Net closes on conger cuddling
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A fishing town has banned the sport of conger cuddling after an animal activist complained.
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Falls off the internet the best place to go for something awful - is recovering from Domain Name Server problems yesterday that left the site unaccessible for many users.â¦
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The Net's a lonelier place for users of PayPal and MSN Instant Messenger. Blame a software glitch and a suspected virus.
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With what shall I Twitter my daily minutia!? Amazon Web Services was struck by a temporary outage today, dragging the thousands of web sites which rely on its hosted storage down with it.â¦
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A major outage is affecting many Skype users' ability to log on to the network and send IMs. The company is mum, but some pin the blame on a series of Microsoft updates released yesterday.
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Google Outage on Major US ISP There was apparently a major (or minor, depending on how you look at it) Google outage on Tuesday which &#8216;blacked out&#8217; parts of the North East US and the Comcast Online ISP. The outage, which effected many in the Boston area, blacked out usage of all Google properties, including Gmail, Google [...]
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NEW YORK -- One of the web&#39;s most popular file-sharing sites has shut down less than a week after Hollywood announced a flurry of lawsuits against operators of such internet servers.
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By ERYL CRUMP  COUNTRYSIDE bosses last night accused quadbike-riding cockle fishermen of damaging an internationally important nature reserve.   Countryside Council of Wales (CCW) officials said the cockle beds at Traeth Lafan, on the Menai Strait, near Bangor, should be closed.
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There's a big yellow bar on the Twitter home page today saying it will be down for maintenence betw 10AM and 10PM today. I haven't heard any grumbling about this, but it's worth a bit of a grumble. What other basic form of communication goes down for 12 hours at a time? What if the web went offline for 12 hours at a time? It's unthinkable, because the web is built on the Internet and is decentralized and redundant. A single router or server can go down for a few hours, days or forever, and the web keeps on tickin.  Same with email. If Gmail started having twelve-hour planned outages, as much as I like Gmail, I'd switch. I can't be without email for any extended period of time.  Okay, let's give the guys at Twitter credit -- they stopped being flip about Twitter taking naps or showers. No one likes jokes when a line of communication is down. Now I'd like them to take another step. Assuming these long outages are really necessary, explain to us what they're for. I can take a guess -- something about their database needs changing, and all the data in all the files must be processed to implement the change. Any updates made while such a process is running would be lost, so the server must be shut off. But this is just a guess.  Another guess -- maybe they've hired a scaling expert who needs to make one final major adjustment before these outages are a thing of the past? No one would want to make such a promise, that's offering too much temptation to Dr Murphy, but that would be good news. Maybe Twitter is getting on to solid ground, finally.  It's fairly amazing that there isn't a viable Twitter clone out there yet. I'd also like to see something much more decentralized, based on static files, available to any Twitter-like system. It doesn't seem that far out of reach. With all the scaling troubles Twitter has had it's surprising that there haven't yet been any entrepreneurs willing to enter the space as competition to Twitter.  Users and developers are learning first-hand why centralized systems are so fragile. I'm sure they're doing a heroic job at Twitter, the best they can with what they have, but it's not good enough when the service takes a 12-hour break while many of the humans that depend on it are awake and working.
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By Cindy Krischer Goodman, The Miami Herald  Mar. 7--Last Monday morning my e-mail shut down, crashed, kaput. I deleted and deleted, but it wasn't enough to make a difference. As the day went on, my blood pressure shot up. The cause of the crash was in-box overload.
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Keep your distance. Avoid eye contact.  And even if it looks cute, never hug a Swiss cow.
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TelecityRedbus suffers power failure TelecityRedbus's colocation centre on Marsh Wall in London's Docklands has apparently suffered a power failure and back-up generators have not kicked in.â¦
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Relationships in the information age work best when you exercise restraint and courtesy. Especially after you break up. Commentary by Regina Lynn.
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Plans to have large numbers of employees work remotely in the event of an influenza pandemic could fall apart if Internet traffic reaches bandwidth-choking levels, business continuity planners say.
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BUFFALO, N.Y. - She's a 200-pound-plus hugging machine, but her affection comes with a price. Police are warning men about the &quot;Hugging Bandit,&quot; who heartily embraces men coming out of downtown bars and leaves them wallet-less. Dozens of men say they have been victims.
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The operators of Suprnova.org apologize to the service's users and quietly pull the plug. The shutdown follows hot on the heels of Hollywood's legal moves against BitTorrent tracker servers.
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Travel: News that Facebook's Scrabulous may be shut down is being met with dismay by one Lakeland hotel