:45 AM

there was definitely something amiss today. i noticed it when www.fredmeyer.com (for you east coasters: a prominent grocery store chain) was unreachable both from my computer in portland and from a box i can ssh into in boston.

Jaey · Feb 9, 2004, 12:45 AM

Originally posted by Umbrella:
Read deep.

Read deep.

There are worlds where there
is only one half.

Our world has one half of night,
and one half of two halves.

Whoa, that's a bit too deep for me.

Zimmerman · Feb 9, 2004, 01:31 AM

I dunno but I was having inordinate difficulty connecting to anything between afternoon Saturday and around noon thirty today. It was like all the DNS servers dissapeared.

Spliffdaddy · 05:01 AM

oopsie.

Project Slingblade was undergoing development testing. It may have saturated the internet for a few hours.

I'll be more careful in the future.

(and a fortunate bunch of Mac users are among the first to witness it)

Twilly Spree · Feb 9, 2004, 06:20 AM

Gaaaaaaaah MY EYES!!!

Very Jules Verne of you Spliffdaddy. Neat as a movie prop, but I'd go nuts with something like that in the living room. Or the wife.

Twilly Spree · Feb 9, 2004, 07:47 AM

As for the east coast, Florida is still here. :/

Spheric Harlot · Feb 9, 2004, 09:46 AM

Originally posted by Twilly Spree:
Very Jules Verne of you Spliffdaddy. Neat as a movie prop, but I'd go nuts with something like that in the living room. Or the wife.

It does wives, too?

I was wondering what all that pipe was for...

The Ginger Rat · Feb 9, 2004, 05:34 PM

Originally posted by CheesePuff:
You know you're probably right, I was at the mall the other day and I'd say half of everyone I walked past were black. Never noticed it until now.

What did their other halves' look like?

ryaxnb · Feb 10, 2004, 12:57 AM

I had trouble connecting to MozillaZine today...
If half the world went black, did that mean they started using BBX Omega�?

Kenneth · Feb 10, 2004, 01:22 AM

All my friends couldn't get into the MSN Massager Network..

Hey.. Windows Server 2003 can't handle it too
http://messenger.msn.com/Status.aspx?product=wm

L E · Feb 10, 2004, 01:26 AM

Originally posted by Eriamjh:

Have mercy on our souls!

chris v · Feb 10, 2004, 01:45 AM

Originally posted by Spliffdaddy:
oopsie.

Project Slingblade was undergoing development testing. It may have saturated the internet for a few hours.

I'll be more careful in the future.

(and a fortunate bunch of Mac users are among the first to witness it)

What... the...

Wow. Just... wow.

CV

quandarry · Feb 10, 2004, 02:01 AM

gore is taking back the internet!

Spliffdaddy · Feb 10, 2004, 03:01 AM

Originally posted by chris v:
What... the...

Wow. Just... wow.

CV

You haven't seen 10% of the wow.

They are merely unpolished skeletons in 'early development' stage.

There are several modules which incorporate hardware that is, let's say, extremely overqualified for its job... a phase-change (CFC-free) chiller, a 1500w Lambda DC powersupply with a 1960's nixie tube voltage display (cool factor multiplies by ten when nixie tubes are used), and a CPU module that houses the PC hardware, waterblock and cascaded (stacked) TECs. These modules interconnect to form what will be the most insane overclocking experience on the planet.

L E · Feb 10, 2004, 03:31 AM

That looks like something out of a nightmare only a plumber could conceive of.

Hell, I bet once you load it up with parts, all it'd take is a swift kick to have the insides go to ****.

phoenixboy · Feb 10, 2004, 03:42 AM

Originally posted by Spliffdaddy:
You haven't seen 10% of the wow...

is that what you are going to need to run "longhorn"?

MindFad · Feb 10, 2004, 03:45 AM

Have I finally succeeded in breaking the Internet?

wataru · Feb 10, 2004, 04:25 AM

I was having trouble earlier today, but things seem to be ok now.

Some of my frustration was getting Firefox... that was probably unrelated, though.