Scheduled outages - An electrical mystery

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Comcast Outages Prevent Comcast From
Commenting On Comcast Outages

Comcast Outages Prevent Comcast From
Commenting On Comcast Outages 04/14/2005 01:21 PM
Last week, we noted that Comcast was having widespread outage problems, which they chalk ed up to "scheduled maintenance", even though no one was actually informed of said schedule ahead of time. It turns out that schedule is pretty crowded, because all week long, there have been continued reports of recurring outages all across the Comcast network. Comcast, of course, continues to be pretty much silent on the issue, leaving its increasingly fed up call center staff to deal with incredibly angry customers who feel they're getting no information at all. How hard is it to admit that they screwed up and they're working on fixing the problem? Instead of chalking it up to bogus scheduled maintenance or pretending there's nothing wrong, admit what the problem is and give people real updates. People would still be unhappy, but at least they'd feel like the company wasn't ignoring them. Of course, maybe they can't do that because Comcast staffers don't have any internet access either...

Outages

Outages 06/22/2004 10:41 AM
Yesterday, one of my DSL providers ran afoul of a backhoe which severed its OC3. The bad news was that a bunch of customers, me included, learned that we had no redundant path to the backbone -- at least not through this provider. (This is one reason why I maintain a separate circuit through a different provider; that one was unaffected.) The good news was that the fiber got spliced together very quickly, and the provider was really, really sorry and really, really proactive. I got calls from three people alerting me to the outage, and calls from four other people notifying me that it was cleared. In a situation like that, there's no such thing as overcommunicating. ...

Outages hit Google search

Outages hit Google search 07/26/2004 12:46 PM
Visitors to the search engine site receive server error messages Monday morning.

Second Night of Outages Hit Comcast

Second Night of Outages Hit Comcast 04/14/2005 09:22 AM
Comcast High Speed Internet subscribers again found themselves without Internet service for the second night in a row and the third time in two weeks as "server problems" plagued the cable provider once again. The latest round of troubles is causing several subscribers to begin to look elsewhere for broadband Internet service.

"this electrical site"

"this electrical site" 01/19/2004 07:16 AM

Should Network Outages Remain Secret?

Should Network Outages Remain Secret? 06/24/2004 03:07 PM
While some federal officials have been bugging companies to report network outages and security breaches, now others are suddenly worried that making any such info public would be a recipe for disaster as it would let "bad people" in on too much information. Thus, the new plan is not to make the info public, but that companies should report it to an organization that will tell the government, but otherwise keep it secret -- as if they believe this will actually keep the information private. Basically, the new plan is to hope for security by obscurity while still letting the "people who matter" in on the secrets. That seems like the real recipe for disaster. The info won't really be secret, and companies will have less incentive to really fix security and network problems.

Comcast Reports Three Outages In A Week

Comcast Reports Three Outages In A Week 04/14/2005 09:48 PM
Speaking for myself and the amazing amount of wasted time Comcast has caused me, I have no interest in giving them a single ounce of sympathy or understanding. They just need to get it together….

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Operational Outages for Power Generation

Operational Outages for Power Generation 02/17/2004 11:55 AM
marcus evans Feb 17 2004 3:19PM GMT

Internet Solutions explains outages

Internet Solutions explains outages 08/16/2004 10:39 AM
Computer Weekly Aug 16 2004 2:05PM GMT

Electrical (Standards) Interference

Electrical (Standards) Interference 04/02/2005 03:25 PM

HomePlu g AV is near--but so are three other standards: Frustrating, isn't it, that just when you hear the news that the electrical networking standard HomePlug is about to be revised from version 1.0 to AV (11 Mbps to 200 Mbps!) that three other standards could split the marketplace and thus doom it in the same way that the excellent HomeRF standard sunk beneath the waters by failing to reach the market fast enough with speedy bandwidth.

PC World reports that HomePlug AV will be ratified in June and be built into settop boxes and other devices. With a raw 200 Mbps design, it should deliver at least 100 Mbps of actual net throughput, enough to stream multiple video signals across your home's wiring. It's also designed to work with Broadband over Powerline (BPL) equipment, although I'm finding that increasingly unlikely to be deployed in the U.S. based on power utility statements. (Anti-municipal telecom/broadband bills would make it impossible for private utilities to deploy BPL, too.)

The United Powerline Association unfortunately has a competing spec that won't interoperate. And then HomePlug has a low-power control protocol they're working on as does Z-Wave.

