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Submission + - Tmobile DATA Centers Down? (hauntedcincinnati.com) 1

Submitted by

Randy M. Karshner

on Thursday September 13, 2007 @11:37PM

Randy M. Karshner writes: "Tmobiles Data Centers from the Mississippi East all seem to have went down around 7pm EST, With millions of customers they have managed to keep this rather quiet so far wouldn't you say? I first noticed about 7 when all text messages stopped, even those sent to my own hand set. A quick call to Tmobile confimed this and that the first ETA they had was hopeful to have it fixed by 10pm EST. Looks like they are two plus hours over and still climbing. Why no coverage on this?"

Submission + - Led Zepplin Effect (guardian.co.uk)

Submitted by

jd

on Thursday September 13, 2007 @07:27PM

jd writes: "According to the web administrators handling the upcoming Led Zepplin reunion concert in tribute to Ahmet Ertegun, over twenty million people attempted to log onto the site to buy tickets. Those familiar with the Slashdot Effect can guess what happened next. The entire Pipex backbone, which supplied the website with connectivity, disintegrated. Not just one upstream pipe, mind you, the entire backbone frazzled under the impact. At the time of writing this, the site for booking the tickets is reachable. Geeks are warned in advance that there are no usage statistics or bandwidth consumption monitors on the websites."

Submission + - Beer Chugging World Record Holder (ultimatebeerquest.com)

Submitted by LFCNZ on Thursday September 13, 2007 @07:17PM

LFCNZ writes: http://ultimatebeerquest.com/2007/09/13/beer-chugging-world-record-holder/

Submission + - Sun changes stock symbol to JAVA

Submitted by _damnit_ on Thursday August 23, 2007 @01:58PM

_damnit_ writes: The wounded ship that was once SUNW is now JAVA. CEO Jonathan Schwartz announced on his blog that they will change their NASDAQ stock symbol to try and capitalize on the success (?) of Java. For a long time people have been waiting for Sun to monetize Java. Having JAVA as one of NASDAQ's most active doesn't really address that issue but Jonathan is thinking outside the box I guess. Now if they could just gain revenue they could stop laying off staff.

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