The article unfortunately quotes the New Millennium Research Council, a group that I have written about extensively here because of their parent company, Issue Dynamics, which is a PR firm that represents incumbent telco and cable operators. The NRMC is oddly 100-percent behind BPL, and if you look at Issue Dynamics's client list, you find that Edison Electric Institute and Virginia Power are represented in their client list; Pacific Gas & Electric was a former client.

So keep your scorecard straight: utilities offering broadband is a bad idea when they are owned by municipalities, but an entirely good idea when private companies own the utilities. And allowing municipal utilities to allow private companies to offer broadband over their electrical lines would be bad, too.

Electrical poltergeist strikes again

Electrical poltergeist strikes again 09/21/2004 10:49 PM
My one-month-old Thinkpad X40 needs a new motherboard. Yesterday, it stopped noticing what was plugged into its USB ports. Today it can't find its audio board. IBM has authorized the repair. This occurred while I was on the road, lending credence to the theory that my electrical problems are not due to bad wiring in my house but in fact stem from some sort of perturbance in my aura. Or possibly an electrolyte balance. Ultimately, I think, we have to blame it on Karl Rove. By the way, not having my laptop for the next few days is pretty much...

Sparks fly as BTo hit by electrical
fault

Sparks fly as BTo hit by electrical
fault 03/13/2003 10:23 AM
300,000 punters hit

Athens Wrestles to Avoid Phone Outages

Athens Wrestles to Avoid Phone Outages 08/12/2004 12:55 PM
AP via Daily Press Aug 12 2004 5:05PM GMT

New round of outages peeves some Comcast
users

New round of outages peeves some Comcast
users 04/14/2005 07:32 PM
Subscribers report slowdowns, problems viewing pages in third system breakdown in a week.

Feds urge secrecy over network outages

Feds urge secrecy over network outages 06/23/2004 10:36 PM

Comcast Internet outages rile users

Comcast Internet outages rile users 04/15/2005 12:18 PM
Philly.com - Fri Apr 15, 09:54 am GMT

Internet outages annoy Comcast customers

Internet outages annoy Comcast customers 04/15/2005 03:15 PM
San Jose Mercury News Apr 15 2005 6:22PM GMT

Born under a dark electrical cloud

Born under a dark electrical cloud 09/03/2004 04:41 PM
We arrived at my family's house in the Berkshires to discover that both phones and many of the lights are fried. Apparently, there was a lightning strike. Or maybe it's just my bad electrical mojo running ahead of me. So, I had to drive around with Netstumbler to find a working, open wifi hotspot in town. (Yay for free wifi.) It's gone this afternoon, though. So, I have 12 minutes remaining on the public Internet in the local library. Must type faster......

Electrical fuses help IBM chips heal
themselves

Electrical fuses help IBM chips heal
themselves 08/02/2004 01:36 PM
IBM Corp. believes its new eFuse technology brings the company one step closer to autonomic computing by allowing chips to sense their own flaws and reconfigure themselves without outside intervention, the company announced Friday.

Game for morons who like electrical
shocks

Game for morons who like electrical
shocks 01/06/2004 01:15 PM
The Johnson Smith Company used to sell all sorts of wonderful novelties, contraptions, and magic tricks (read Stefan Jone's description of an old copy of the catalog), but it underwent an unfortunate Archie McPhee-esque revamp in recent years.

One of Johnson Smith's new products is a Russian Roulette style game for four players. Each player sticks his finger in a hole and "when the sound stops, someone gets the shock of their life -- and everyone else gets a big laugh!" Link (Thanks, Tom!)

Railguns and other lethal electrical
experiments

Railguns and other lethal electrical
experiments 11/18/2003 06:59 AM
PowerLabs is where a serious electricity geek keeps track of his many railgun, disk-shooter, Tesla coil and related projects, documenting them with video, stills, blueprints and tutorials. Lethal fun! Link (Thanks, h1kari!)

Empowering PCs to handle surges, outages
a wise move

Empowering PCs to handle surges, outages
a wise move 06/10/2004 03:05 AM
Baltimore Sun Jun 10 2004 7:53AM GMT

'Hardware problem' to blame for HSBC
transaction outages

'Hardware problem' to blame for HSBC
transaction outages 01/04/2005 01:07 PM
Computer Weekly Jan 4 2005 5:16PM GMT

Internet outages annoy Comcast customers
(SiliconValley.com)

Internet outages annoy Comcast customers
(SiliconValley.com) 04/16/2005 12:49 PM
SiliconValley.com - Cable provider Comcast said Thursday that it was working on technical problems that caused a series of outages in recent days for many of the 7 million people who subscribe to its high-speed Internet service.

Severed cables lead to phone, Internet
outages

Severed cables lead to phone, Internet
outages 09/21/2004 06:53 AM
Semissourian.com - Tue Sep 21, 08:21 am GMT

Outages in Internet service annoy
Comcast customers

Outages in Internet service annoy
Comcast customers 04/15/2005 12:18 PM
Siliconvalley.com - Fri Apr 15, 10:37 am GMT

Spy Cameras that send video through your
electrical lines.

Spy Cameras that send video through your
electrical lines. 09/14/2004 03:50 AM
New technology prevents your hidden camera video images from being transmitted across the neighborhood. Faced with the challenge of confining a standard video signal to a single residence, Covert Systems Group, LLC is implementing patented video technology to shroud signals and protect the users privacy. [PRWEB Sep 14, 2004]

Electrical technology patent is ticket
to riches

Electrical technology patent is ticket
to riches 02/10/2004 02:36 AM
The New Zealand Herald Feb 9 2004 7:47PM GMT

Electrical Signals Key to Culturing
Heart Tissue

Electrical Signals Key to Culturing
Heart Tissue 12/19/2004 02:53 PM

SMC bridges electrical system to
Ethernet for Mac users

SMC bridges electrical system to
Ethernet for Mac users 10/29/2003 03:24 AM
SMC Networks on Tuesday introduced a new line of EZ Connect networking devices based on HomePlug 1.0 technology, and claims to be the only vendor offering a Mac-compatible HomePlug solution. HomePlug eschews conventional networking or wireless technology to transmit data over household electrical networks.

Village considering Internet access
through electrical outlets

Village considering Internet access
through electrical outlets 06/11/2004 08:01 AM
AP via Newsday Jun 11 2004 12:20PM GMT

NTT uses human body's electrical field
as a data bus

NTT uses human body's electrical field
as a data bus 04/06/2005 05:27 PM
Mark Frauenfelder: I wrote a piece for TheFeature about RedTacton, a personal area networking (PAN) technology that makes use of the electrical field that naturally surrounds the human body.

NTT believes there are many uses for RedTacton beyond being a replacement for certain Bluetooth or IR applications. It could for example, be used as a kind of RFID. When you touch a door handle at a secure facility, the RedTacton transceiver would look at the ID number stored in the mobile device in your pocket and decide whether or not to let you in. Or a bottle of medicine might sound an alarm if you are not the person to whom the pills have been prescribed.

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Athens wrestles to avoid communications
outages as crowds arrive

Athens wrestles to avoid communications
outages as crowds arrive 08/12/2004 04:29 PM
SiliconValley.com Aug 12 2004 7:23PM GMT

International symposium on electrical,
electronic and computer engineering

International symposium on electrical,
electronic and computer engineering 12/09/2003 08:25 AM
Cordis Dec 9 2003 7:33AM ET

Some Lexmark, Dell Printers May Present
Electrical Hazard

Some Lexmark, Dell Printers May Present
Electrical Hazard 09/14/2004 06:45 PM
PC Magazine Sep 14 2004 10:44PM GMT

Multiple mozilla.org Service Outages
Planned for June 20th to 24th

Multiple mozilla.org Service Outages
Planned for June 20th to 24th 06/17/2005 07:23 PM

Saboteurs May Be Aiming at Electrical
and Water Sites as Summer Nears

Saboteurs May Be Aiming at Electrical
and Water Sites as Summer Nears 06/09/2004 05:47 AM
The sabotage of a power plant south of Baghdad raised new fears that insurgents were beginning to make targets of major sectors of the infrastructure.

5th WSEAS Int. Conf. on MATHEMATICAL
METHODS AND COMPUTATIONAL TECHNIQUES IN
ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING

5th WSEAS Int. Conf. on MATHEMATICAL
METHODS AND COMPUTATIONAL TECHNIQUES IN
ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING 11/10/2003 10:56 PM
NetLib Nov 8 2003 2:02PM ET

Watch Manufacturer Gears Product Line
Towards Electrical and Electronics
Tradesmen

Watch Manufacturer Gears Product Line
Towards Electrical and Electronics
Tradesmen 07/24/2004 02:22 AM
TechNote Time Watch Company is setting precedence by being the first manufacturer of informative wrist watches geared towards tradesmen in the electrical and electronics fields. Their initial product line consists of specialty analog wrist watches which incorporates Ohm’s law, power formulas and a resistor band chart, for AC or DC applications. [PRWEB Jul 24, 2004]
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